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Daniel Meade is a partner in Cadwalader’s bank regulatory practice in Washington, DC. He has substantial experience in sophisticated transactional bank regulatory issues, such as bank M&A, the Volcker Rule, bank powers, affiliate transactions, Basel III capital including credit risk transfer transactions (CRTs), anti-tying, AML, sanctions, and Bank Holding Company Act, Community Reinvestment Act, Federal Deposit Insurance Act, and National Bank Act issues.
Dan has over 25 years of experience in prudential bank regulatory matters. Dan began his career on the Legal Staff of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, with responsibility for a variety of bank supervisory matters, including prudential regulation and bank M&A. His government service also includes work as Senior Counsel to the House Financial Services Committee, with responsibility for drafting substantial portions of the banking law provisions of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act. Dan has in-house experience as Senior Vice President and Managing Counsel at Wells Fargo, where he led a team providing advice to Wells Fargo’s Regulatory Relations and Government Relations and Public Policy functions. Earlier in his time at Wells Fargo, he worked as part of the general bank regulatory team, providing advice regarding banking statutes, regulations and policies issued by bank regulatory agencies that pertain to U.S. corporate-level bank and bank holding company regulatory laws and associated regulations, such as permissible activities, capital and liquidity rules, bank anti-tying rules, transactions with affiliates, branching and other office establishment issues, federal preemption, and federal antitrust laws. Dan has also worked on transactional bank regulatory issues at two other global law firms.
Dan is currently a member of the Board of Advisors of the UNC School of Law Center for Banking and Finance, and the Executive Council of the Federal Bar Association’s Banking Law Committee. Previously, he has served as the Chair of the American Bankers Association’s Regulatory Strategy Group, and as the Vice Chair of the In-House subcommittee of the American Bar Association’s Banking Law Committee. Dan has been recognized by a number of industry awards and publications. Chambers Global and Chambers USA recognize him as a top lawyer for financial services regulation, with clients noting that he “is very practical. He is also super technically competent in this complicated area.” Dan is also recognized for his work by The Legal 500 and IFLR1000 in financial services regulation.
He earned his J.D. from the Columbus School of Law at The Catholic University of America and an LL.M. from the Boston University School of Law. He received his B.A., cum laude, from Providence College.
