Fintech and financial services | Wilson Sonsini
Much of our clients’ success comes from applying our expertise to a wide range of services: initial structuring and financing, regulatory strategies, IP protection, commercial partnerships and others. Our dedicated lawyers understand a company’s full range of needs, enabling them to deliver impactful, innovative, compliant and customized solutions.
In other words, Wilson Sonsini offers the comprehensive and integrated corporate, regulatory, intellectual property and litigation services that fintech companies need.
Our fintech services include the following, among many others:
Regulatory
- Structuring and consulting of fintech companies for compliance with federal and state securities, commodities, payments and other financial services laws in a manner designed to streamline compliance as much as possible – particularly where there is legal or regulatory uncertainty
- Seeking no-action letters, exemption orders and other regulatory relief related to fintech legal issues that raise new questions
- Pursue informal discussions with regulators regarding new technologies and business models to address regulatory uncertainty
- Form and register regulated entities, including investment advisers, broker-dealers, funding portals, money services businesses and money transmitters; develop compliance programs; and provide ongoing compliance advice for these entities
- Prepare legal statements and notes regarding the status of certain assets as securities; the status of a business as a broker-dealer, investment adviser, investment company, money services business or money transmitter; and/or compliance of a client’s business activities with federal and state securities, commodities and/or payment laws
Company
- Initial structuring and financingincluding SAFEs, SAFTs, convertible notes and other arrangements
- Formation of private funds to facilitate the delivery of fintech products and services, including venture capital and private equity funds, and develop necessary disclosure and operating documents
- IPO Advisory Services and negotiation of the full package of capital market offerings, with experience in the US, Hong Kong and Chinese markets
- Mergers and acquisitions, with decades of experience in participating in landmark agreements
- Tax analysis and mitigation strategies for corporate structures
- Guidance for foreign companies entering US marketsincluding launch, fundraising, partnership, M&A and IP services
Intellectual property
- Patents and innovation aid, including management of patent portfolios, patent applications, licensing, due diligence, litigation and interference and re-examination procedures
- Guidance for technology transactionsincluding strategic alliances, partnerships, joint ventures, asset sales, collaborations and co-development arrangements, dealer agreements, manufacturing agreements and global outsourcing transactions, among others
Procedure, litigation
- Comprehensive litigation services, including trade secret, commercial, consumer, corporate, patent, securities and trademark litigation, among other specialties
These are just a few of our frequently used legal services. Given our extensive experience in related practices, such as intellectual property, cyber security and financial regulation, our firm also has significant resources to represent a fintech company facing business disputes in critical areas such as antitrust, privacy and securities litigation.
