Margaret Tahyar
USA Guide 2024
Band 1 : Financial Services Regulation: Banking (Compliance)
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About
Provided by Margaret Tahyar
Practice Areas
Meg is the head of Davis Polk’s Financial Institutions practice and a member of the firm’s Fintech team. She provides strategic bank and financial regulatory advice to many of the largest U.S. and non-U.S. financial institutions, regional banks, fintechs, cryptocurrency exchanges and other digital assets companies.
She has been involved in several regional bank combinations. She also advises on corporate governance, consent order remediation, bank chartering, payment systems, fintech partnerships, bank powers and activities, cryptocurrencies, digital assets, securities disclosure, capital and liquidity and the Federal Reserve’s liquidity programs.
Meg is a member of the FDIC’s Systemic Resolution Advisory Committee. She co-authored Financial Regulation: Law and Policy, a leading textbook, and FinTech Law: The Case Studies.
Chambers Review
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Margaret Tahyar comes equipped with extensive legal acumen in financial regulatory matters. She regularly advises domestic and international banks, as well as FinTech companies, on cutting-edge compliance issues.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Margaret is very clear in explaining complicated things to those who are not banking lawyers."
"She is a brilliant lawyer and very much considered a thought leader in the bank regulatory space."
"Margaret is very clear in explaining complicated things to those who are not banking lawyers."
"She is a brilliant lawyer and very much considered a thought leader in the bank regulatory space."