Ronald Vaske > Ballard Spahr LLP > Philadelphia, United States > Lawyer Profile

Ballard Spahr LLP
1735 MARKET STREET, 51ST FLOOR
PHILADELPHIA, PA 19103-7599
PENNSYLVANIA
United States
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Work Department

Consumer Financial Services

Position

Partner and Leader of Fintech and Payments Team

Career

Ron Vaske leads Ballard Spahr’s Fintech and Payments Team. His practice focuses on matters involving banking, payment systems and commercial transactions.

Ron regularly assists clients in relationships between financial institutions and Fintechs and other third parties. He has more than two decades of experience helping clients establish and administer bank sponsorship arrangements for credit card, prepaid card, lending and payments programs. Several of the clients he works with serve the under-banked and subprime markets.

Admissions

Minnesota, South Dakota

Education

Creighton University School of Law (J.D. 1997)

South Dakota State University (B.S. 1990)

Lawyer Rankings

United States > Finance > Fintech

Ballard Spahr LLP has ‘a wealth of knowledge and experience in various areas across licensing, regulations, arbitration, litigation and privacy protection, making them a special one-stop shop for fintech companies‘. The firm has long had a strong focus on the fintech and payments industry, assisting a range of start-ups, banks and investors on the full range of issues. Ronald Vaske in Minnesota jointly leads the team with Lisa Lanham  in Philadelphia, who joined in 2022 from Alston & Bird LLP alongside of counsel, Rinaldo Martinez. Other key individuals include John Socknat in Philadelphia, who co-heads the firm’s consumer financial services group, and New York litigator Marjorie Peerce who is ‘an asset on any team‘.