Banking, Accounting and Financial Services

Recent years have seen growth in the use of arbitration in the finance sector. Parties benefit from CPR’s experienced case management team and specialized neutrals with understanding of banking, accounting, financial services and related subject matter, saving the time and cost in educating the neutral as to key issues relevant to their dispute.

BANKING, ACCOUNTING & FINANCIAL SERVICES PANEL OF NEUTRALS

This Panel comprises neutrals with experience in resolving complex disputes arising between banking, accounting and financial services institutions.  Included on this Panel are attorneys with extensive financial background and expertise in resolving disputes which arise in the context of real estate, accounting, mergers & acquisitions, hedge funds and other types of corporate deals.  They include neutrals with an understanding of the financial implications of business processes and flows; business valuations; buy-sell agreements; financial and securities disputes; forensic accounting; insurance coverage; professional malpractice by accounting firms; partnerships, and corporations.

OUR PANEL OF NEUTRALS INCLUDES: 

• Retired partner of Big Four accounting firm

• Former assistant secretary of the Treasury Enforcement and Operations

• Former senior trial counsel at the Securities and Exchange Commission

• Former chief litigation counsel at New York Stock Exchange-listed financial company

CPR’S RULES & PROCEDURES

Our rules, protocols, and model clauses are driven and informed by the CPR Institute, a collection of expert end-users on the front lines of dispute resolution. The CPR Institute’s Banking and Financial Services Committee comprises leading practitioners, corporate counsel, academics, and neutrals. Parties can use any of CPR’s Rules or Procedures to effectively manage their financial services disputes, including CPR’s Administered Arbitration Rules or Mediation Procedures, or any of CPR’s Fast Track Procedures. 
 

EXPERTISE IN CASE MANAGEMENT 

The CPR Dispute Resolution team is responsive, efficient, and detail oriented. Our case managers have extensive experience in ADR, with backgrounds at a range of provider institutions, and have managed matters across the globe and in a wide variety of different subject areas.
 

REPRESENTATIVE FINANCE MATTERS ADMINISTERED BY CPR: 

Disputes arising out of loan syndications, earnout disputes, purchase price adjustment disputes, disputes arising out of hedge fund management, accounting and audit malpractice disputes.