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Ross Handler provides legal guidance to fintech, nonbank, and financial services institutions, ensuring compliance with federal and state finance laws. He advises clients on laws related to money transmission, consumer and commercial lending, and payments constructs.
Ross brings extensive experience in drafting, negotiating, and executing corporate transactional agreements in consumer and commercial payments matters. This includes incentive deals between merchants and card networks, bank partnership agreements, co-branded credit card agreements, and payment processing agreements for global retailers. He also provides regulatory counsel for payments constructs such as gift cards, payroll, marketplace solutions, and payment processing.
Additionally, Ross served as seconded counsel to a global payment facilitator in its Payments Risk Legal and Money Movement Services and Payouts groups, where he interacted with platform users to support new customer-facing payments products and services. Beyond his professional practice, Ross is actively engaged in pro bono work, representing clients in various legal matters, including landlord-tenant disputes, parole hearings, and asylum claims.
Professional Recognition
- Recognized by Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch for Privacy and Data Security Law, 2024
Professional Leadership
- Conference on Consumer Finance Law, Member, 2023-present
- American Bar Association
- Consumer Financial Services Subcommittee, Young Lawyer Liaison to the Diversity, Equity, and
Inclusion Committee - Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice
- Section of Business Law Practice
- Consumer Financial Services Subcommittee, Young Lawyer Liaison to the Diversity, Equity, and
- The National LGBTQ Bar Association
- Legal Counsel for the Elderly, Young Lawyer’s Alliance, Chair, 2019-present
Community Involvement
- Muhlenberg College Board of Trustees, Weiss Fellow, 2022-present
- Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, Mission Committee Chair, National Capital Regional Affiliate, 2021-present
- D.C. Bar Small Business Pro Bono Clinic, Pro Bono Volunteer Lawyer, 2021-present
- Muhlenberg College Alumni Board, Co-Chair of Career Services Committee, 2019-present
- Legal Counsel for the Elderly, Pro Bono Volunteer Lawyer, 2019-present
- Whitman-Walker Health Legal Services, Washington, D.C., Pro Bono Volunteer Attorney, 2018-present
Related Employment
- Cooley LLP, Washington, D.C., Associate, 2021-2022
- Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP, Washington, D.C., Associate, 2019-2020
- Buckley LLP, Washington, D.C., Law Clerk and Attorney, 2016-2019
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, Washington, D.C., Summer Judicial Clerk to the Hon. Margaret Ryan, 2015
