Overview
Max is an associate in the Finance & Bankruptcy Practice Group in the firm’s Orange County office.
Areas of Practice
Max is a member of the firm’s Consumer Finance and Blockchain & Fintech Teams. Max’s practice encompasses counseling banks, fintechs, and other non-bank institutions offering financial products or services on a variety of federal and state compliance matters.
Max has advised clients on matters such as bank-fintech partnership compliance, lender-placed insurance, credit card products, and UDAAP and true lender risk. Max also has experience advising companies to effectively respond to civil investigative demands issued by the CFPB and other consumer finance regulators.
Insights
Articles
Consumer Finance and Fintech Blog Posts
- "CFPB Penalizes VA Lender for Misrepresenting Cost of Cash-Out Refinance Loans," September 6, 2024
- "New Hampshire Updates Motor Vehicle Retail Installment Act: What Lenders Need to Know," August 23, 2024
- "CFPB Settles Action against Third-Party Service Provider Supporting Credit Repair Industry," August 9, 2024
- "Congressional Measure Aims to Undo Recent CFPB Buy Now Pay Later Guidance," August 9, 2024
- "FTC Settles Action Against Online Career-Training Company for Deceptive Advertising," August 2, 2024
- "CFPB Report Spotlights Hidden Fees in School Lunch Payments," July 26, 2024
- "CFPB Proposes Revamped RESPA Mortgage Servicing Rules," July 12, 2024
- "Oklahoma Bank Faces FDIC Consent Order," July 5, 2024
- "Payday Lending Rule Slated to Take Effect, 7 Years Later," June 21, 2024
- "Swipe Fee Showdown: Illinois Passes Novel Payments Law," June 21, 2024
- "CFPB Cracks Down on Mortgage Servicers, Alleging Harmful Practices Against Older Homeowners," June 21, 2024
- "CFPB Proposes Rule to Transform Credit Reporting Practices on Medical Debt," June 14, 2024
- "Florida Expands its 'De-Banking' Law," June 14, 2024
- "CFPB Circular Targets 'Deceptive' Fine Print," June 7, 2024
- "CFPB Takes Legal Action Against Student Loan Servicer for Chasing Debt on Discharged Student Loans," June 7, 2024
- "CFPB Director Targets Credit Reporting Fees," May 24, 2024
- "CFPB Report Targets Games and Virtual Worlds – What Blockchain Game and Metaverse Companies Need to Know," May 29, 2024
- "CFPB Settles Action Against Student Loan Servicer and Securitization Trusts," May 10, 2024
- "FTC Calls Out Bill Payment Company’s Use of Dark Pattern Practices," May 3, 2024
- "FTC Cracks Down on Payments Processor for Facilitating Fraud," May 3, 2024
- "CFPB Announces Update in Continued War on Mortgage Servicing Junk Fees," April 26, 2024
- "Kansas Introduces New Commercial Financing Disclosure Law," April 19, 2024
- "Lenders Sue to Block Colorado’s Interest Rate ‘Opt-Out’ Law," March 29, 2024
- "Third Circuit Ruling Gives CFPB Green Light to Enforce Against Student Loan Trusts," March 22, 2024
- "FTC Announces Major Expansion of Telemarketing Sales Rule," March 15, 2024
- "Crypto Platform Settles SEC and State Regulator Charges over Interest Bearing Feature on Customer Accounts," February 16, 2024
- "DOJ and North Carolina Attorney General Reach $13.5M Settlement in Discriminatory Lending Case," February 9, 2024
- "FTC Cracks Down on Data Aggregator, Bans Sale of Precise Consumer Location Data," February 2, 2024
Industries
Education
J.D., University of California, Irvine, 2023
B.A., Wabash College, 2017, magna cum laude
Admissions
- California