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Fintech

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An innovative product or service with an intuitive user interface is essential for fintech success. Equally important is balancing the need to build regulatory and compliance infrastructure with a focus on speed to market.

Overview

Our integrated team of financial services, technology, privacy, and corporate lawyers—recognized as leaders in the nation by Chambers FinTech—takes a collaborative approach to helping financial institutions, emerging fintechs, and other companies launch innovative products or invest in new solutions.

We work with every part of the fintech ecosystem and can help clear the hurdles—regulatory, organizational, and cultural—companies face when launching new products. We can help you identify potential pitfalls and emerging trends as you put your plan together. And, we scale our team and level of involvement to wherever you are in your development life cycle. By collaborating with clients and applying people, process, and technology in new ways, we deliver efficient service that focuses on helping you meet both legal and strategic goals. We also design fee arrangements that focus on cost certainty and value delivered.

Client Activities in Fintech

We've assisted clients with a wide range of fintech products and services, including, but not limited to:

Alternative and marketplace lending
Bill-payment solutions
Crowd sourcing/funding
Cryptocurrencies, authentication systems and platforms
Digital wallets of all kinds
Innovations in retail banking (such as internet banking)
Mobile, in-app, e-commerce or POS payment solutions
Online financial platforms
P2P money transfers and remittances
Trading platforms
Transaction monitoring and screening systems
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Market Insights

We are active, engaged members of the fintech community who offer insight into legal, business, and strategic challenges.


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.

Financial Services

DWT offers a powerful combination of talent and experience in its mission to guide financial innovators of today through legal challenges that will shape the financial services of tomorrow.

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Technology + Privacy & Security

We focus on the interplay between the law, technology, and privacy and data security to provide you with practical and cost-effective solutions that enable your business to succeed.
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Corporate & Business Transactions

From daily operation to defining moments, our corporate and business transactions team works shoulder to shoulder with you to help advance your interests.
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Patent

Innovation is how your business stands apart in a competitive market. We protect those innovations - and help you maximize their value.

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Financial Privacy, Security & Open Banking

DWT's Financial Privacy, Security and Open Banking team is a cross-practice, multi-disciplinary group of attorneys with expertise in banking and payments, fintech, privacy and data security, and technology transactions.
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Industry Contacts

Lorentz, Andrew J.
Andy Lorentz
Partner
Co-chair, Financial Services Practice
Washington, D.C.
202.973.4232

Our Team

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Adams, Scott
Scott Adams
Partner
Seattle
206.757.8002
Ariely, Assaf
Assaf Ariely
Associate
New York
212.603.6436
Aulakh, Amit S.
Amit S. Aulakh
Counsel
New York
212.603.6472
Louisa V2
Louisa Barash
Partner
Seattle
206.757.8275
Beres, Ella
Ella Beres
Associate
Washington, D.C.
202.661.7025
Bergmann, Larry
Larry E. Bergmann
Of Counsel
Washington, D.C.
202.661.7032
Brandiss, Chava
Chava Brandriss
Partner
Washington, D.C.
202.973.4258
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Don Buder
Partner
San Francisco
415.276.6593
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Michael Caughey
Partner
Seattle
206.757.8272
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Stephen J. Crimmins
Partner
Washington, D.C.New York
202.661.7031
212.880.3624
Cromwell, David L.
David L. Cromwell
Partner
Seattle
206.757.8033
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Partner
Washington, D.C.
202.220.1933
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