Financial Services
The financial services industry is undergoing dramatic transformation, and DWT is helping the largest and most innovative players navigate the new risks that come with it. Our Chambers-recognized team addresses matters spanning transactional, regulatory, and enforcement issues for clients including large banking institutions, broker-dealers, payment processors, and fintechs ranging from startups to unicorns.
What People Are Saying
"DWT has the knowledge and resources needed to take on any type of question and provide the right response and guidance."
"Davis Wright Tremaine provides trusted counsel on payments, lending, consumer regulatory advice, technology transactions, M&A and data protection matters. The firm wins praise from sources for its legal and regulatory advice on significant payments matters in the US."
"DWT sets itself apart in terms pragmatism. They feel like subject-matter expert extensions to our in-house team that allow us to make clear-eyed, risk-based decisions for the company."
Our Capabilities
Our financial services group brings vast regulatory experience, dealmaking knowledge, and enforcement acumen together in one department. More than 25 of our financial services attorneys have experience in government, many in senior leadership positions. All bring special experience and talent to their work across the full spectrum of financial services issues.
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.
Commodities & Derivatives
Our lawyers draw on their wealth of experience in the highest levels of government, industry, and private practice to counsel members of the commodities and derivatives industry on a variety of formation, compliance, regulatory, and litigation matters.
Digital Assets & Blockchain
DWT advises clients on the panoply of legal and business issues surrounding digital assets, including cryptocurrencies, stablecoins, NFTs, and the blockchain technology that powers them.
Financial Privacy, Security & Open Banking
Financial Services Enforcement & Litigation
No matter the financial products involved, the nature of the proceedings, or the forums in which the proceedings are set, we represent financial services providers and other clients in their most significant disputes.
Fintech
Our cross-functional fintech team can help you balance speed-to-market with compliance requirements.
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.
Banking & Payments, Consumer Regulatory
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.
Securities Regulatory
We advise exchanges, broker-dealers, and other market participants on all trading-related regulatory compliance issues in the equities and options markets.
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.
Financial Services Are Changing
Helping clients thrive in this changing ecosystem is at the core of our mission at Davis Wright Tremaine. Learn more about our full-service platform.
Get to Know Us
Bradford Hardin describes how DWT's financial services team helps clients at all stages of development achieve their business objectives.
Financial services partner Jonathan Engel describes how relationships define our service philosophy.
Chava Brandriss, a partner in our financial services practice, says that providing value means finding out what’s most important to the client.
Chris Ford explains how he steps into the shoes of his clients to understand their issues and recommend a path forward.