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FinTech Legal - Canada
What the Team is Known For
Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg acts for a range of FinTech businesses across payments, e-commerce, blockchain and Web3 on legal and regulatory matters. The team advises on product launches, licensing and AML compliance in addition to privacy and consumer protection issues. Working alongside the firm's corporate department, Davies' FinTech team also handles regulatory matters stemming from M&A and investment activity in the sector.
Strengths
Davies has been excellent with our file when it comes to gaining sufficient understanding of our business model and tailoring the regulatory submission to the unique circumstances of our file.
Everyone at Davies Ward is high quality. The quality of their lawyers all the way to the partner is so high that partner can trust the associates and students to do very good work.
Work Highlights
Davies acted for Robinhood in its CAD250 million acquisition of WonderFi Technologies, which operates one of the largest registered crypto trading platforms in Canada.
Notable practitioners
Zain Rizvi advises FinTech businesses on a broad range of regulatory matters. He handles VASP registration, payments licensing and AML compliance along with privacy and data mandates, securities regulation and other financial regulatory matters.
Zain has been great to work with. He is always able to provide excellent level of service.
Zain Rizvi has great knowledge of Canadian FinTech landscape. He is commercial in his thinking and when looking at broader guidance and confident in front of any sort of party.