USA Trends and Developments
Trends and Developments Contributed by: David Sewell, Alison Hashmall and Nariné Atamian Freshfields Freshfields is a global law firm with a long- standing track record of successfully supporting the world’s leading national and multinational corporations, financial institutions and govern - ments on ground-breaking and business-criti - cal mandates. The firm’s 2,800-plus lawyers de - liver results worldwide through its own offices and alongside leading local firms. The firm’s commitment, local and multinational expertise, and business know-how mean its clients rely
on it when it matters most. Freshfields’ top-tier financial regulatory practice works seamlessly across major business and financial hubs in EMEA, the USA and APAC. Freshfields’ lawyers are known for their advisory and transactional work with the largest financial markets partici - pants on both the buy and sell side, including banks, asset managers, sovereign wealth funds, private wealth and boutique M&A, market infra - structure players and fintech firms.
Authors
David Sewell is a partner at Freshfields. He represents a diverse array of banks, non- bank financial institutions, and fintech providers with charter and licensing matters;
Alison Hashmall is a financial services regulatory partner at Freshfields, advising domestic and non-US banking organisations, financial sponsors, private equity funds,
compliance with state and federal banking money transmission, and consumer finance laws – as well as BSA/AML and sanctions requirements; M&A and capital markets transactions; and investigations and enforcement matters before state and federal authorities. Earlier in his career, David served as counsel and assistant vice president at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He has also worked in a senior role within the regulatory relations organisation of JP Morgan and as a congressional and White House aide.
and other financial institutions on a wide range of bank regulatory, policy and transactional matters. Alison frequently represents various trade organisations in the financial services industry on advocacy efforts related to regulatory and legislative proposals. She also assists clients in the policymaking process before federal regulators. An active thought leader on emerging issues in the bank regulatory space, Alison’s insights have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Politico, and the American Banker.
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