Practice
Gregg Rozansky is counsel in the Financial Institutions Advisory & Financial Regulatory Group of Shearman & Sterling. Mr. Rozansky’s practice focuses on financial institution related matters and includes counseling with respect to a wide range of bank regulatory and supervisory issues. He regularly assists bank and financial institution clients on U.S. bank regulatory issues arising in connection with mergers and acquisitions, capital-markets activities, holding company formations, investments in U.S. depository institutions and financial institutions, restructurings, and license acquisitions and conversions. He has assisted foreign banks in becoming financial holding companies with the Federal Reserve and in establishing U.S. offices. In addition to frequently providing guidance on U.S. financial regulatory reform (the Dodd-Frank Act) and the U.S. federal banking laws, he also provides advice on U.S. financial services privacy laws and regulations and assists bank, financial institution and other clients on a wide range of New York state-related issues including interest rate restrictions and state licensing requirements for various types of financial institutions. He has counseled financial organizations in connection with internal investigations relating to bank regulatory compliance issues.

Mr. Rozansky, who joined Shearman & Sterling in 2009, has previously held a position as a Teaching Fellow in the Harvard University Department of Economics.

• North Cove Partners in its spin off from Bank of America
• Fairfax in its portfolio investment in the Bank of Ireland
• Sterling Bancshares, Inc. in its pending acquisition by Comerica Incorporated
• Société Générale in its combination with Crédit Agricole to create the Amundi Group

• Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Banking Law Committee

Selected Recent Speaking Engagements

• Women in Housing and Finance Spring Symposium (Washington, D.C.), “Regulatory and Industry Perspectives on Financial Stability,” March 2012
• A Guide to Financial Institutions 2012 (New York, New York), “U.S. and International Regulatory Capital Reforms and Their Implications,” Practising Law Institute, March 2012
• Speaker at the European Compliance Conference, “U.S. Financial Reform,” Budapest, Hungary, July 2010

• Co-author of article "BASEL III: What Bank Officers and Directors Need to Know," BankDirector.com, January 5, 2012
• Co-author of “Developments in Asset-Back Securitization since Dodd-Frank: An Assessment of the Regulatory Landscape,” The Journal of Structured Finance, September, 2011
• Co-author of op-ed article on financial institution resolution plans, “Where There’s a Will,” International Financial Law Review, May 31, 2011
• Author of “The Loss Absorbency Requirement and ‘Contingent Capital’ Under Basel III,” EuroWatch, March 15, 2011
• Co-author of chapter on US Bank Confidentiality, “USA,” Neate and Godfrey: Bank Confidentiality, Fifth Edition, 2011
• Co-author of “Dodd-Frank: Derivatives as Credit Extensions of Banks,” NYU Journal of Law and Business, Fall 2010
• Co-author of “The Bank Regulators’ New Guidance on Management of IRR and CRE Loan Workouts,” Review Of Banking & Financial Services, May 2010 and republication in the Journal of Taxation and Regulation of Financial Institutions, October 2010
• Co-author of “Translating ‘Macro-Prudential Supervision’ Principles into Law: A focus on the ‘forest’ instead of just the ‘trees’,” New York Law Journal, January 11, 2010