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FinTech Legal: Payments & Lending - USA - Nationwide
What the Team is Known For
K&L Gates has broad FinTech capabilities across blockchain and cryptocurrency regulations, payments regulations, M&A, private equity and venture capital deals. The team acts for FinTech start-ups and investors on SEC regulations, digital wallets, money transmission, as well as complex transactions. The firm also handles data privacy and intellectual property matters.
Strengths
K&L Gates is fantastic in all aspects. The team is very cohesive, collaborative and has experts with deep knowledge.
K&L Gates are very well connected across the US. They are collaborative and really all over it.
Work Highlights
K&L Gates represented Crypto.com with respect to its formation and charting of a New Hampshire nondepository trust company, Foris DAX Trust Company, LLC d/b/a Crypto.com Custody Trust Company.
Notable practitioners
Judith is extremely knowledgeable in regulatory work.
Jeremy McLaughlin leads K&L Gates's payments, bank regulatory and consumer financial services group. McLaughlin regularly advises payments and lending firms on money transmission compliance, AML, SEC regulatory compliance, as well as transactions.
Jeremy McLaughlin is extremely intelligent. He is a super smart lawyer.