BuckleySandler: The New Legal Solution for the Challenges Facing the Financial Services Industry.

Financial Services Law Firm Opens its Doors in Washington, DC

WASHINGTON -- The nation's leading financial services enforcement and litigation practice, led by Andrew Sandler and Benjamin Klubes, is joining with Buckley Kolar LLP, a premier financial services law firm, to form a new firm, BuckleySandler LLP.

BuckleySandler will provide its clients with the full-range of enforcement, litigation, regulatory, public policy and transactional services to meet the challenges confronting the financial services industry in an unprecedented time of turmoil and change.

The new firm, with offices in Washington, DC and Los Angeles, will be opening a New York office and will initially be comprised of 40-50 experienced financial services and litigation lawyers. Mr. Sandler and Jeremiah S. Buckley will serve as co-chairmen of the firm.

Mr. Sandler has been the head of the Consumer Financial Services Litigation Practice at Skadden, where he practiced with partner Mr. Klubes. They have an active complex civil litigation practice, and Mr. Sandler has been the lead defense counsel in more than 70 class action cases in federal and state courts throughout the country.

Buckley Kolar LLP has served major financial services clients throughout the country in significant regulatory, enforcement, litigation, transactional and public policy matters.

At a time when financial services firms are facing enormous challenges and the entire legal architecture of the industry is expected to be restructured, the capabilities of BuckleySandler will enable the firm to provide its clients with access to a broader range of legal services.

"Our clients will have a direct link to the strongest team of legal advisers on compliance with state and federal financial services regulations and the added benefit of the leading enforcement and litigation practice in the country," explains Mr. Sandler.

Mr. Buckley observed, "Washington is becoming the epicenter of the financial services industry as its future is being shaped. This is a terrific opportunity to bring together public policy and regulatory capabilities with the enforcement and litigation strength for the greater benefit of our clients."

Mr. Sandler will also be assuming the title of CEO of Corporate Risk Advisors LLC and along with Mr. Buckley, will be leading that multi-disciplinary consulting firm, which provides compliance and risk management services to the financial services industry.