With decades of legal experience relating to banking, bank regulation, consumer finance, payments, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and housing finance, Dave advises and represents clients and serves as an expert consultant and witness regarding these subjects. His background includes CFPB, FTC and state examination and enforcement issues; money transmission; payments processing; consumer and housing finance; BSA/AML/CTF regulation; corporate governance; privacy law; and housing and bank regulation. He is experienced in trial and appellate litigation, rulemaking, internal investigations, capital regulation, supervisory agreements, and securities. Dave led the legal team that placed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into conservatorship on the same day—the two largest financial institutions ever to be taken over by the government. Thereafter, as Deputy General Counsel for Conservatorship Operations at the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), he and his staff oversaw the legal work of both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. In previous jobs, including a stint as Acting General Counsel at the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO), he ran some of the largest enforcement cases in the federal government and drafted complex capital regulations and transactional documents. He also served in executive positions in which he advised the heads of several different federal agencies, including the FHFA, OFHEO and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, on numerous legal matters. Dave also has extensive experience drafting legislation and working with Capitol Hill staff on issues related to banking and government sponsored enterprises (GSEs).Specialties: enforcement, examinations, negotiation, litigation, governance, financial institutions, banking, consumer finance, payments, money transmitters, housing finance, receiverships, conservatorships, mergers, regulations, administrative law, acquisitions, BSA/AML/CTF, administrative law, privacy, consumer finance.
Listed skills include Corporate Governance, Litigation, Mergers And Acquisitions, Administrative Law, and 43 others.