FinTech Legal

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Provided by Mori Hamada & Matsumoto

• MHM’s strong cross-practice FinTech team leverages on its deep roots in technology and financial services regulatory law, as well as intellectual property in order to provide comprehensive, integrated and credible FinTech legal services to a wide array of incumbents, traditional players, disruptors, collaborators and fledgling start-ups.​
• MHM has launched the MHM FinTech Platform initiative, where it leverages existing client base (i.e., traditional FIs and insurers as well as non-financial companies) and connects with MHM’s start-up team clients, to create new business, and achieve investments, not just help start-ups get licenses and create their financial business. 
• MHM boasts multiple FinTech team members who have previously served in senior positions with regulatory and governmental agencies, including the Financial Services Agency of Japan and the Bank of Japan. This experience enables the firm to provide practical, actionable advice that is attuned to the regulatory perspective. Additionally, members of the firm take leadership positions in both industry and governmental bodies focused on the development of new industry standards and the shaping of emerging regulation.
• MHM is an active thought leader and contributor in the FinTech space. The firm also has recognised strengths in several FinTech-related practice areas and regularly appears in the media and has established a strong client base through its market-leading technology practice.