Practice Areas
Eric Mitzenmacher provides regulatory compliance advice to companies that offer various consumer and small business financial products and services, as well as conducting regulatory due diligence reviews on behalf of investors in, and financing sources for, such companies. Eric’s experience spans the lifecycle of a typical financial services company, including initial program development, day-to-day compliance, due diligence in connection with transactions from financings and asset purchases to mergers and acquisitions, and government examinations and enforcement actions.
Eric has significant experience advising lenders, service providers, and investors on compliance obligations under federal and state law. His experience covers a range of products and program structures, including Fintech and marketplace lending programs, retail and home improvement financing, credit cards, student lending and education financing, general-purpose unsecured credit, and small business lending and alternative financing. He regularly provides guidance on federal consumer financial laws such as the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA), Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), Military Lending Act (MLA), Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA), Truth in Lending Act (TILA), and prohibitions on unfair, deceptive, and abusive acts and practices (UDAAP). He also advises companies regarding state law requirements, including licensing, usury and other restrictions on product terms, and disclosures, and the preemption of state requirements by federal banking and consumer financial laws.