Rhys McWhirter

Rhys’ representative clients include:

Technology

• Bending Spoons
• Jio Platforms
• Meta Platforms
• Reap Technologies
• Tools for Humanity
• YCO Global Cloud Centers

Financial Services

• HongShan Capital Advisors
• Prudential Holdings
• Techcombank

Rhys’ experience includes advising:

Technology

• Reap Technologies, a leading stablecoin-native, card issuing and payments infrastructure company enabling global money movement, in its US$600 million sale to Payward, Inc.
• Bending Spoons on its US$1.38 billion acquisition of Vimeo, the leading video platform for business
• Acclime Holdings Limited on selling the Acclime Group of companies, a pan-Asian corporate services business headquartered in Hong Kong, to funds controlled by Warburg Pincus
• Multiple global and regional airlines across Asia and the Middle East on renegotiating their PSS and distribution arrangements with Amadeus IT Group, Sabre, Travelport, Travelsky, Accelya, and Farelogix*
• A global bank over several years on its colocation data center strategy across Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Korea*
• A global bank on implementing a new core banking solution to support its retail and wholesale business units*
• A global technology provider on licensing its core banking solution to multiple global and regional financial institutions throughout Hong Kong, Singapore, Korea, Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Australia*
• A global data center provider on various regulatory and outsourcing compliance matters in Singapore and Australia*
• A global consortium of banks in Hong Kong on establishing and operating eTradeConnect*
• A global insurance company on implementing and operating a new EPOS solution to support its business operations throughout Africa*

Financial Services

• Chatham Financial Corporation on data privacy and cybersecurity matters of its acquisition of Hodes Weill
• A global bank in Hong Kong on Hong Kong’s first tokenized deposit service*
• A global technology and organization over several years on its payment regulatory compliance matters (i.e., merchant acquiring and payment remittance arrangements) throughout Asia and LATAM*
• A global bank on deploying a blockchain platform to facilitate treasury management operation for a large corporate customer*
• A global payments company on its APAC compliance matters*
• A global scheme/network provider on regulatory compliance matters regarding wallet top-up and disposal*
• A global fintech company on its award-winning innovative distributed ledger repo (DLR) solution in Hong Kong*
• A global bank on a significant global digital merchant acquiring project, such that the bank will offer comprehensive end-to-end payments and settlement clearance services to a diverse range of merchants, encompassing various payment methods*

Privacy and Cyber

• A global airline on the end-to-end due diligence of surveying up to 5,000 third-party arrangements to assess compliance with Hong Kong, mainland China, and UK/EU data protection laws*
• A global manufacturing client on its end-to-end data privacy compliance program regarding mainland China’s PIPL*
• A critical financial services institution over several years on its cross-border data privacy disclosures, direct marketing, and cyber-readiness program, including preparing the necessary data cyber incident framework documentation and associate collateral*
• A global insurance company on its mainland China compliance program*
• An aerospace and defense industry company in relation to its mainland China compliance program*
• One of the world’s largest ecommerce and technology companies on data breach incident matters throughout APAC*

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham