Overview

Clients turn to our Financial Services M&A practice for deal-savvy advisors who take a practical, commercial approach to and deliver best-in-class client service on M&A transactions of all sizes. Whether navigating intricate regulatory frameworks, structuring deals, or conducting due diligence, we work as trusted partners for clients seeking success in the dynamic world of financial services transactions.

What You Can Expect From Us

Knowledge. Deep experience in managing M&A deals involving financial products and services. Ability to anticipate and, when necessary, resolve critical issues in complex mergers and acquisitions.
Finance Focus. Part of a premier financial services law firm with vast experience working in all categories of lending and financial products and services and across jurisdictions.
Regulatory Strength. Top-tier capabilities in federal and state financial regulatory compliance and consumer finance matters as well as complementary regulatory capabilities in consumer finance, commercial finance, banking, asset management, and broker-dealer matters.
Access to Related Knowledge. Seamlessly work with Mayer Brown colleagues who are first-rate practitioners in fintech, tax, cybersecurity, and other areas routinely involved in financial services M&A transactions.

Asset Management

Asset managers and their investors rely on us to represent them on a wide range of transactions.

Asset managers acquiring/combining with other asset managers
Bank holding companies investing in/acquiring asset managers
Insurance companies investing in/acquiring asset managers
Non-financial buyers investing in/acquiring asset managers
Asset managers acquiring stakes in insurance businesses and assets
Asset managers acquiring fintech and other businesses and assets

Contacts: Joe Castelluccio and Reb Wheeler

Broker-Dealer

Banks / Depositories

Consumer Finance - Non-Mortgage

Consumer Finance - Mortgage

Clients leverage our deep understanding of the regulatory and operational challenges that mortgage M&A deals entail.

MSR/Loan Portfolios
Joint Ventures
Mortgage Originators, Brokers and Servicers
MSR/Consumer Loan Funds
BPL/RTL Loan Investments

Select Representations

Represented Lone Star Funds in the $1.675 billion sale of its portfolio company, Caliber Home Loans, Inc., to New Residential Investment Corp., combining two leading non-bank originators and servicers of mortgage loans.
Represented Redwood Trust, Inc., a leader in expanding access to housing for homebuyers and renters, in their $750 million strategic capital partnership with Canada Pension Plan Investment Board through subsidiaries of CPPIB Credit Investments Inc.
Represented the parent entities of Roosevelt Management Company LLC and Rushmore Loan Management Services LLC in the sale of Roosevelt and its subsidiaries to Mr. Cooper Group Inc. and a sale of the Rushmore residential mortgage servicing platform to Nationstar Mortgage, a Mr. Cooper subsidiary and one of the largest home loan servicers in the country.

Contact: Lauren Pryor

Commercial Finance

Payments

Digital Assets

Experience

Recent experience includes:

Represented Assured Guaranty Ltd. in the $429 million sale of its entire equity interest in Assured Investment Management LLC, the local investment management firm managing assets in hedge funds, private capital vehicles, single-investor funds and CLOs, to Sound Point Capital Management, L.P.
Represented Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce in its $5 billion acquisition of NASDAQ-listed Private-Bancorp, Inc. and its subsidiary The PrivateBank, a middle market commercial bank with $17.7 billion in assets.
Represented Envestnet in the acquisition of substantially all of the intellectual property assets of Apprise, LLC, a financial planning technology solutions provider, through Envestnet's wholly-owned subsidiary, Envestnet Financial Technologies, Inc.
Represented Finaro, a financial technology company engaged with payment processing and acquiring bank solutions, in its $575 million sale to Shift4 Payments, Inc.
Represented Fortress Investment Group in its acquisition of Guardian Asset Management, a leading investment advisor and provider of property management, inspection and repair services for REO properties.
Represented Global Atlantic Financial Company in the acquisition of eRESI Mortgage LLC, a mortgage funding platform that offers comprehensive private capital solutions to the residential mortgage market.
Represented IPFS Corporation in the acquisition of substantially all of the premium finance assets of various U.S. and Canadian subsidiaries of the H.W. Kaufman Group, a provider of insurance wholesale brokerage and underwriting services.
Represented Loan Star Funds in the $1.675 billion divestment of Caliber Home Loans to New Residential Investment Corp.
Represented the special committee of the board of directors of Oaktree Capital Group in the $4.7 billion acquisition by Brookfield Asset Management Inc. of a 62 percent interest in Oaktree.
Represented Ocwen Financial in its joint venture with Oaktree to launch a MSR investment vehicle with $250 million of expected investment capital.

Represented Redfin in its $135 million acquisition of Bay Equity.
Represented Redwood Trust, a leader in expanding access to housing for homebuyers and renters, in their $750 million strategic capital partnership with Canada Pension Plan Investment Board through subsidiaries of CPPIB Credit Investments Inc. The partnership consists of a newly formed $500 million asset joint venture and a $250 million corporate secured financing facility that CPP Investments is providing to Redwood. The joint venture will initially invest across the broad suite of Redwood's residential investor bridge and term loans, targeting more than $4 billion in total acquisitions.
Represented Redwood Trust in its $490 million acquisition of CoreVest American Finance Lender from Fortress.
Represented NASDAQ-listed TriState Capital Holdings, Inc., a bank holding company and parent of RIA Chartwell Investment Partners, in its acquisition by Raymond James for approximately $1.1 billion in cash and stock.
Represented Waterfall Asset Management in a multifaceted corporate transaction. A private equity vehicle managed by Waterfall and Atalaya Capital Management led a strategic investment in OnPoint Warranty Solutions, a rapidly growing insurtech, mobile solutions and warranty services company.
Represented Wells Fargo in its purchase from Seneca Mortgage of MSRs related to residential mortgage loans held by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac with aggregate balances in excess of $50 billion.