Profile: Robert L Tortoriello
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Law Firm: | Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP |
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| Office: |
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP One Liberty Plaza 10006-1470 |
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| City: | New York | |
| State: | New York | |
| Country: | USA | |
| Tel: | +1 212 225 2390 | |
| Fax: | +1 212 225 3999 | |
| Email: | rtortoriello@cgsh.com |
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Biography: Banking
Robert L Tortoriello is a partner based in the New York office of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP.Mr Tortoriello's practice focuses on bank capital markets and securities; compliance, internal investigations and enforcement; mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and restructurings; derivative products; and activity expansion. He provides regulatory counselling to US and foreign banks and industry participants concerning the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, the Bank Holding Company Act, the National Bank Act and the International Banking Act. Mr Tortoriello's regular clients include Bank of America, Barclays Global, BNP Paribas, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs and Sherman Financial, among others.
Distinguished as one of the best financial institutions lawyers in the United States by many legal ranking publications, Mr Tortoriello is recognised as a leading lawyer in Chambers Global, Chambers USA, Best Lawyers, The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers, World's Leading Banking Lawyers and The Best of the Best.
Mr Tortoriello lectures and is widely published on bank acquisitions, securities-related activities and bank regulatory developments. His recent publications include Guide to Bank Underwriting, Dealing and Brokerage Activities (Thomson LegalWorks, 12th ed, 2008), 'Bank Securities Activities in the US' (International Financial Law Review, 2006), 'The Federal Reserve Board's Proposed Interpretation of the Anti-tying Provisions of the Bank Holding Company Act Amendments of 1970' (Banking Law Journal, 2003), and several other scholarly and professional journals.
Mr Tortoriello joined the firm in 1974 and became a partner in 1982. He received a JD degree, magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1974 and an undergraduate degree, summa cum laude, from Saint Peter's College, New Jersey, in 1971.
This biography is an extract from The International Who's Who of Banking Lawyers which can be purchased from our bookstore.
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