Edward J. Halper

Ed is a frequent lecturer for Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education (IICLE), Chicago Bar Association CLE programs, the Illinois Land Trust Council, the Illinois Bankers Association, Community Bankers Association of Illinois and various accounting and trade groups. Ed is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association Section on Commercial Banking and Bankruptcy Law and the Chicago Bar Association Committee on Financial Institutions. He is also a former chair for the Chicago Bar Association Land Trust Subcommittee.

Representative experience:

• Representation of existing banks and trust companies and their shareholders in all facets, including employment and labor, regulatory and organizational matters, litigation, loan documentation, securities offerings, and enforcements of creditors’ rights.
• Representation of corporate and bank/bank holding company clients in sales, mergers, acquisitions and restructures.
• Reviewing and counseling financial institutions with regard to their vendor contracts with third party vendors, specifically focusing on the vendors’ required compliance with privacy issues and being subject to regulatory review by the financial institutions’ regulators.
• Representation of a bank that received a fraudulent wire transfer instructions and incurred a financial loss.
• Representation of a manufacturing/distribution company regarding fraudulent incidents that compromised customer information.