FinTech Legal: Payments & Lending
USA - Nationwide
3 years ranked
INDIVIDUAL PROFILE
Adam Fleisher
FinTech 2026
Ranked in 1 practice area
About
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Practice Areas
Adam works with innovative companies as they navigate the complex financial services regulatory landscape. Leveraging a broad and deep payments regulatory practice with unique knowledge and perspective on money transmission, Adam advises clients at every point of the enterprise life cycle, from early-stage and emerging enterprises to publicly traded corporations.
Adam focuses on various issue areas, including:
* State money transmitter licensing laws (as applied to both fiat money and cryptocurrency)
* Regulation E (including the Remittance Rule and the rules applicable to prepaid accounts)
* Federal anti-money laundering laws such as the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) and the Prepaid Access Rule
* The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) and other privacy and information security laws and regulations
* State and federal gift card laws (including the Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009, or Credit CARD Act)
* Unfair, deceptive, or abusive acts or practices (UDAAP) compliance
* Rules administered by payment card networks and Nacha
* Other rules and regulations applicable to fiat and cryptocurrency payments-related activities
Chambers Review
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Professional Advisers: FinTech
FinTech Legal: Payments & Lending - USA - Nationwide
Band 2
Individual Editorial
Adam Fleisher is experienced in payments and is a money transmitter expert. His clients include peer-to-peer payments providers, electronic wallet platform providers and payroll and payment processors.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
Adam has been an excellent partner to have when navigating the regulatory requirements and changes that faced our company. He's very communicative and incredibly knowledgeable and approachable.
FinTech Legal: Payments & LendingProfessional Advisers: FinTechAdam is a strong, practical and business-oriented regulatory lawyer. He's our go-to for US payments laws and regulations. He's practical, responsive and always solution-focused.
FinTech Legal: Payments & LendingProfessional Advisers: FinTechAdam has been a critical partner in the development of our banking and FinTech products.
FinTech Legal: Payments & LendingProfessional Advisers: FinTechAdam is a forward-thinking thought leader on debit card products, payments and other issues in the financial services space. He's an expert and is super knowledgeable, accessible and responsive.
FinTech Legal: Payments & LendingProfessional Advisers: FinTechAdam has tremendous practical and technical knowledge, with an ability to conduct quality research, effectively advocate and balance interests and develop effective positions during negotiations.
FinTech Legal: Payments & LendingProfessional Advisers: FinTech
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