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Carl Fornaris

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Co-Chair, Financial Services Practice, Co-Chair, FinTech, Banking, and Payments Group, and Co-Chair, Digital Assets

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With over 30 years of legal experience, Carl advises a broad range of financial services firms, including banks and their holding companies, trust companies, money services businesses, payments and FinTech companies, cryptocurrency and other digital assets firms, investment advisers, securities broker dealers, gaming firms, and other financial institutions and their institution-affiliated parties, including financial institution officers and directors, on all aspects of their business from licensing to capital-raising, new products, BSA/AML compliance, prudential regulation, business combinations, examination issues, and troubled institution matters.

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Some of the experience represented below may have been handled at a previous firm.

  • Represented Paysafe, a leading specialized payments platform, as M&A and financial regulatory counsel in its acquisition of SafetyPay.
  • Represented Cross River Bank as financial regulatory counsel in its acquisition of Betterfin, Inc.
  • Represented Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc., an investment banking firm, as underwriter’s counsel in the initial public offering of 1,975,000 shares of common stock of First Western Financial, Inc.

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