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Luigi L. De Ghenghi

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Luigi L. De Ghenghi

Partner
Financial Institutions
New York

Focuses on bank M&A and other bank transactions, and advises on financial regulatory matters including capital and liquidity issues and enhanced prudential standards.

Luigi’s practice focuses on bank M&A, strategic bank regulatory and financial reform advice, and capital markets transactions for U.S. and non-U.S. banks and other financial institutions. He advises on Basel III regulatory capital and liquidity issues, living wills, enhanced prudential standards and a wide variety of financial regulatory matters.

Luigi also advises U.S. and non-U.S. banks and other financial institutions on corporate governance and compliance matters, bank insolvency issues, government investigations and enforcement actions, cross-border collateral transactions, and clearance and settlement systems.

Chambers USA ranks Luigi in Band 1 for Financial Services Regulation: Banking (Compliance) and for Financial Institutions M&A. Law360 has recognized him as a “Banking MVP of the Year.”

Experience highlights

Luigi has advised financial institutions, private equity funds and investors in banks and investment banks on a variety of transactions and other matters including:

  • Eleven of the largest U.S. banks in making $30 billion in uninsured deposits into First Republic Bank
  • UBS on the acquisition of Credit Suisse, creating a business with more than $5 trillion in total invested assets
  • JPMorgan Chase in its acquisition of the substantial majority of assets and assumption of the deposits and certain other liabilities of First Republic Bank from the FDIC
  • Bank Leumi on its merger with Valley National Bancorp
  • JPMorgan Chase on its acquisition of a 40% ownership stake in C6 Bank
  • Morgan Stanley on its acquisition of Eaton Vance
  • Morgan Stanley on its merger with E*TRADE
  • Ameriprise Financial on the conversion of its trust company into a federal savings bank
  • GE Capital on the rescission of its nonbank SIFI designation, as well as various asset sales
  • Strategic Growth Bank on its merger of equals with Sunflower Bank, its spinoff of SG Capital Partners, and its acquisitions of Mile High Banks under section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code and New Mexico Banquest
  • C1 Financial on its merger with Bank of the Ozarks
  • China Cinda Asset Management on its acquisition of Nanyang Commercial Bank
  • Morgan Stanley on various non-controlling investments, its strategic alliance and Japanese securities joint venture with MUFG, and the spinoff of its in-house proprietary trading unit, Process Driven Trading
  • Green Dot on its acquisition of Bonneville Bancorp and Loopt, and its acquisitions of assets and assumption of deposits from Synovus Financial and GE Capital Retail Bank
  • OneMain Financial on its acquisition by Springleaf
  • Mizuho Financial Group on the formation of Mizuho Americas, its intermediate U.S. bank holding company, and the merger of its two U.S. bank subsidiaries
  • Banco Santander on the formation of its intermediate holding company
  • Lloyds Banking Group on its acquisition of HBOS
  • Sanpaolo IMI on the €65 billion merger with Banca Intesa
  • Citizens Financial Group and the Royal Bank of Scotland Group on Citizens’ $3.462 billion IPO and subsequent follow-on offerings
  • Agricultural Bank of China, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China and China Merchants Bank on their IPOs and the underwriters of China Construction Bank on its IPO
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Credentials

Recognition

Chambers Global – Banking & Finance: Mainly Regulatory, USA, Band 1

Chambers USA – Financial Services Regulation: Banking (Compliance), Band 1

Chambers USA – Financial Services Regulation: Financial Institutions M&A, Band 1

IFLR1000 – Financial Services Regulatory, United States, Market Leader

Legal 500 U.S. – Financial Services Regulation

Best Lawyers – “Lawyer of the Year,” Financial Services Regulation Law, New York City, 2022 

Law360 – “Banking MVP of the Year,” 2016

Education
J.D., Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
  • cum laude
  • Articles Editor, Northwestern University Law Review
B.A., Law, University of Oxford
  • Wadham College
B.A., McGill University
  • with great distinction
Professional history
  • Partner, 2006-present
  • Counsel, Davis Polk, London office, 2001-2006
  • Managing Director, J.P. Morgan (Brussels and London), 1995-2001
  • Associate, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, 1990-1995
  • Davis Polk, 1985-1989
Qualifications and admissions
  • State of New York
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit
  • U.S. District Court, E.D. New York
  • U.S. District Court, S.D. New York
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