With extensive experience in dealing with regulators, the global fintech capabilities of Latham & Watkins LLP span digital assets, blockchain, and payment technology matters. Led by New York-based partners Stephen Wink and Yvette Valdez, the team is well-equipped to advise fintech market participants, from startups to established financial institutions. Valdez is experienced in advising clients on regulatory and compliance matters within the crypto derivatives market, while Wink represents a wide array of clients across the digital assets and Web3 space, including crypto exchanges and DAOs, earning recognition as a ‘legendary securities law practitioner’. In Washington DC, Barrie VanBrackle  focuses on payment technology and consumer financial services compliance, while Mitchell Rabinowitz is a leading lawyer in financial services market infrastructure consortia. In Los Angeles, Ghaith Mahmood advises on digital assets, with particular expertise in NFT technologies, guiding clients on all aspects of intellectual property and technology transactions, including developing, licensing, and commercializing IP assets, as well as advising on strategic transactions.
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Barrie VanBrackle advises industry leaders on complex fintech transactions, specifically regarding payment technology and consumer financial services compliance.

Barrie helps merchants, payment processors and fintech vendors navigate key areas at the intersection of technology and finance, including:

    • Consumer-facing financial and banking
    • Regulatory counseling and investigations, including for new US market entrants
    • Payment card industry regulations, including brand operating rules and data security standards
    • Money transmission
    • Prepaid card access

An authority on payments and consumer financial services compliance, she regularly guides clients on transactions involving payment systems participants, including large merchants and financial technology companies, with respect to payment acceptance, payment issuance, co-brand agreements, payment card industry data security issues, and payment regulatory matters.

Barrie ’s deep experience also includes advising corporate and private equity clients within the context of mergers and acquisitions and other fintech investments.

She frequently speaks at industry events and writes on the evolving regulatory and compliance issues relating to payments and other e-commerce matters.

Barrie is active in the community and regulatory volunteers with Merchant Acquirers’ Committee (MAC), a nonprofit trade association in the payment processing ecosystem. She holds a leadership position within MAC’s Government Relations Strategic Insights Group.

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  • ‘Latham has been terrific for all of my US securities regulatory questions and issues. They are industry leaders for all things US securities law as applied to the crypto space.

  • ‘Latham has been a great partner for me to bounce ideas and concerns off of. As a solo in-house lawyer, it is important to find a firm I can speak through issues with and Latham has been a great one.’
  • ‘Steve Wink is a legendary securities law practitioner and I am grateful for his wisdom and experience. Daphne Lambadariou is a junior associate who is wise beyond her years and has been a terrific communicator and always manages expectations well.’

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Key clients

  • Coinbase
  • Goldman Sachs
  • Wormhole Foundation
  • Eigen Foundation & Eigen Labs
  • Fidelity National Information Services
  • Aptos
  • Story Protocol
  • Fomtech Ltd (Floww)
  • Reddit Inc.
  • Receipts Depositary Corporation
  • Digital Asset Holdings
  • Jukebox Co.
  • Tools for Humanity
  • Aleo Network Foundation

Work highlights

Advised Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) on GTCR's majority stake acquisition in its subsidiaries WorldPay and RealNet Payments.
Advised the Nouns DAO Foundation on the potential conversion to a Wyoming Decentralized Unincorporated Nonprofit Association (DUNA).
Advised Robinhood on its acquisition of Marex North America and its Futures Commodities Merchant license.