John Banes is a partner in Davis Polk's Financial Institutions Group. Until recently, he was based in London, where he represented financial institutions on strategic capital raising and other transactions involving a significant regulatory component. He currently advises financial institutions on a range of regulatory and related transactional issues, including resolution planning, regulatory capital and TLAC, regulatory requirements applicable to the U.S. operations of non-U.S. financial institutions and internal reorganizations. He is also a member of the firm's white collar, criminal defense and investigations practice. He has worked closely with the firm's white collar partners, both on core investigative and enforcement issues as well as on the range of complex governance, disclosure, financial reporting and transactional issues that can be generated by internal investigations and enforcement actions. John received his AB degree in history (summa cum laude) from Princeton University in 1984 and his JD degree from Yale Law School in 1991, where he was a Coker Fellow (teaching assistant) in Constitutional Law. He was also a Mellon Fellow in medieval history at Columbia University from 1986 to 1987.