Jarryd Anderson

Jarryd Anderson is a nationally recognized banking and financial services regulatory lawyer and chair of Ropes & Gray’s financial services group. He advises U.S. and non-U.S. banking organizations, nonbank financial institutions, asset managers, fintech companies, and trade associations on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, and regulatory, supervisory, and enforcement matters.

With experience at the Federal Reserve, major financial institutions, and in private practice, Jarryd counsels clients on their most critical transactions, strategic business initiatives, and complex regulatory challenges across the banking and financial services sector. He helps clients navigate issues arising under key banking laws and regulations, including the Dodd-Frank Act, the Bank Holding Company Act, the Change in Bank Control Act, the National Bank Act, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Act. His practice encompasses bank powers and activities, charters and applications, capital and liquidity requirements, Volcker Rule compliance, anti-money laundering, and other areas of bank regulation. He regularly represents clients before the federal banking agencies and Congress and is widely recognized for his insight into emerging regulatory and policy developments.

Jarryd previously served as a regulatory policy advisor in the Supervision and Regulation Division of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, where he played a key role in implementing significant aspects of the Dodd-Frank Act and other high-priority initiatives, including post-crisis recovery and resolution planning, rulemakings, and interagency and cross-border policy development. He also held senior in-house positions at two global systemically important banks and at a leading banking trade association. He currently serves as a member of the FDIC Systemic Resolution Advisory Committee.

Jarryd has advised leading financial institutions and organizations such as the American Bankers Association, Allied Irish Banks, Automatic Data Processing, Capital One, Citigroup, the independent directors of First Republic Bank, Flagstar Financial, Google, Nasdaq, Oak Hill Advisors, PNC Bank, Shinhan Financial Group, TD Bank, UBS, Wells Fargo & Co., and Western Alliance Bank.

He is consistently recognized as a leading banking and financial services regulatory lawyer by Chambers USA and Chambers Global, where clients praise his “terrific understanding of regulatory policy and great judgment” and his ability to “take complex subjects and break [them] down to someone without a legal background.” He has also been recognized in Lawdragon’s “500 Leading Dealmakers in America,” “Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation,” Bloomberg Law’s “They’ve Got Next: 40 Under 40,” and Savoy’s “Most Influential Lawyers.”

Prior to joining Ropes & Gray, Jarryd was a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of another international law firm.