BuckleySandler Adds Depth to FinTech Capabilities With Addition of Jeffrey S. Hydrick to Corporate Transactional Practice

WASHINGTON, DC--(Marketwired - Aug 5, 2015) - BuckleySandler LLP, a leading financial services and litigation & enforcement law firm, announced today that Jeffrey S. Hydrick has joined the firm's Corporate Transactions practice as Counsel in its Washington, DC, office, effective August 3, 2015. An experienced practitioner and noted expert on mobile payments and bank-related outsourcing transactions, Hydrick will further deepen the firm's burgeoning financial technology transactional and regulatory practice.

"Jeff will be a great addition to our team of experienced FinTech attorneys," said Firm Chairman and Executive Partner, Andrew L. Sandler. "Our FinTech practice is growing rapidly as we are increasingly called upon to assist both established and emerging businesses in the FinTech sector to complete transactions that allow them to better deliver more complex and innovative financial products and services in a challenging regulatory environment. We are very fortunate to add Jeff as a key member of our FinTech transactional team."

Hydrick has over 15 years of experience working with companies on M&A deals, strategic alliances, mortgage and student lending, outsourcing agreements and other corporate structures and program arrangements. His transactional practice covers all facets of the payments business, including the development and implementation of consumer payment products and services for banks and non-banks; the issuance and distribution of credit, debit and prepaid products; the structuring of payment processing arrangements; bank outsourcing payment product-related activities; and the negotiation of financial and participation arrangements with payment networks.

Prior to joining BuckleySandler, Hydrick was Counsel at AmLaw 100 firm. He received his J.D. from Harvard Law School (1996) and B.B.A (magna cum laude) from University of Miami (1993).

With more than 160 lawyers in Washington, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and London, BuckleySandler provides best-in-class legal counsel to meet the challenges of its financial services industry and other corporate and individual clients across the full range of government enforcement actions, complex and class action litigation and transactional, regulatory and public policy issues. The Firm represents many of the nation's leading financial services institutions. BuckleySandler Online: www.buckleysandler.com; Twitter: https://twitter.com/BuckleySandler; InfoBytes Blog: http://www.infobytesblog.com.

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