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Our law firm provides Nordic financial institutions and companies premier multi-practice guidance across mergers, securities offerings, capital markets, and more.

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Scott has a corporate finance practice with emphasis on cross–border securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and restructurings. His capital markets experience includes private placements and public offerings of debt and equity (including Rule 144A, Regulation S, and SEC–registered offerings); his M&A experience encompasses public and private acquisitions, asset sales, and tender offers; and his restructuring experience includes debt restructurings, bankruptcy proceedings, and corporate spin‑offs.As part of the firm’s leading private placement team, Scott has specialized experience in representing issuers who wish to make private placements of securities to institutional investors. In addition to traditional model form transactions, Scott is a member of the Loan Market Association working group on private placements that developed the LMA private placement documentation.

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Hayley specializes in representing financial institutions, corporate clients and senior individuals in highly sensitive litigation, regulatory enforcement matters and internal investigations. She is Head of Morrison Foerster’s European Compliance Practice and regularly advises clients in relation to their compliance program and diligence of third parties.Hayley has advised clients facing parallel enforcement actions in multiple jurisdictions and those facing parallel criminal, regulatory and civil litigation. Hayley has advised clients on diverse matters across Europe, the Americas, Asia, the Middle East and Africa in the banking/financial services, energy, chemicals, construction/engineering, manufacturing and technology industries. She is also a member of our global Sustainability + Corporate Responsibility steering committee.In addition, Hayley has an active sanctions practice and frequently guides clients through complex UK financial sanctions and export control issues, including making license applications and interfacing with the Office of Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) and the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development office (FCDO).Hayley has been recognized as a Next Generation Partner and described in the Legal 500 UK as “…massively experienced with an enormous breadth of knowledge when dealing with the most complex cross-border regulatory investigations. She combines an excellent intellect with really practical application. Top quality.” “She’s a very able lawyer whose commercial practice covers a wide range of areas, and she’s adept at each of them; she’s clever, tough, charming and a delight to work with. Clients love her, as does her legal team: she provides encouragement, reassurance and adept handling of the most difficult case. First-rate.”Hayley is also recognized in Chambers UK, with clients commenting on her ability to “combine strong communication skills with excellent legal expertise. She is a strong collaborative partner to work with… she is ridiculously hard-working and has great judgement on how to cut through everything. She is a great person to have on your side.” Hayley was named by Global Investigations Review (GIR) to its list of Women in Investigations in 2021.Hayley was formerly an Investigative Lawyer at the Serious Fraud Office in the UK.

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Barbara Mendelson’s practice involves advising foreign and U.S. banks in a variety of complex regulatory matters, including sales and acquisitions of U.S. banking and nonbanking firms, Dodd-Frank Act issues, applications to federal and state bank regulators for expansion of activities and new products, Bank Secrecy Act and OFAC matters, and over-the-counter and exchange-based trading of various instruments and derivatives. She has represented foreign banks in their U.S. operations for more than 30 years. Barbara has also been instrumental in forming a number of commercial banks and other subsidiaries of foreign banks. In addition to her bank regulatory practice, Barbara works with sovereign entities and multilateral organizations with respect to the investment of their foreign currency reserves and other assets.Barbara has been recognized in the industry for her exceptional legal work, including being named by Crain’s New York Business as one of the <a href="https://www.crainsnewyork.com/awards/notable-women-law-2021" target="_blank" dir="ltr">Notable Women in Law</a> in both its 2021 and 2019 editions, and in 2020 she was named “Compliance Lawyer of the Year” by C5’s Women in Compliance Awards. She has also been selected as Euromoney Legal Media Group's <a href="http://www.mofo.com/resources/news/200917-mofo-recognized-euromoney-diversity.html">2020 Banking and Finance Attorney of the Year</a>, and was awarded “Best in Financial Services” in 2019 and 2017. Barbara was also awarded the "Lawyer of the Year" designation by Best Lawyers in America (2019 and 2013) in the category of Financial Services Regulation Law (New York City). In addition, she has been recommended by Chambers USA, Chambers Global, Legal 500 US, IFLR1000, Best Lawyers in America, and Who’s Who Legal: Banking. In their 2023 guide, Who’s Who Legal listed Barbara as a “Thought Leader” in their Global Banking Regulation Review, which features the world’s foremost banking regulatory lawyers who have obtained the largest number of nominations from peers, corporate counsel, and other market sources.She is a member of the New York City Bar Association and the American Bar Association. Barbara also serves as president of the board of trustees of Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York City.

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