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General Counsel From GE Capital Unit Joins BuckleySandler LLP
Stephen Ambrose's Arrival Coincides With Opening of Firm's New York Office
| Source: BuckleySandler
WASHINGTON, DC and NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - June 24, 2009) - BuckleySandler LLP, legal counsel
to the financial services industry, announces the opening of its New York
office and welcomes Stephen Ambrose, Jr., former General Counsel of GE
Capital's consumer finance unit as Partner-in-Charge of the new office,
effective July 1, 2009. Ambrose's extensive experience in banking, credit
card and other consumer financial services matters will add to the depth of
BuckleySandler's existing transactional, regulatory and public policy
capabilities.
"The addition of Steve Ambrose and a New York Office represents an
important milestone in BuckleySandler's strategic growth and further
enhances our ability to provide the enforcement, litigation, regulatory,
public policy and transactional legal services that our financial services
industry clients require to meet today's unprecedented challenges," said
firm Co-Chair Jerry
Buckley.
For over 20 years, Ambrose held various general counsel positions at GE,
most recently as General Counsel for GE Money, Americas, where he led the
legal, compliance and government relations functions serving its credit
card, banking, personal loan and other consumer finance units.
"BuckleySandler's entrepreneurial spirit and emphasis on flexibility and
high-quality service for clients made this a logical next step in my
career," notes Ambrose. "Joining BuckleySandler provides me with a superb
opportunity to employ as outside counsel the client-focused service and
cost management skills I've developed during my career, as well as the
chance to practice with my longstanding and highly respected legal
colleagues at the firm."
Ambrose currently serves as the Law Committee Chairman of the American
Financial Services Association and is a Fellow of the American College of
Consumer Financial Services Lawyers. He received a bachelor's degree, cum
laude, from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and his J.D.
from Fordham University Law School, where he served as Editor of the
Fordham Law Review.
As a firm that is taking the lead in the current financial services crisis,
BuckleySandler's intricate knowledge and understanding of the regulatory and legislative
process enables its 54 litigation and financial services attorneys throughout
its Washington, DC, Los Angeles and New York offices to keep their clients
abreast of the laws that govern the industry, how they are shaped in
Congress and how to respond and comply as new regulations are announced.
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