Kimberly Monty Holzel > Goodwin > Boston, United States > Lawyer Profile
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Kimberly Monty Holzel
Position
Partner
Career
Kimberly Monty Holzel is a partner in Goodwin’s Financial Industry, Consumer Financial Services and Fintech practices. She advises banks and Fintech clients offering tech-enabled consumer financial services on compliance with consumer financial services laws. Kimberly works with payment services, blockchain and virtual currency companies on FinCEN’s money service business (MSB) regulations and anti-money laundering requirements. She also prepares banks, lenders and Fintech companies for supervision by financial services regulators and represents them in connection with state and federal regulatory investigations, examinations, and inquiries.
Prior to joining the firm, Kimberly worked for the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. During Kimberly’s four years at the CFPB, she headed examination teams at large financial institutions, among other responsibilities. The CFPB teams she led examined for compliance with, among other things, mortgage originations and servicing, fair lending laws, and consumer loan and consumer banking matters.
Education
JD, Boston College Law School (cum laude) / BA, Cornell University (with distinction)
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Finance > Fintech
(Next Generation Partners)Goodwin has a strong focus on fintech, blockchain and digital currencies, with a comprehensive offering that includes transactional, regulatory and litigation advice. Clients consider the firm ‘extremely adept at working with the fintech startup world‘ and is able to ‘distil complex regulations into tangible actions‘. This extends to the crypto space, where it has ‘the rare ability to act as the generalist corporate counsel as well as to advise on all regulatory matters‘. The firm is also seeing a growing amount of insurtech and metaverse-related work. Lead partners include Mitzi Chang who co-chairs the fintech group with Scott Joachim in Silicon Valley, and the ‘always positive and helpful‘ Mike Whalen in Washington DC. Other key partners on the digital currency and blockchain side include Grant Fondo (Silicon Valley) and Karen Ubell, who is ‘among the most experienced, thoughtful, and versatile cryptocurrency lawyers in the nation‘. DC-based counsel Juliana Gerrick is ‘consistently able to distill complex and proprietary processes‘. In Boston, Kimberly Monty Holzel holds the distinction of having previously worked at the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. All partners based in San Francisco unless otherwise stated.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Industry focus > Cannabis
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- 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
- Industry focus > Education
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Finance > Fintech
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- International Trade > CFIUS
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- 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)
- Real estate > Real estate
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Healthcare > Service providers
- International Trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Intellectual property > Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)