Neal J. Curtin is Chair of the firm’s Financial Institutions Corporate and Regulatory Group. The group was ranked nationally for Financial Services Regulation - Banking (Compliance) in Chambers USA 2014, and is part of both a Banking and Finance and Financial Services Regulation practice that were ranked National Tier 1 in the 2015 Best Law Firm rankings, sponsored by U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers. Individually recognized in Chambers USA as “encyclopedic in his knowledge” of financial services regulation, Neal offers significant international experience and is praised by his clients for his “incredibly fast turnaround” and for being “a really talented lawyer.” Focusing his practice on financial institutions, Neal has broad experience with domestic and international transactions.

For more than 30 years, Neal has been actively involved in corporate, bank holding company and bank mergers, acquisitions, conversions, and restructurings. He has led the legal work in international transactions in sub-Saharan Africa, South America and the Caribbean, and he has represented banks and other international companies establishing operations or making acquisitions in the United States. Neal has also advised both U.S. and non-U.S. companies on licensing and other regulatory issues relating to establishment of mobile payment systems in the U.S. His regulatory experience involves practice before all of the federal bank regulatory agencies, as well as the Office of the Commissioner of Banks of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the bank regulators of other states.