FinTech
Our FinTech group works with the industry’s most innovative and successful financial technology companies, venture capital funds, and financial institutions. With an extensive focus on venture-backed technology companies, we help our clients innovate, invest, and thrive. From pre-seed through to initial public offering, our lawyers assist in all aspects of our clients’ successes, helping some of the most ambitious technological disruptors redefine and democratize the financial services industry. Our clients include mobile brokerage platforms, robo-advisors, digital asset trading venues, market-makers, liquidity providers, SaaS companies, nontraditional digital lenders, digital asset service providers, and digital asset funds.
Our cross-disciplinary team of lawyers work collectively to support our FinTech clients across a range of commercial and regulatory matters spanning:
- Non-Fungible Token (“NFT”) offerings
- Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (“DAO”) projects
- Web3 blockchain applications, decentralized finance (“DeFi”), staking, peer-to-peer cryptocurrency lending, cryptocurrency yield product offerings, and cryptocurrency advisory platforms
- Pre-IPO liquidity financing, trading, and alternative product solutions
- Multi-jurisdictional cryptocurrency, remittance, and payment products
- FINRA membership applications for technology-first mobile brokerage platforms
- Non-traditional robo-advisory registration with the SEC
- New York BitLicense applications and state money transmitter licensing
- Regulation A and Regulation CF platforms
- Intellectual property and commercial contracts involving blockchain, digital assets, algorithmic cryptocurrency trading, exchange as-a-service, and human/machine authentication
- Compliance with Know Your Customer (“KYC”) and Anti-Money Laundering (“AML”) regulations
Taking a multi-disciplinary, cross-functional approach, we carefully anticipate and evaluate the technical, legal, business, compliance, and regulatory issues facing our clients. Our attorneys work exhaustively advising our clients with respect to an array of U.S. federal and state regulatory regimes. This includes and is largely focused on matters before the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc., the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and the New York Department of Financial Services, as well as numerous other individual state securities and banking regulators.
