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    C. Michelle Chen

    Partner

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    Washington, D.C.

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    Michelle Chen is a partner in the Firm’s Financial Services Group, with a broad regulatory and transactional practice. She advises financial institutions on a range of U.S. bank regulatory matters, including permissible activities, investments and regulation of non-U.S. banking organizations in the United States, as well as climate and other ESG matters. She also regularly advises on mergers and acquisitions and capital markets transactions involving U.S. and non-U.S. financial institutions. In addition, she is active in the Firm’s investment management practice, with a primary focus on advising business development companies in connection with Investment Company Act matters, as well as capital raising and strategic transactions.

    Ms. Chen has been recognized in The Best Lawyers in America (2024) for her expertise in Banking and Finance Law, The 2023 Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation (the inaugural edition), as a 2022 Rising Star in Banking by Law360 and as a 2022 DC Rising Star in The National Law Journal. She is a member of Law360’s 2023 Banking Editorial Advisory Board. She was also named a Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD) Fellow for 2023.

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    Spotlight

    Marc Treviño, Michelle Chen and Alex LePore Author Law360 Article on Financial Stability Board Report on Trends in Climate-Related Compensation Practices

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    S&C Critical Insights – ESG Considerations for Financial Institutions

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    S&C Advises Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group as It Completes Sale of MUFG Union Bank to U.S. Bancorp

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    Michelle Chen and Samantha Hynes Named “D.C. Rising Stars” by The National Law Journal 

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    Michelle Chen named a  Law360 Rising Star

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    Experience

    Experience

    • Artisan Partners in a number of underwritten common stock offerings following its IPO
    • Capital One in reorganizations of its U.S. banking operations
    • Carlyle Group’s business development companies on Investment Company Act, formation and disclosure matters, as well as capital raising and joint venture transactions
    • CITIC Securities in its acquisition of CLSA from Crédit Agricole for $1.25 billion

    • EverBank in its $2.5 billion sale to TIAA
    • Intercontinental Exchange in its $2.5 billion underwritten senior notes offering in connection with its acquisition of Interactive Data
    • Fiserv in its $22 billion acquisition of First Data and a number of underwritten common stock offerings
    • M&T Bank in its $8.3 billion acquisition of People’s United 
    • MUFG in its:
      • $936 million acquisition of shares of U.S. Bancorp
      • $8 billion sale of MUFG Union Bank to U.S. Bancorp
    • PacWest in its $849 million acquisition of Square 1 Financial
    • Popular in its acquisition of certain assets and deposits of Doral Bank from the FDIC in a receivership transaction and multiple related purchase and assumption transactions
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    Rankings and Recognitions

    Rankings and Recognitions

    Ms. Chen has been recognized in The Best Lawyers in America (2024) for her expertise in Banking and Finance Law, The 2023 Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation (the inaugural edition), as a 2022 Rising Star in Banking by Law360 and as a 2022 DC Rising Star in The National Law Journal.

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    News

    News

    • Marc Treviño, Michelle Chen and Alex LePore Author Law360 Article on Financial Stability Board Report on Trends in Climate-Related Compensation Practices

      May 22, 2023
    • Michelle Chen Comments on the Federal Reserve’s Proposed Guidance on Climate-Related Financial Risk Management in Global Banking Regulation Review

      December 12, 2022
    • S&C Advises Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group as It Completes Sale of MUFG Union Bank to U.S. Bancorp

      December 8, 2022
    • Michelle Chen Featured in The American Lawyer’s “How I Made Partner” Series

      February 15, 2022
    • S&C Advises Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group in $8 Billion Sale of U.S. Core Regional Banking Franchise to U.S. Bancorp

      October 18, 2021
    • S&C Advises M&T Bank in Acquisition of People’s United Financial

      February 22, 2021
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    Publications, Videos and Podcasts

    Publications, Videos and Podcasts

    • ESG Considerations for Financial Institutions

      Podcasts January 26, 2023
    • ESG Trends and Hot Topics

      Newsletters May 31, 2022
    • Implications of the SEC’s New Climate Disclosure Proposal for Financial Institutions

      Podcasts May 4, 2022
    • S&C Lawyers Author Article on Biden Administration Approach to Climate-Related Financial Risk

      Articles November 22, 2021
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    Credentials

    Credentials

    Education

    • Columbia Law School, J.D., 2012
    • Duke University, B.A., 2008
    • Duke University, B.S., 2008

    Bar Admissions

    • District of Columbia
    • New York

    Languages

    • Chinese (Mandarin)
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    Related Practices

    Related Practices

    • General Practice
    • Bank Regulatory
    • Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)
    • Financial Services
    • Financial Services Capital Markets
    • Financial Services Mergers & Acquisitions
    • Investment Management
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