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John L. Douglas JD

Partner, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

John L. Douglas is a partner in Davis Polk’s Financial Institutions Group, heading the firm’s bank regulatory practice. As former General Counsel of the FDIC during the savings and loan crisis, he provides clients with the benefit of his first-hand experience in failed and troubled bank transactions. He has been involved in some of the most difficult and sensitive transactions of recent years, including many of the significant bank recapitalizations and restructurings, advising on complex regulatory and enforcement matters and providing sophisticated advice to financial institutions, their officers, directors and investors. His practice primarily involves helping clients navigate the bank regulatory maze to accomplish business objectives – be they strategic acquisitions or investments or the development of new products – or avoiding unanticipated consequences of regulatory missteps. Thus he has advised existing banking organizations, as well as financial and commercial companies in investments, mergers and acquisition in the financial sector, involving both healthy and troubled (and occasionally failed) institutions. He has guided clients through threatened and actual regulatory enforcement actions and investigations. As would be expected given his background, he is intimately involved in the resolution planning for many of the large systemically important financial institutions.


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