Nishi Gupta is a Partner at McDermott Will & Schulte.  As a member of the industry's largest crypto-exclusive team who spend 100% of their time on crypto matters, Nishi provides regulatory advice to cryptocurrency and blockchain companies. He has more than a decade of experience leading legal and compliance teams at a digital bank, FinTech companies, financial services corporations, and software companies. Prior to joining McDermott, Nishi was the general counsel and chief compliance officer at a leading FinTech bank.

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Leveraging his significant regulatory, financial technology, and crypto industry experience, Nishi provides strategic counsel to companies and individuals on matters ranging from money transmission licensing, payment regulation, and financial crime compliance, to advising on token launches, stablecoin issuance, decentralized finance applications, and getting novel crypto products out into the market quickly and compliantly. In addition, Nishi has significant industry operations experience, including leading and managing transaction monitoring, rule development, financial crime investigations, sanctions compliance, and compliance data and technology development teams.  Nishi combines his regulatory knowledge with on the ground industry experience to provide actionable and practical counsel.