The offering at Mayer Brown advises on a broad array of complex fintech matters, including assisting clients with financial services-related regulatory and enforcement, representing financial institutions in the provision of banking services, and handling the remit of tech transactions. Assisting fintech companies with in capital markets, M&A, and venture capital contexts is also an area of specialism of the group. In Washington DC, David Beam is experienced in payment systems and credit product matters relating to innovative financial tech, Reginald Goeke is a noteworthy litigator, and Steven Kaplan is a financial regulatory expert. At the New York office, Joseph Castelluccio is well-equipped to handle digitization, blockchain, and AI cases. Palo Alto-based Nina Flax has a specialism in M&A. All aforementioned oversee the practice alongside Chicago’s Julie Gillespie and Brad Peterson. Also noteworthy in the group are Chicago-based digital transformation and outsourced services transactions expert Joe Pennell, and New York’s Anna Pinedo whose workload includes handling cross-border digital securities offerings. DC’s Matthew Bisanz‘s advises on stablecoin, while Kelly Truesdale advises on fintech transactions from the same office. San Francisco’s Rohith George is also a key name.
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Key clients
- Barclays Capital Inc.
- BMO Capital Markets Corp.
- BNY (formerly BNY Mellon)
- Financial Technology Partners LP (FT Partners)
- First Citizens Bank
- Goldman Sachs
- GreenSky, LLC
- Guggenheim Partners, Inc.
- Keefe Bruyette & Woods, A Stifel Company
- Meanwhile Life Insurance
- Pipe Technologies Inc.
- Procore Technologies, Inc.
- RBC Capital Markets, LLC
- Republic (OpenDeal Inc.)
- Silicon Valley Bank (a division of First Citizens)
- Societe Generale and Societe Generale-Forge
- UBS Securities LLC
- Upbound Group, Inc.
- Visa, Inc.
Work highlights
Advised Société Générale on its first digital bond issuance in the United States, which was made using Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc.’s tokenization capability on the Canton Network blockchain.
Advised a consortium led by Guggenheim Partners on the development of a US tokenized commercial paper issuance platform, including comprehensive federal and state securities analysis and integrated tax/regulatory structuring for one of the first tokenized CP offerings in the US.
Served as product regulatory and transaction counsel to Pipe Technologies on small business financing programs, including structuring of merchant cash advances and charge card products, money transmission and information flow analysis.
Lawyers
Leading partners
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Next Generation Partners
Junior partners with significant recognition from clients and peers in the market and key roles on multiple matters.
Leading associates
Leading associates with regular involvement in their team's key work, and recognition from peers or clients as being ones to watch.
Practice head
David Beam; Joseph Castelluccio; Nina Flax; Julie Gillespie; Reginald Goeke; Steven Kaplan; Brad Peterson
Other key lawyers
Joe Pennell; Eric Mitzenmacher; Matt Bisanz; Erin Cho; Julian Dibbell; Francis Doorley; Kelly Truesdale; Anna Pinedo; Rohith George; Steffen Hemmerich