The offering at Morrison Foerster is well-equipped to assist its sizable portfolio of clients in complex matters regarding payments and lending, as well as blockchain, crypto, and digital assets. The team’s workload spans regulatory, advisory, litigation, and enforcement cases. Jeffrey Silberman has significant experience advising on matters regarding emerging products and services, digital lending, payment networks, and financing options in both regulatory and transactional contexts, while Haimavathi Marlier has expertise assisting large tech and fintech clients with securities enforcement investigations and litigation; the pair oversee the practice from the firm’s New York office. Product development, regulatory compliance, and strategic partnerships are areas of expertise of Evan Minsberg at the same office. Complex securities matters are an area of expertise of Washington DC’s Val Dahiya. Team changes include the June 2025 arrivals of both Alexandra Steinberg Barrage and Matthew Bornfreund to the DC office, and the arrival to the San Francisco office of Avy Mallik in October of the same year.
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Key clients
- Affirm
- American Bankers Association
- Arca Funds
- BasePoint Capital
- BHG Financial
- BitOoda
- Book.io
- Boston Consulting Group & De Beers
- Chainalysis Inc.
- Cloaked
- CloudWalk
- Coinbase Inc.
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Practice head
Jeffrey Silberman; Haimavathi Marlier
Other key lawyers
William Frentzen; Jeremy Mandell; Evan Minsberg; Haimavathi Marlier; Alexander Barrage; Gerardo Gomez Galvis; Avy Mallik; Matthew Bornfreund; Alexandra Steinberg; Peter Fusco; Jae Zhou; Frank Paz