Travis P. Nelson Joins Reed Smith’s Financial Industry Practice in Firm’s Princeton and Philadelphia Offices

(October 27, 2010, Philadelphia, PA) - Reed Smith LLP continues to expand its Financial Industry Group (FIG) with the addition of senior associate Travis P. Nelson. He will be resident in both the firm's Princeton, NJ and Philadelphia, PA offices in FIG's Financial Services Regulatory Group.

Travis focuses his practice on serving financial institutions, and other companies, and their directors and officers, in consumer/regulatory compliance, bank mergers and acquisitions, enforcement actions, internal investigations, and defense of financial services class action litigation.  In addition, a significant portion of Travis' practice involves representing institutions and individuals in criminal and regulatory investigations.  Travis is formerly with the Enforcement Division of the Office of Comptroller of the Currency, the bureau of the U.S. Treasury Department that regulates national banks.  Travis is also an active member of the ABA'S Banking Law Committee, is a frequent writer and speaker on bank regulation, and is adjunct faculty at the Villanova University School of Law where he teaches Financial Institutions Regulation.

"The unprecedented deluge of new financial services regulation challenges our clients.  Travis will help our financial services regulatory group deliver practical and timely advice to our financial services clients," said group chair Len Bernstein.  "Travis will also assist our privacy and data security breach team."

Travis earned his law degree at The Catholic University of America in 2001.  He received a B.S. in Economics from Villanova University's School of Business in 1998.  Travis is admitted to the Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Maryland and District of Columbia bars, as well as various federal courts, and has litigated before the federal Office of Financial Institutions Adjudication.

Reed Smith is a global law firm with nearly 1600 lawyers in 23 offices throughout the United States, the United Kingdom, Continental Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Its financial industry group is comprised of more than 235 lawyers organized on a cross-border, cross-discipline basis who represent clients involved in the financial sector. Lawyers in the group advise on transactional finance covering an array of financial products, litigation, commercial restructuring, bankruptcy, bank regulation, consumer compliance and investment management. For more information, visit Reed Smith's Financial Industry Group.