Michael Lewis

MICHAEL LEWIS represents domestic and international financial institutions, their investors, and their counterparties in connection with federal and state banking laws. Michael counsels clients on a broad range of regulatory compliance and licensing matters as well as the regulatory aspects of mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, minority investments, and other transactions. His experience includes advising on complex investment authority and regulatory structure questions, “control” issues, development of new financial products and services, bank resolution and receivership issues, Fintech investments, the Volcker Rule, prudential regulation of banking organizations, affiliate transactions, U.S. operations of foreign banking organizations, and cryptocurrency and digital assets. He regularly interacts with the staffs of federal and state bank regulatory agencies and frequently prepares and files applications and other submissions to those agencies.