David E Teitelbaum

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DAVID E. TEITELBAUM is a partner in Sidley’s Banking and Financial Services group, which received the 2019 Chambers USA Award for Financial Services Regulation. David has a broad regulatory practice for all types of entities involved in our payments and financial systems, including insured depository institutions and their holding companies, payment processors and systems, money transmitters, virtual currency businesses, prepaid program managers, technology providers, investors and retailers. He assists these companies in the wide range of regulatory issues that impact their business by providing a combination of thoughtful regulatory guidance, solution-oriented transactional assistance and strategic legislative planning. He routinely helps companies structure payment and other fintech products to minimize regulatory burden, negotiate commercial agreements for the support and distribution of those products and create customer interfaces and disclosures that balance regulatory requirements and business needs. David has been involved in the evolution of financial technology from early payments and cash management innovations through today’s cutting edge projects involving blockchain-based technologies as a form of payment, as a utility in support of a wide range of financial activities and as an asset class for investment.