Alston & Bird LLP

Alston & Bird LLP is active in blockchain regulatory work, including prediction markets, and regularly advises clients on emerging payment models, data privacy, and consumer protection across the UK, EU, and US. Clients include crypto-asset service providers, cloud-based web developers, payments and e-commerce start-ups, and banking disruptor firms. The team is co-led by the ‘client-focused and proactive’ Jonathan Garforth, who advises on the full spectrum of fintech regulation, and Richard Willis, who brings over two decades of experience advising payments clients across global markets. Garforth continues to advise on credit, payments, and digital assets, including regulatory structuring for high-profile fintech-bank partnerships. Counsel Gupinder Assi advises on payments and crypto regulation, drawing on prior in-house experience at First Data.