Practice Areas:
Banking and Financial Law
Banking and Financial Institutions
Skelton & Woody has extensive experience in representing lenders and depository institutions in the wide-ranging variety of disputes that the industry confronts. We handle foreclosure and debt collection actions, as well as work-outs and negotiations with borrowers, correspondent banks and guarantors. Our experience includes all manner of lender liability litigation, breach of fiduciary duty claims, usury claims, matters arising under the National Bank Act, foreclosure issues, injunction actions involving real estate and other bank collateral, offset issues, assignments of rents, limited guaranties, receiverships, and cutting-edge financial institution issues. We also represent parties involved with troubled financial institutions.
We have recently won a string of summary judgments for OMNIBANK, NA on a wide range of legal matters in Houston, Austin and San Antonio. Two recent victories are profiled in our News section and they provide an example of the kinds of issues we have faced.
Hamp Skelton is a board member of the Capital Certified Development Corporation, a private non-profit provider of business financing solutions which since 1993 has been a certified provider of the SBA's 504 Loan program. Hamp has practiced banking law since the earliest days of his career some 29 years ago, having represented the outside directors of the two largest banks to fail in the Southwest since the 1930s Depression, Penn Square National Bank of Oklahoma City and First National Bank of Midland, Texas, which were closed by the OCC in 1982 and 1983 respectively. Since that time, he has consistently worked for banks and their officers and directors on a wide variety of suits and disputes. He has extensive experience with the OCC, FDIC, SBA and many state and federal guarantee agencies.
In addition to the firm's work for several regional and community banks, the Texas Bankers Association has hired Skelton & Woody to file amicus briefs on behalf of member banks on matters of importance to the industry. The firm also represents a fund that purchases notes from lenders and proceeds to foreclose on the real estate and rehabilitate the property for sale. The firm has on occasion represented borrowers in disputes with financial institutions, when no conflict is presented with our banking clients' positions, and represented borrowers on real estate-related banking transactions.
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