Practice Expertise

  • Business Services
  • Corporate Finance
  • Commercial Lending
  • Mergers & Acquisitions

Areas of Practice

  • Business Services
  • Commercial Lending
  • Corporate Finance
  • Mergers & Acquisitions

WSG Practice Industries

WSG Leadership

  • Banking & Finance Group - Member

Profile

Bob Leavitt represents clients from national financial institutions and multi-national, publicly traded companies to small start-ups, spanning many industries, including banking and financial services, medical waste disposal, transportation, food, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, manufacturing, and high-tech services. While practicing law for over twenty-five years, Bob has served as both in-house counsel for a global financial institution as well as outside counsel in private practice.

Bob's experience and practice currently encompasses banking services, operations, technology and compliance such as:

  • treasury management services,
  • funds transfers and payment systems, both domestically and internationally,
  • deposit, lock-box and account services,
  • anti-money laundering and foreign asset control compliance,
  • escheatment,
  • FinTech,
  • process reengineering project management, and
  • e-commerce, on-line and internet banking.

Bob also works on a broad range of complex commercial, corporate and financial transactions including:

  • Mergers and acquisitions,
  • Capital raises and private placements,
  • Secured and cash-flow lending and loan documentation, work-outs, forbearance agreements and restructurings,
  • Sale and purchase of goods and services,
  • Joint venturing, licensing, distribution, commercial contracting, outsourcing and other general commercial matters,
  • Equipment leasing,
  • Corporate/LLC/partnership formation, governance, planning and general corporate/LLC/partnership matters, and
  • Non-profit and charitable organizations

Bar Admissions

Illinois

Education
University of Cambridge, LL.M., with honors De Paul University College of Law, J.D. Colgate University, B.A.

Areas of Practice

  • Business Services
  • Commercial Lending
  • Corporate Finance
  • Mergers & Acquisitions

Blogs

Cannabis Law Blog

The cannabis industry presents unprecedented opportunities for businesses and entrepreneurs. Yet, entities looking to engage in this emerging industry face daunting levels of legal complexity and uncertainty. Moreover, state and local governments are constantly tasked with regulating an ever-evolving industry. Dykema's Cannabis Law Blog discusses important cannabis-related legal developments, reviews the practical implications of those developments, and provides valuable insight for anyone...

The Firewall

The Firewall keeps you up to date on the hottest legal topics in the ever-changing world of data security and privacy. As information security becomes a critical facet of all businesses and industries and the target of many regulators, it is important to stay apprised of new legal developments. The Firewall provides insightful legal analysis of the emerging issues in data privacy and cybersecurity law to help businesses stay ahead of the curve.

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