FinTech Legal: Blockchain & Cryptocurrencies - USA - Nationwide
Band 4
What the Team is Known For
Strengths
Covington & Burling is extremely intelligent, analytical, collaborative and collegial. The team is pragmatic and has an extremely high bar for excellence in its work product.
The firm is very strong on the regulatory and structuring front. It provided key advice on how best to structure the FinTech acquisition that helped us mitigate regulatory risks.
Covington has deep knowledge of Nacha clearing house issues and FinTech partnerships, they have an excellent team handling our matter.
Covington has great subject matter expertise, a customer-centric approach, and a willingness make adjustments to meet customer-specific needs.
Work Highlights
Covington advised Coinbase, a digital currency exchange, on financial services and securities regulations, as well as certain product counselling projects.
Notable practitioners
Judy Mok is a payments expert with a focus on strategic partnership agreements. She has negotiated complex payments transactions for retailers, financial institutions and businesses.
Judy is calm, thoughtful, willing to clarify complexity, and ready to jump in when needed.
Judy is a subject matter expert in payments. She has been very thorough with her proactivity and she has proved her value very well. She goes above and beyond.
Michael Nonaka is a financial services expert who assists banks, lending companies and payments firms with compliance, transactional and legislative issues. He is particularly sought after for state regulatory licensing and product counselling advice.
Michael has excellent expertise in the regulatory space as it relates to FinTech, providing a great perspective delivered in a way that is easy to consume and apply to our business model.
