Mr. Long is a member of Davis Polk & Wardwell’s Corporate Department, practicing in the Financial Institutions Group. He advises domestic and foreign banking organizations on the regulatory implications of mergers and acquisitions transactions; private equity and fund investments; the offering of new financial products, including derivatives; compliance and enforcement issues under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and anti-money laundering legislation; bank insolvency issues; and, in the case of foreign banks, establishing U.S. branch and other offices.

Representative matters Mr. Long has worked on include Banco Santander Central Hispano’s investment in Sovereign Bancorp; SLM Corporation (Sallie Mae) on its proposed sale to an investors group lead by J.C. Flowers; the acquisition by Citizens Financial Group, a subsidiary of The Royal Bank of Scotland Group, of Charter One Financial; Citigroup’s acquisition of Grupo Financiero Banamex-Accival; Banco Santander’s merger with Banco Central Hispanoamerica; Banco Bilbao Vizcaya’s merger with Argentaria; JPMorgan’s investment in KorAm Bank; JPMorgan’s stock option program with Microsoft; and BNP Paribas’ acquisition of the derivatives business of Zurich Capital Markets.

Mr. Long joined Davis Polk in 1994 and became counsel in 2004. He became a partner in 2007.

Mr. Long graduated, magna cum laude, from Harvard College in 1989 and in 1993 received his J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School, where he was a Supreme Court editor of the Law Review. He clerked for the Honorable J. Michael Luttig, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit, from 1993 to 1994, and for the Honorable Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court of the United States, during October Term 1997. He is admitted to the bar of New York. He is conversant in French.

He is author of “U.S. Law Considerations Applicable to Foreign Bank Acquisitions of U.S. Banking Institutions,” in 1 Regulation of Foreign Banks: United States and International (4th ed. 2000); “United States of America” in Global Financial Services Regulators: The Americas (2004); and “Costly U.S. Laundering Rules Must Change” in International Financial Law Review (May 2005).