Founded in 1913, Chapman and Cutler is a Chicago, Illinois based Investment Banks & Service Providers. The firm provides financial advisory services and specializes in the areas of finance, including leveraged leasing and other lease finance, asset secularization, and pooled investment products, such as defined portfolios and mutual funds. Chapman and Cutler's practice areas include banking, bankruptcy, restructuring and workouts, commercial litigation and dispute resolution, corporate counseling, asset-based lending, mezzanine finance, private equity and hedge funds, project finance, mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, intellectual property, lease finance, and public finance.