Joel
Sherwin

Joel Sherwin is a business lawyer with entrepreneurial, executive management and operations experience in early and growth-stage financial services companies. He is a strategic advisor to multiple companies in the Los Angeles start-up community, and concentrates his practice in company formation, start-up financing, negotiation, and general corporate matters that may arise in the life-cycle of a business.

 

Joel advises financial technology, payments, and e-commerce companies, along with merchant banks, prepaid program managers and payment processors on consumer privacy, BSA/AML/OFAC, KYC and other risk and compliance structures.

 

Practice Areas and Representative Industries:

• Corporate Strategy
• Business Opportunities/ Negotiations
• Strategic Partnerships
• Prepaid/ Money service business compliance
• Risk Management and Analysis
• Brand Focused Products and Services
• Financial Technology/ Services
• Sports and Entertainment
• Licensing and Endorsements
• Entity Selection, Structuring and Advisory
• Corporate Finance
• Private Equity and Venture Capital
• Joint Ventures and Partnerships
• Personal and Outside General Counsel

Experience:

• McDermott Will & Emery, Los Angeles
• COO & General Counsel of Kaiku Fiance, a Visa-branded prepaid program manager
• Worked internationally in Mexico, South America, Europe, and the Middle East
• President of US Operations, Neopay, a consultancy specializing in regulatory compliance for Money Service Businesses

Speaking/Publications:

• American Conference Institute 17th National Forum on Prepaid Card Compliance- Washington D.C. January 2017
• Are Bills of Attainder the New Currency? Challenging the Constitutionality of Sex Offender Regulations That Inflict Punishment Without the Safeguard of a Judicial Trial, 37 PEPP. L. REV. 4, (1301-45)(2010)

Outside Interests:

• Golf, exercise, travel and, after many failed attempts, finally learning to play the guitar