Robert W. Wenner
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP
Bobby Wenner, Esq., counsels financial services and technology firms on financial services regulatory and corporate matters. He focuses on the representation of financial technology companies working with blockchain, tokenization, digital assets, and cryptocurrencies, including broker-dealers, alternative trading systems (ATS), digital asset and currency trading platforms, digital asset issuers and custodians, securities exchanges, and derivatives trading platforms including swap execution facilities. Bobby represents these clients before Congress, the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC), the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and state financial services regulators. He also represents banks, money services businesses, and payment processors before the federal banking regulators, including the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), and state banking regulators. Before joining Nelson Mullins, Bobby served as the Chief Legal Officer of a FINRA-member broker-dealer and ATS designed for trading digital asset securities, as well as the Associate General Counsel of the holding company, and the company's digital asset trading and issuance ecosystem. In these roles, Bobby led various state and federal financial services licensure applications, interfaced with regulators, provided counsel on a wide range of securities, commodities, and derivatives product development efforts, and helped develop a regulatory compliant business model and launch strategy. Prior to his positions in-house, Bobby was an associate in the FinTech and Regulation practice of a national law firm.
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