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Dechert

Dechert

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United States • Finance

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Fintech

The team at Dechert is well-equipped to assist its clientele with various corporate transactional and regulatory matters. Mark D Perlow leads the team from San Francisco, assisting clients with the investment management and market infrastructure aspects of fintech, as well as advising investment advisers, fund managers, and broker-dealers on tech-driven products, funds, and models. Neel Maitra is a key name in Washington DC, with experience handling transactional and financial product matters relating to crypto and digital assets. Sarah Milam departed the team in June 2025.
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Accolades

Client satisfaction: Lawyer & team quality
Client satisfaction: Sector knowledge

Key clients

  • Amun 21 Shares
  • Upstart Holdings, Inc.
  • Estancia Capital
  • Pagaya US Holding Company
  • Pagaya Structured Products
  • Lovell Minnick Partners
  • GIC

Work highlights

Represented Pagaya since 2019 in connection with 40+ of its “PAID” securitizations of unsecured consumer loans totalling in excess of $21 billion which include assets originated on the various marketplace lending platforms.
Advised GIC, a leading global investment firm, in connection with the acquisition (in partnership with private equity firm Silver Lake) of Zuora, Inc., a leading monetization suite for modern business. The acquisition is valued at $1.7 billion.
Advised funds managed by Lovell Minnick Partners (LMP), a private equity firm focused on financial services, business services and fintech, on acquiring a majority stake in Merchant Industry, LLC (MI), a New York-based provider of payment processing solutions for small and medium-sized businesses.
Practice head

Mark D Perlow

Other key lawyers

Neel Maitra; Linda Ann Bartosch

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