Financial service providers connect every element of the economy while balancing service, profitability, and compliance in a highly regulated industry. The financial services attorneys at Woods Rogers offer sophisticated guidance on the commercial, legal, and regulatory issues facing this key sector—from traditional banking matters to Financial Technology (FinTech) innovations, data privacy, and cybersecurity.
Regulatory Compliance
Our attorneys provide counsel in the following areas:
- Asset-Based Lending, construction, and permanent financing
- Bank Secrecy Act
- Capital markets
- Commercial finance
- Corporate governance
- Creditors rights
- Investigations and enforcement actions
- Long- and short-term debt
- Provider agreements
- Regulatory compliance and enforcement
- Special purpose lending/consumer credit
- Truth in Lending
- Uniform Commercial Code
Financial Technology
FinTech innovations continue to transform the ways in which companies offer financial products and services to consumers and businesses. Our attorneys can advise clients on the compelling new business opportunities these innovations are creating, whether in connection with online lending and payment platforms, cryptocurrency exchange activities, alternative payment providers, or other digital services.
Our attorneys counsel clients on issues relating to the development of FinTech products and services, including online terms of use, state licensing, privacy and cybersecurity, federal anti-money laundering, and partnerships between banks and FinTech lenders. We also prepare 50-state surveys for clients in the FinTech space, covering issues such as interest and usury, consumer finance compliance, and money transmitter licensing.
Areas of Focus
Our commercial lending attorneys have represented lenders, arrangers, purchasers, sponsors, and specialty lenders, as well as non-bank borrowers, in billions of dollars of commercial loan closings and related financings. We have decades of experience handling the most complex, sophisticated lending structures and helping clients achieve a careful balance between risk and reward.
Credit unions play an important role in the financial marketplace. Their non-profit model leads to unique challenges and opportunities. Woods Rogers has a team of attorneys who understand the needs of credit union clients, whether it's general regulatory compliance, FinTech opportunities, mergers & acquisitions, or employment concerns.
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