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We practice at the intersection of media and technology, with transactional and litigation capabilities in many focus areas including social media, video games, augmented and virtual reality, digital media distribution, streaming platforms, user generated content, and the metaverse. 

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Spencer Klein is Chair of the firm's global Mergers & Acquisitions Group.Spencer focuses his practice on M+A transactions and related matters such as proxy contests and takeover defense counseling. He has advised on more than 200 successfully closed mergers, tender and exchange offers, stock and asset acquisitions, divestitures and joint ventures. He is also a veteran of numerous contested matters and regularly counsels corporate boards and committees in transactional and high-profile corporate governance matters.Spencer frequently advises leading U.S. and multinational companies across multiple industries. His engagements include multi-billion dollar deals in health care and life sciences, financial services, technology, consumer products, manufacturing, retail, energy, and entertainment, media and sports. In addition to prominent corporate clients and private equity funds, he has represented some of the world's leading bulge bracket and boutique investment banks.Spencer also co-chairs the firm’s Interactive and Digital Media group, an interdisciplinary team that operates at the convergence of technology with media and entertainment.Prior to joining Morrison & Foerster, Spencer was a partner at O’Melveny & Myers LLP, McDermott Will & Emery LLP and Shearman & Sterling LLP. Spencer received his B.A. from The Pennsylvania State University in 1986, and his J.D. from Hofstra University School of Law in 1989, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Hofstra Law RevieSpencer has been recognized regularly as one of the world's leading M+A lawyers by International Financial Law Review, Super Lawyers, Legal 500 United States, and The World's Leading Lawyers for Mergers and Acquisitions: U.S. Expert Guide (Legal Media Group). He has been named a "New York Super Lawyer" by Law & Politics in each of the last fifteen editions. Legal 500 US has referred to Spencer as "one of the best deal lawyers in the country."Spencer serves as a Special Professor of Law at Hofstra University School of Law, a member of the Alumni Board of Visitors of the Department of Political Science at The Pennsylvania State University, and the founding Chair of the Hofstra Law Review Alumni Advisory Board. In 2022, Spencer was an inaugural inductee into the Hofstra Law School Hall of Fame.

Spencer Klein

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Evan Minsberg advises fintech companies, banks, and other financial services providers on developing new products, services, and strategic partnerships. Evan provides practical regulatory counsel and transactional support for a wide variety of payments, credit, and other financial technology business models. Evan’s focus includes payment processors, money transmitters, bank-fintech partnership arrangements, marketplaces, and other online and app-based financial services providers.With over a decade of experience in the financial services space, Evan is readily familiar with numerous fintech models and provides strategic, practical, and digestible advice. Evan’s clients are looking for help navigating the complex federal and state financial regulatory requirements applicable to the products they bring to market and finding the most efficient compliance solutions for achieving their goals – whether on their own or in partnership with other regulated entities and service providers. His transactional clients want support negotiating the best arrangements possible for their budget, timeline, and priorities, while maintaining productive relationships with their contractual counterparties. Evan’s clients range from start-ups, to fintech market leaders, to multinational public companies.Prior to joining MoFo, Evan worked in the financial services teams of two other leading law firms.<h4>Representative Experience</h4>Payment Processing and Money Movement<ul><li>Advise clients, from unlicensed start-ups to leading fintech payments companies, on compliance with federal and state money transmission and money services business laws, including licensing requirements and exemptions, bank partner and authorized delegate arrangements, funds flows, and use of “FBO accounts” and other structures.</li><li>Negotiate merchant processing and sponsorship agreements for multiple merchant, payment facilitator, and marketplace clients and advice on compliance with Card Network rules.</li><li>Structure, draft, and negotiate ACH origination, third-party sender, and third-party service provider agreements for multiple bank and fintech clients and advise on compliance with NACHA rules.</li><li>Counsel digital assets platforms on application of federal and state money transmission laws to cryptocurrency transactions.</li></ul>Banking as a Services (BaaS)<ul><li>Structure, draft, and negotiate program management agreements for multiple sponsor bank clients for deposit account programs with fintech companies, including use of “FBO Account” structures.</li><li>Advise sponsor bank clients on compliance requirements and appropriate division of rights and responsibilities with fintech partners, including end-user relationships, AML issues, customer data sharing, and program agreements.</li><li>Counsel sponsor bank clients on wind-down procedures, including timing, customer notice, return of customer funds, and other relevant issues.</li></ul>Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML)<ul><li>Counsel multiple bank, money services business, and other financial services clients on compliance with statutory and contractual BSA/AML requirements for BaaS, payment processing, “FBO Account” arrangements, and other models and structures.</li><li>Assist clients in preparing BSA/AML policies and procedures, including for money services business, digital assets and cryptocurrency, and cannabis-banking models. </li></ul>Credit Products and Services<ul><li>Develop consumer and commercial financing programs, including Buy Now, Pay Later, retail installment sales, and revenue-based financing arrangements.</li><li>Advise on state licensing requirements and exemptions and usury laws for consumer and commercial lenders, brokers, lead generators and others.</li><li>Structure, draft, and negotiate agreements for various credit arrangements, including card issuing agreements, bank partner / platform models, and lead generation arrangements.</li></ul>

Evan Minsberg

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Aaron is the co-chair of the Interactive + Digital Media Group and former chair of the firm’s Technology Transactions Group. He advises clients on a wide range of complex transactions involving intellectual property and technology, including structuring and negotiating strategic licensing, development, collaboration, procurement, and distribution arrangements.Aaron’s practice focuses on advising both established and emerging companies in data- and technology-intensive sectors, with a particular emphasis on AI and interactive and digital media (including social platforms, AR/VR, gaming, and streaming). He also regularly works with clients in autonomous vehicles, Healthtech, Fintech, Adtech, and broader software and consumer technology markets. His work often sits at the intersection of product, data, IP, and commercial relationships, particularly in connection with AI-driven and platform-based business models and emerging technologies.He also maintains an active practice counseling companies on branding and marketing, trademark licensing, and content-related transactions, as well as the intellectual property aspects of mergers, acquisitions, asset spinoffs, and private equity investments.He has represented leading technology companies such as OpenAI, Meta, ElevenLabs, Visa, Autodesk, General Motors, Honda, and Rivian, among others.Aaron has been recognized by numerous publications for his work on market-defining technology transactions and is currently ranked by Chambers USA for “Technology Transactions.”Aaron also serves as co-editor of Socially Aware, the firm’s award-winning newsletter and blog devoted to the law and business of social platforms, and regularly publishes on various IP and technology-related topics. He is a sought-after speaker on new and emerging areas of law and is a frequent presenter and panelist at conferences and legal services programs.In addition to his active practice, Aaron regularly provides pro bono assistance to various nonprofit and charitable organizations such as Common Sense Media and the Starlight Children’s Foundation. He is a member of the board of directors of California Lawyers for the Arts.While in law school at the University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, Aaron served as executive editor of the California Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif. Following law school, Aaron served as a law clerk to the Honorable William H. Orrick and the Honorable Martin J. Jenkins, both United States District Judges for the Northern District of California.

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