Chris Daniel

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Chris Daniel is the Founder and Chair of Paul Hastings’ award-winning Global Fintech & Payments Group and is a partner in the Corporate Department. He is recognized as one of the country's leading attorneys in payment systems law, including electronic payments, mobile payments, virtual and digital currencies, and money transmission. His unique strength lies in his ability to blend his financial services regulatory expertise with his many years of transactional experience. Chris is one of the most sought-after payments and cryptocurrency experts in the market and continues to attract a consistent stream of major, complex, multijurisdictional and sophisticated Fintech mandates.

Chris focuses his practice on non-bank and bank financial institutions and technology companies participating in the banking and payment systems. He has significant experience advising clients on issues related to investments into payment systems companies and banks, creation of settlement networks, transactional matters involving payment systems companies, global money transmission, and anti-money laundering issues associated with payments.

Chris was named among Law360’s 2023 “MVPs” for Fintech. In April 2024, he was also recognized as a “Most Effective Dealmakers” finalist (Southeastern Legal Awards) and is ranked Tier 1 by Legal 500.