Fintech and Financial Services

At the forefront of innovation, Wilson Sonsini’s Fintech and Financial Services Group provides creative and compliant solutions to resolve complex regulatory and transactional issues faced by innovative companies in the financial services sector. We guide clients through complex and shifting legal and regulatory landscapes, providing practical counsel for innovative business lines within a sound legal framework.

Broad Expertise

Our attorneys have extensive experience across fintech and financial services sub-sectors:

  • Wealthtech platforms, including those offering alternative investment platforms.
  • Payments and banking providers, including neo-banks, virtual credit card issuers, online personal finance platforms, open banking apps, and innovative money services businesses and money transmitters.  
  • Blockchain and digital currency-related businesses, including Web 3.0 projects and blockchain-based gaming platforms, blockchain-based securities and settlement platforms, and decentralized finance platforms.
  • AI-based fintechs, including fraud detection platforms, AI-based investment modeling, alternative data providers, and others. 

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Join Our Fintech and Financial Services Team

Office:
New York
Washington, D.C.
Practice:
Fintech and Financial Services

Rare opportunity to join a small, growing, and creative practice group focused on working with Fintech and Financial Services clients to build new payments products and platforms. This is an exciting time to be a part of this practice group. The position will involve significant mentoring and interaction with partners, the chance to take leadership in the group and the firm, and the ability to play an entrepreneurial role in building a practice.

At Wilson Sonsini, we represent the pioneers and disruptors associated with market-changing innovation in technology. The position will have the opportunity to represent financial technology innovators and work exclusively in fintech and financial services, representing startups and founder-led companies across all stages, from pre-formation to capital markets.

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  • Client Highlight

    Pismo

    Visa signed a definitive agreement to acquire Pismo, a cloud-native issuer processing and core banking platform with operations in Latin America, Asia Pacific, and Europe, for $1 billion in cash. Wilson Sonsini advised Pismo on the transaction.