Latham & Watkins LLP

Latham’s multidisciplinary fintech team helps clients around the globe, from fintech startups to major financial institutions, navigate a fast-evolving legal and regulatory landscape.

We draw on vast experience across financial regulatory, corporate, litigation, and tech capabilities to help fintech-focused clients innovate, invest, and thrive. Latham’s global platform delivers insightful and comprehensive service, whether structuring a company or platform, developing new products, raising financing, or executing complex M&A transactions.

We work across the entire fintech ecosystem, including:

• Digital assets and Web3
• Payments
• Market infrastructure and trading
• Insurtech

Our globally integrated fintech deal teams bring a deep understanding of the relevant technology and regulatory landscape in all key markets, from the US and Europe to the Middle East and Asia. Each deal team member draws on a broad fintech skillset, battle-tested reliability, and experience routinely leading fintech transactions of all shapes and sizes.

Latham’s unparalleled regulatory insight helps clients navigate a constantly evolving global regulatory environment. From data processing obligations to payments regulation, regulated outsourcings, and solution deployment to cryptoasset launches and trading, we pave the way for innovations to thrive in highly regulated environments.

We bring a deep technical and commercial understanding of the disruptive technologies that underpin the fintech industry, ensuring clients benefit from highly relevant and commercial advice, bespoke to the type of technology on which they focus.