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.