Jeremy M. McLaughlin

Jeremy McLaughlin leads the firm's Payments, Bank Regulatory, and Consumer Financial Services group, and co-chairs the Digital Asset industry group. He is based in San Francisco. His practice focuses on regulatory compliance and enforcement for fintechs, digital asset and cryptocurrency companies, and other consumer financial products and services, including emerging payment and prepaid products.

Jeremy represents a broad range of clients across the financial services, fintech, and digital assets industries, from startups to blockchain platforms to some of the world's largest financial institutions. They include money services businesses, cryptocurrency exchanges, token issuers (including NFTs), digital wallet providers, DeFi platforms, banks, retailers, credit and prepaid card companies, and lenders.

Jeremy counsels clients on compliance with a wide range of laws, including state and federal consumer protection laws, money transmitter laws, international remittances, anti-money laundering laws, abandoned property laws, gift card rules, sweepstakes laws, and payment network rules. He helps clients negotiate and draft agreements involving payment technologies and licensing issues, custodial arrangements, and draft terms and conditions and disclosures for new products. He also serves as regulatory counsel in connection with investments, including conducting due diligences of payment companies and digital asset/cryptocurrency platforms.

Jeremy is a regular speaker at fintech and cryptocurrency conferences and a regular contributor to the FinTech Law Blog.