Cadwalader welcomes the arrival of CFTC Regulatory Partner Peter Y. Malyshev and Fintech and Consumer Financial Services Partner Mercedes Kelley Tunstall, who join Cadwalader's Financial Services Group in Washington, D.C.
Peter focuses his practice on regulatory, compliance and transactional matters relating to commodities, derivatives and securities products regulated by the CFTC and the SEC. For over 25 years, Peter has assisted clients in the United States and overseas on numerous transactions involving over-the-counter and exchange-traded derivatives products in almost every asset class and market, such as: banking, financial institutions and insurance; agriculture, energy, mining and emissions; transportation and infrastructure; interest rates and credit default swaps; foreign exchange, digital assets and fintech; precious metals; and securities.
Mercedes regularly counsels banks, lenders, payments companies, digital asset companies and fintechs regarding federal banking regulators and compliance with laws and industry standards. She also defends clients against enforcement actions taken by these regulators, including the CFPB. As a former FTC lawyer and bank in-house counsel, she also draws on her experience to work with companies in a wide variety of industries, including the burgeoning Web3 and metaverse spaces, on advertising law, privacy and cybersecurity issues, as well as to represent clients in FTC and National Advertising Division defense.