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FinTech

The financial services industry is experiencing an unprecedented technology revolution. Recent studies predict that worldwide IT spending for financial services will reach $500 billion before decade’s end, and FinTech investment has tripled globally since 2008.
 
The increased complexity of financial products, stringent oversight and regulation, and the need to improve profitability and streamline processes are driving financial institutions and financial services participants to deploy a growing range of finance-related software. As one of the only law firms with market-leading technology and financial industry practices, Goodwin has been advising clients in the FinTech sector for over a decade and has extensive experience working with both established and emerging businesses in virtually all market segments.
 
Our FinTech attorneys – supported by strong and well-established cross-disciplinary teams in private equity, intellectual property litigation, consumer financial services litigation, business litigation and government investigations – are committed to providing outstanding client service and offer practical, strategic and cost-effective counsel.
 
With significant depth of experience, a wide footprint in key industry markets and diverse and dynamic clients, Goodwin is uniquely positioned as a “one-stop” shop for FinTech clients pursuing strategic transactions, regulatory compliance and litigation matters.


FinTech Sector Experience includes:

  • Bank processes - Core bank processors, electronic data storage, encryption technology, peer-to-peer lending, loans & mortgages
  • Capital markets - Exchanges, trading & risk management, trading platforms and facilitators, securities processing, risk management, investment management
  • Payments – digital currency, networks, processors, prepayment cards, E-commerce money transfer, ATM processing, hardware/software
  • Insurance
  • Financial Information Services
  • Payroll/HR/HCM

Representative Services:

  • Private equity and venture capital financing
  • M&A Transactions
  • IPOs and other exits
  • Joint ventures, strategic alliances, outsourcing
  • IP counseling, prosecution, licensing, and litigation
  • Securities and bank regulatory counseling, licensing, and litigation
  • Privacy and cybersecurity compliance counseling, analytics, and litigation
  • Defense of AG, FTC, and other government enforcement actions
PitchBook
Ranked Top 5 law firm for venture capital financings for the past two years
SNL Financial
Ranked Among Top Law Firms for M&A in FinTech.

Publications

in Founders Workbench
Building a business can be daunting. Founders Workbench is a resource to help ease the process.
September 14, 2016
FinTech Flash
Factoring and MCAs to Be Covered by the California Finance Lenders Law?
March 13, 2018
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SEC Director Clears Path for Secondary Sales of Security Tokens as Non-Securities, Declares Bitcoin and Ether Non-Securities
June 15, 2018
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in Digital Currency Perspectives
SEC Director Clears Path for Secondary Sales of Security Tokens as Non-Securities, Declares Bitcoin and Ether Non-Securities
June 15, 2018
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SEC Director Clears Path for Secondary Sales of Security Tokens as Non-Securities, Declares Bitcoin and Ether Non-Securities
June 15, 2018
Weekly RoundUp
Financial Services Weekly News
June 13, 2018
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News

FEATURE: FinTech, Regulation, and the Law (Blue Dun)
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BYLINE: Why Bank-Fintech Partnerships are Here to Stay (Bank Director)
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Brian McPeake Named to Daily Journal’s 40 Under 40 List
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PRESS: ‘One Size Fits All’ Regulation Simply Doesn’t Work (CFO Magazine)
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Amber R. Dolman

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Email +1 617 570 1538 Boston
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Robert E. Bishop

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Brian C. McPeake

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Email +1 415 733 6077 San Francisco
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Mike Whalen

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Email +1 202 346 4315 Washington, DC
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As a growing technology company, your prospects are exciting and your challenges are unique – from securing funding, protecting IP, and navigating the regulatory environment, to differentiating yourself in the marketplace, managing customer acquisition and scaling your business. We get it. Our dedicated team of technology company lawyers is proud to bring a comprehensive, coordinated approach that interconnects business, new technologies and the law.

For technology companies of all sizes, the pace and pressure can be relentless: create, innovate, revise, compete, survive, grow, thrive. As a leading technology company law firm, Goodwin  shares your entrepreneurial spirit. We partner with you to grow your business and realize your potential more effectively – with a combination of legal experience and business savvy that can scale with management teams from the earliest stages of development through mature public company. We developed Founders Workbench, a free online legal advisory resource to help entrepreneurs navigate some of the most common legal and organizational challenges facing start-ups and emerging companies.

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  • IP protection
  • licensing
  • commercial agreements
  • venture financing to IPOs
  • M&A
  • corporate governance
  • board matters and more.

With nearly 200 lawyers dedicated to advising technology companies, Goodwin has one of the largest and most recognized technology practices in the United States. Consistently rated in the top five most active of all law firms for venture capital, IPOs and M&A, we draw on our deep experience and network of clients and investors to provide the most effective and efficient counsel for today’s emerging companies.

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Consumer financial services companies face a broad spectrum of issues unique to the industry, and you need counsel that understands the challenges the industry faces. With one of the most preeminent consumer financial services litigation practice groups in the nation, our lawyers know your industry. With experience in regulatory counseling and examinations, government investigations, enforcement proceedings, and litigation, we defend many of the nation’s largest financial institutions, including prominent banks, mortgage companies, credit card issuers, and insurers, in high-stakes consumer financial services litigation cases and government enforcement actions across the country.
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As a growing technology company, your prospects are exciting and your challenges are unique – from securing funding, protecting IP, and navigating the regulatory environment, to differentiating yourself in the marketplace, managing customer acquisition and scaling your business. We get it. Our dedicated team of technology company lawyers is proud to bring a comprehensive, coordinated approach that interconnects business, new technologies and the law.

For technology companies of all sizes, the pace and pressure can be relentless: create, innovate, revise, compete, survive, grow, thrive. As a leading technology company law firm, Goodwin  shares your entrepreneurial spirit. We partner with you to grow your business and realize your potential more effectively – with a combination of legal experience and business savvy that can scale with management teams from the earliest stages of development through mature public company. We developed Founders Workbench, a free online legal advisory resource to help entrepreneurs navigate some of the most common legal and organizational challenges facing start-ups and emerging companies.

We support clients at all stages of the corporate life cycle, including:

  • legal advisory related to company formation
  • IP protection
  • licensing
  • commercial agreements
  • venture financing to IPOs
  • M&A
  • corporate governance
  • board matters and more.

With nearly 200 lawyers dedicated to advising technology companies, Goodwin has one of the largest and most recognized technology practices in the United States. Consistently rated in the top five most active of all law firms for venture capital, IPOs and M&A, we draw on our deep experience and network of clients and investors to provide the most effective and efficient counsel for today’s emerging companies.

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In the face of a competitive marketplace, elite private equity firms expect counsel with extensive experience and a stable of blue chip relationships. That’s why private equity firms have been entrusting their deals to Goodwin for decades. Our Private Equity team ranks as one of the top in the United States, and we are on a trajectory of rapid ascent, both in the U.S. and worldwide. The group is a market leader in the expansive middle market sector, having earned a reputation for notable buyouts, growth equity deals and growth company representations in key sectors such as technology, healthcare, financial and business services, consumer and manufacturing. 
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