Finance
Paul Hastings LLP is particularly adept at handling the myriad of regulatory, transactional, and corporate issues within the payments sector, as well as all stages of digital asset companies’ lifecycles, with extensive experience engaging with regulatory bodies such as the SEC. In Atlanta, Chris Daniel is an expert in payments and cryptocurrency, working on complex multijurisdictional mandates. Operating out of San Francisco, Eric Sibbitt is a key port of call for complex regulatory matters presented by financial technology and is a leader in the application of federal securities law, while Molly Swartz focuses on helping clients commercialize their product offerings, with particular expertise in earned wage access alternative financing and consumer protection laws. In New York, Dana Syracuse specializes in helping clients secure special-purpose bank and trust charters, while Josh Boehm advises financial institutions engaged in digital asset activities, focusing on obtaining regulatory approvals and guiding clients on deploying digital asset products in compliance with financial regulations.
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Partner, Corporate Department
Position
Eric Sibbitt serves as both Co-Chair of the Global Fintech & Payments and Vice Chair of the Securities & Capital Markets practice groups. As one of the most trusted legal advisors in the Fintech industry, Eric represents major trading platforms and other market intermediaries, leading innovators, and prominent investors in navigating the regulatory complexity presented by blockchain and new financial technologies and legacy regulation.
Eric has broad experience advising issuers and underwriters on IPOs and other complex equity and debt capital-raising and liability management transactions, as well as M&A and other strategic transactions, and provides clients with boardroom counsel on SEC and corporate governance matters.
Education
- Harvard University, J.D., 1997: cum laude; Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard International Law Journal
- Kyushu University, LL.M., International Economic and Business Law, 1998
- University of California at Berkeley, A.B., Economics and Asian Studies (East Asian Political Economy), 1993: High Honors, Phi Beta Kappa
- Osaka University, Economics Department, 1991-1992
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Key clients
- Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of FTX
- MoneyGram International
- Voyager Digital LLC
- GTCR
- Airbnb
- EquiLend Holdings LLC (“EquiLend”)
- Bilt Technologies, Inc.
- Cherry Technologies, Inc.
- Gynger
- Shopify
- R&T Deposit Solutions
- Block
- Circle Internet Financial, LLC
- Coinbase, Inc.
- Wyoming Stable Token Commission