Latham Earns Top Fintech Rankings Globally
Firm recognized in Legal 500 and Chambers for depth and breadth of capabilities across globally integrated practices and track record of landmark mandates.
Latham’s Payments Practice helps clients of all types and sizes navigate the myriad of regulatory, transactional, and general corporate issues impacting the payments sector.
Latham works with a diverse range of clients, including:
Latham’s integrated global team provides pragmatic, commercially focused advice across the range of legal and regulatory challenges associated with developing, using, operating, or expanding the geographic reach of various offerings, such as:
Latham helps clients understand their legal obligations, an often daunting task amidst increasingly stringent regulatory scrutiny in the payments sector. Latham lawyers draw on a sophisticated understanding of the federal, state, and international laws regulating the industry, as well as a practical understanding of the requirements and expectations of the various administering regulatory agencies.
Latham provides thoughtful, clear, and forward-looking counsel on:
Significantly, Latham also helps facilitate stakeholder feedback to authorities by keeping clients abreast of legislative and regulatory developments, and opportunities to comment in response to new trends and policies.
Latham combines market-leading transactional practices with comprehensive regulatory and industry knowledge, and a keen understanding of the technology that underpins the sector to guide clients successfully through a wide range of transactional matters. In particular, Latham draws on extensive experience structuring and negotiating various commercial arrangements, including those related to the offering of new products and services, bank and network sponsorships, and agency and processing relationships.
The firm also leverages a significant track record of advising clients on payments and fintech-related M&A, joint ventures, and private equity matters. Notably, Latham has advised clients on the acquisition, sale, or investment — and related due diligence — of financial institutions and other companies in the payments sector.
Latham lawyers in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and the US can leverage the firm’s global platform to efficiently advise clients on matters that may also relate to other financial regulatory areas, as well as data privacy and cybersecurity, economic sanctions and anti-money laundering, M&A, private equity, technology transactions, intellectual property and software licensing, outsourcing, e-commerce, and telecommunications technology, among others.
Firm recognized in Legal 500 and Chambers for depth and breadth of capabilities across globally integrated practices and track record of landmark mandates.
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