Kyle Tayman > Goodwin > Washington DC, United States > Lawyer Profile
Goodwin Offices
1900 N Street NW
Washington, District of Columbia 20036
United States
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Kyle Tayman
Position
Partner
Career
Kyle Tayman is a partner in the firm’s Financial Services, Consumer Financial Services Enforcement and Litigation, Fintech, Data, Privacy & Cybersecurity, and Digital Currency & Blockchain practices. Kyle regularly represents clients in the financial services, banking, technology, AI, digital marketing and other industries in government investigations and enforcement actions, complex consumer financial and privacy class actions, mass arbitrations, and complex litigation. He frequently counsels clients on regulatory compliance enforcement and litigation risk avoidance with respect to federal and state consumer protection, privacy and marketing laws.
Kyle is the lead editor of Goodwin’s Consumer Finance Insights blog, which is the marketplace’s first resource for real-time reporting on the full range of public federal and state consumer finance enforcement activity. He regularly publishes and speaks on current enforcement and litigation trends, serves on the firm’s committee for attorney development, and is a board member for a national non-profit focused on legal issues for homelessness. He joined Goodwin in 2008.
Education
JD, 2008
Georgetown University Law Center (cum laude)
BA, 2003
Georgetown University (cum laude)
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
Goodwin advises clients on cyber incident response in the tech, life sciences, financial services, private equity and real estate industries. The firm leverages its knowledge on federal and state privacy law, as well as AI regulation, to support clients in litigation and policymaking. Its expertise also includes adtech, biometrics, generative AI, fintech and crypto matters. Based in New York, AI expert Peter Marta, data litigator Mark David McPherson and risk management advisor Jud Welle lead the team. McPherson and Marta joined from Morrison Foerster in January 2024 and Hogan Lovells US LLP in September 2024 respectfully. Fellow practice head Kyle Tayman works out of Washington DC and represents clients before the FTC and other government agencies in their investigations. Omer Tene, in the Boston office, is a noted privacy expert in the team. In August 2024, Kaitlin Betancourt joined from an in-house position.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Industry focus > Cannabis
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: middle-market (Up to $500m)
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Finance > Fintech
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- International trade and national security > CFIUS
- Finance > Commercial lending
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- International trade and national security > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Intellectual property > Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Finance > Financial services regulation