Able to draw upon support from the firm’s banking & finance department on capital market matters, Mayer Brown offers strong expertise in regulatory financial service issues and the full spectrum of capital transactions. In Washington DC, David Beam counts money service businesses, investment banks, and consumer lenders among his clients and is principally focused on payment systems and credit products. Steve Kaplan leads the firm’s financial services regulatory and enforcement team, while Rohith George splits his time between Palo Alto and San Francisco and is proficient in the negotiation and execution of SaaS and other hosted service agreements. Working out of Chicago, Joe Pennell’s broad caseload encompasses digital and outsourced services transactions as well as the outsourcing of finance and accounting services. Brad Peterson oversees the firm’s global technology transactions practice and is well-versed in PaaS and SaaS, while Julian Dibbell is another key member of the team.

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Key clients

  • Square, Inc.
  • American Express Company
  • Goldman, Sachs & Co
  • PayPal, Inc
  • Afterpay
  • LendingClub
  • Bitnomial Exchange, LLC
  • Riskified
  • Stripe

Lawyers

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Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

David Beam, Joe Castelluccio, Nina Flax, Julie Gillespie, Reg Goeke, Steve Kaplan, Brad Peterson

Other key lawyers

Rohith George, Joe Pennell, Julian Dibbell