Dzivi Law Firm

The Dzivi Law Firm, P.C. is a boutique law firm founded in 1997 with a primary focus on financial and corporate law. We are dedicated to assisting our clients in achieving success, which we believe is the ultimate measure of a law firm's success. Our clients range from large financial institutions and major corporations to start-up investors and enterprises. We strive to provide effective legal services that reflect the quality of our experienced attorneys in an economically efficient manner.

Our Practice

Our law practice focuses on advising, counseling, and representing financial institutions. We have extensive experience representing clients in a variety of matters in the financial services industry. Below are examples of the matters on which our attorneys have previously assisted clients:

• Advising clients on regulatory and legislative matters
• Counseling boards of directors on corporate and governance issues
• Assisting clients on financing transactions
• Representing clients before agencies on applications and administrative actions
• Representing shareholders in corporate matters
• Providing legal opinions and counseling on new financial products
• Advising clients on community and low-income lending
• Counseling clients on antitrust issues
• Advising clients on particular aspects of employment law applicable to financial institutions' employees and managers
• Representing clients in complex litigation
• Counseling clients on compliance with federal requirements for reporting suspected criminal financial activity

Our Attorneys

Bartly A. Dzivi, the founder of the firm, has over 30 years of experience representing various types of financial institutions and corporations on complex financial matters. His background in the financial services practice includes serving as counsel to the United States Senate Banking Committee, a partner at Pillsbury Madison & Sutro, LLP, and Acting General Counsel at the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco. Mr. Dzivi served as Special Counsel to the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission in 2009 and 2010, advising the Chairman on the Commission's operations and assisting in investigations of major financial institutions and banking agencies.

During the 1980s savings and loan crisis, Mr. Dzivi first served as counsel advising the federal banking regulators on enforcement actions against institutions and individuals. Later, he served as counsel to the Senate Banking Committee, advising the Committee on its regulatory oversight responsibilities and drafting legislation. Mr. Dzivi also was the principal advisor to the Committee Chairman on financial institution accounting issues.

In private practice at Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, LLP, Mr. Dzivi represented a large number of corporations, financial institutions, and high net worth individuals. His practice was focused on financial institutions and included litigation, transactional, and regulatory matters. After founding the firm, Mr. Dzivi served as Acting General Counsel for the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco for approximately one year.

Mr. Dzivi's recent practice includes the following types of matters:

• Counseling clients and preparing transaction documents for complex lending transactions with embedded derivatives
• Assisting a client in presentations to a regulatory agency on examination issues, drafting proposed amendments to regulations, and issuing an opinion letter regarding authority to undertake new types of transactions
• Assisting shareholders in obtaining corporate governance reforms from financial institutions and corporations

From 2004 to 2006, Mr. Dzivi was a member of the California State Bar Financial Institutions Committee and chaired the Subcommittee on Federal Legislation.

Education:

• University of Montana School of Law, J.D., 1984 with high honors
• University of Montana, B.A., 1981