Donald Mosher

Bank Regulatory, Blockchain Technology & Digital Assets, Financial Institutions, Regulatory & Compliance

Donald J. Mosher, co-head of the firm’s Bank Regulatory Group, focuses his practice on the regulation, acquisition and sale of payments companies and money transmitters, licensing and registration of traditional and non-traditional money services businesses (including online transmitters, global B2B providers and cryptocurrency exchanges) and the laws and practices applicable to mobile, digital, virtual, electronic, paper- and card-based payment products and systems. Don has represented leading banks, payments companies, card associations, money transmitters and private equity firms in transactional and regulatory matters associated with payments, prepaid cards, digital currencies and money transmission. Don recently served as regulatory counsel to Trans-Fast Remittance, a leading money transmitter, in connection with its pending acquisition by MasterCard International; First Data Corporation, a leading payment processor to merchants and financial institutions, in connection its pending acquisition by Fiserv, and Cambridge Global Payments, a leading B2B international payments provider, in its acquisition by FLEETCOR Technologies, Inc. Don also represented Travelex Group, the world’s largest foreign exchange company, in connection with its acquisition by a consortium led by the owner of UAE Exchange, a leading global money transfer and foreign exchange provider, and Centurion Investments, an Abu Dhabi-based private equity firm; Priority Payments, in its merger with Cynergy Data, creating one of the largest merchant acquirers in the nation; Securus Technologies in its acquisition of JPay Inc., the market-leading technology company that introduced electronic payments to the corrections space, and Securus Technologies in its subsequent acquisition by Platinum Equity affiliated funds; and Gary Jonas Computing Ltd., in its acquisition of substantially all the assets of Club Solutions Inc., a leading provider of payment services and enterprise software in the fitness, sports and leisure industry, from Fiserv Inc. Don has also acted as regulatory counsel to Western Union in its acquisition of Vigo Remittance, Custom House and Travelex Global Business Payments, and to Western Union and Green Dot in their initial public offerings. In recognition of Don’s role as banking and payments law regulatory counsel for First Data Corp. in connection with its acquisition by an investor group for $29 billion, International Financial Law Review awarded SRZ its prestigious Americas Private Equity Deal of the Year Award.

Don is a frequent author and public speaker on topics of interest to the payments industry. He spoke at the Money Transmitter Regulators Association 2017 Annual Conference & Examiners’ School on “Payment Processing – A Deep Dive” and SRZ 28th Annual Private Investment Funds Seminar (2019) on “Blockchain and Digital Assets.” At recent ACI forums, he addressed “The Future of Virtual and Crypto Currencies and the ICO Phenomenon,” “Prepaid Card Compliance 101,” “State Regulatory and Enforcement Efforts Including Latest Challenges Associated with Money Transmitter Licensing Enforcement” and “Evolving State Regulatory and Enforcement Framework Governing Crypto, Virtual and Digital Currencies.” His recent publications include co-authoring “FinCEN Issues Assessment Against Virtual Currency Exchange – the First Enforcement Action Against a Foreign-Located Money Services Business” in PaymentsJournal, “OCC Issues Draft Guidance and Requirements for Fintech Charter Applications” in Bloomberg BNA – Banking Report and “Final Rules Relating to Money Services Business (MSB) Definitions” in the Journal of Investment Compliance. Don has been recognized by Chambers, The Legal 500 US, IFLR1000 and New York Super Lawyers as a leading attorney in banking, mergers and acquisitions and consumer law. He is ranked in the Chambers FinTech guide in the category of Payments & Lending.

St. John’s University School of Law, JD, cum laude (Notes and Comments Editor, St. John’s Law Review); State University of New York at Stony Brook, BA.