Proskauer

Bruce Raphael helps clients in the public and private sectors manage risk during M&A transactions by providing advice on deal structuring, negotiation, and post-deal company operations. With over three decades of experience, he represents clients in a wide range of industries, including financial services, telecommunications, gaming, life sciences, manufacturing, and technology, often in cross-border transactions. When it comes to co-investment deals, Bruce works with a wide range of private sources of capital and private investment firms. Bruce also has experience advising financial institution clients in complex transactions.

Bruce has acted as counsel for buyers and sellers of financial and bank holding companies, banks, commercial and consumer finance firms, mortgage firms, mutual fund firms, stock brokers, dealers, and specialists, and insurance companies and producers. In addition, he has represented financial services clients before the Federal Reserve, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and a wide range of state regulators and self-regulatory groups.

Bruce is a sought-after speaker and author on the topics of M&A and the financial services sector.