Rebecca J Simmons

Practice Areas

Cybersecurity

Capital Markets

Financial Services

Bank Regulatory

Bankruptcy Litigation

Broker-Dealer

Commodities, Futures & Derivatives

Digital Assets

Fintech

Restructuring

Privacy

Venture Capital & Emerging Growth Companies

Career

Partner since 2000. Rebecca Simmons is a partner in the Firm’s Financial Services and Capital Markets Groups, head of its payments practice and co-head of its FinTech practice. She represents clients in the development of payments, settlement, clearing and other FinTech businesses and systems; in regulated transactions such as the development of new lines of business and corporate acquisitions; in the structuring and development of financial products, novel securities and structured transactions; and in insolvency related matters and resolution planning, including living wills. Her practice areas include U.S. banking and commodities laws and regulation, payments, technology and outsourcing matters, derivatives structuring and regulation, U.S. securities laws, capital markets transactions, bankruptcy and insolvency issues relating to complex transactions, and corporate restructuring.

Ms. Simmons leads S&C’s payments practice and resolution planning practice. Her insolvency-related practice addresses insolvency and bankruptcy matters inherent in structuring transactions and business relationships, the restructuring and resolution of failed financial institutions, and resolution planning in response to U.S. and other regulatory requirements. Her work includes assisting payment and clearing systems in assessing and addressing the risk posed by potential member defaults. She also continues to represent a range of clients in derivatives, structured products and other transactions, financial institutions in capital markets and related transactions, and non-U.S. banks with respect to the financing and operation of their U.S. operations.

Professional Memberships

ABA; ABI; FIA; INSOL International; NYCBA; NYSBA (Former Chair, Business Law Section and Committee on Futures Regulation); SIFMA (Compliance and Legal Division)

Personal

Columbia Law School (JD, 1991); Harvard University (AB, 1984).