Jeremy M. McLaughlin

Jeremy McLaughlin leads the firm's Payments, Banking Regulation, and Consumer Financial Services practice group, and co-chairs both the Fintech industry group and the Digital Assets, Blockchain Technology and Cryptocurrencies industry group. 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 is a regular speaker at fintech and cryptocurrency conferences both in the United States and abroad and is a regular contributor to the Fintech and Blockchain Law Watch blog.

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 and cryptocurrency platforms.

Jeremy also has experience assisting with litigation matters, focusing on dispositive motions and appeals, particularly in cases regarding consumer financial services laws. He has prepared over 10 briefs for the US Supreme Court and dozens of briefs for various state and federal appellate courts. He has argued before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.