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We work with financial institutions, payment processors, leading technology companies, and emerging FinTechs to advise on consumer financial products, both traditional and emerging. In addition to deep legal expertise, we provide value in numerous ways.

Business Fluency

We've spent years working alongside clients on product development, regulatory matters, transactions, and litigation, including as in-house counsel or on secondments. We offer practical advice that can be easily communicated to, and implemented by, your business and management teams.

Strategic Industry Insight

Our team is fully integrated across all of the relevant legal disciplines, and our work in one area reinforces and strengthens our ability to provide insight beyond legal counsel in others.

Regulatory and Compliance
We help you address even the most complex regulatory requirements when you design innovative products and services. We can advise on best practices, business strategy, and potential risks when you move into new business lines or face new or changing regulations.

Transactional
We’ve done hundreds of deals in the payments space for financial and non-financial institutions. We know the consultants, the law firms, and the market.

Enforcement, Investigations, and Litigation
Our team includes former federal and state regulators. We can advise on how to address the business and reputational concerns that arise from supervisory and enforcement actions or litigation as well as provide insight into how regulators will approach the proceedings.

Our Approach

Our job is to help you manage risk, reduce stress, and increase your bandwidth. We’re always available and responsive. We communicate effectively and efficiently. And we work collaboratively with you to minimize friction with everyone from counterparties in a deal to state and federal regulators.
You have to be ready
For James Mann, partner in our Consumer Financial Services team, meeting client objectives means mastering all sides of a deal—regulatory, business, and personal.

Our Capabilities

Whether you're an emerging company developing a privacy policy or a global financial institution in need of sophisticated regulatory analysis, we can help.

Bank Regulatory

We assist banks and financial services firms in navigating a complex, ever-evolving regulatory landscape, advising our clients on managing their regulatory, compliance, and supervisory risks by finding the right solutions for their business need.

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Enforcement & Investigations

We navigate clients through regulatory scrutiny and difficult investigations while minimizing cost, disruption, and reputational impact.

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FinTech

Our cross-functional FinTech team can help you balance speed-to-market with compliance requirements.

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Mortgage & Home Lending

DWT's team draws on its firsthand knowledge to aid bank and non-bank mortgage lenders, loan servicers, secondary market investors, and FinTechs in all aspects of mortgage lending and servicing-related enforcement, supervision, regulatory counseling, and complex litigation.

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Regulatory & Compliance

Whether we're providing a global financial institution deep insight into a specific issue or offering holistic guidance to an emerging FinTech, our goal is the same: to provide practical, business-focused recommendations that help you address regulatory and compliance challenges.

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Transactions

Through the volume, variety, size, sophistication, and strategic nature of our work, we've gained experience that enables us to assist clients with their most material and challenging deals.

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Financial Services Law Advisor

Visit Our Blog
Aerial view of houses Link to /blogs/financial-services-law-advisor/2020/06/covid-19-mortgage-relief-updates
06.17.20
Blog Post
Regulatory and Compliance
Nearing Three Months In – More Updates on Mortgage Relief Efforts, Regulatory Guidance, and Emerging Areas of Concern Read More Link to /blogs/financial-services-law-advisor/2020/06/covid-19-mortgage-relief-updates
Abstract stock chart Link to /blogs/financial-services-law-advisor/2020/06/office-comptroller-currency-fintech-initiatives
06.18.20
Blog Post
OCC Fintech Charter
Back to the Future for the OCC Under New Acting Comptroller Brian Brooks Read More Link to /blogs/financial-services-law-advisor/2020/06/office-comptroller-currency-fintech-initiatives
Stack of letters Link to /blogs/financial-services-law-advisor/2020/05/new-cfpb-no-action-warning-letters
05.29.20
Blog Post
Regulatory and Compliance
CFPB Introduces New No-Action Letter Templates Read More Link to /blogs/financial-services-law-advisor/2020/05/new-cfpb-no-action-warning-letters
Details
Empire FinTech Conference New York City 2021
10.19.21
New York, NY
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Industry Contacts

Goetz, Claude P.
Claude P. Goetz
Partner
Co-chair, Banking and Financial Services Practice
New York
212.603.6415
Hardin, Brad
Bradford Hardin
Partner
Co-chair, Banking and Financial Services Practice
Washington, D.C.
202.973.4238

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