The practice at Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP is well-placed to assist its clients, the portfolio of which features emerging and established fintech companies, investors, payment processing providers, and tech companies, on the array of complex matters. Regulatory compliance management, data breach cases, and advising on the design and development of tech systems are examples of matters in the team’s workload. Corporate and regulatory specialist Erin Fonté is based in Austin and has experience advising on product development, digital commerce, and banking and financial services issues. Dallas’ Peter Weinstock advises well-known clients on data monetization, blockchain, and stablecoin, while New York-based Lisa Sotto is a privacy and data security specialist.
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Key clients
- Quontic Bank
- Cross River Bank and CRB Group, Inc.
- Sutton Bank
- Addepar Inc.
- PowerPay, LLC
- Whatabrands LLC
- First West Texas Bancshares, Inc.
Work highlights
Serving as primary legal and product counsel for fintech lending platform PowerPay, having served as regulatory counsel for PowerPay since its founding in 2018, represented PowerPay in completing its first $118.9 million asset-backed securitization to further the company’s rapid growth, partnering with CapitalOne Securities and Chartway Federal Credit Union.
Representing Whatabrands LLC on several different transactions and in a major initiative regarding privacy, information security and data management.
Provided global privacy compliance advice to Addepar, Inc., advising on compliance with US and global privacy laws, as well as on its data transfer strategy and other privacy and information security issues.
Practice head
Erin Fonté
Other key lawyers
Peter Weinstock; Jarrett Hale; Lisa Sotto; Cecilio Oh; Scott Kimpel