New York – 919 Third Avenue
A seasoned and versatile lawyer, Leel Sinai focuses his practice on banking, financial services regulation, and FinTech, with an emphasis on emerging areas such as cryptocurrency and payment system innovations. With a practice spanning domestic and international financial markets, Leel also has comprehensive experience in in-house legal roles and regulatory consulting.
Leel serves as a trusted advisor to premier financial institutions and FinTech enterprises, delivering nuanced insights across multiple regulatory domains. He advises clients on a wide spectrum of regulatory frameworks, including federal and state banking, trust company oversight, money transmission, lending compliance, and anti-money laundering (AML) protocols. He provides strategic guidance on licensing processes, product development, partnership strategies, and comprehensive compliance approaches.
In addition to assisting clients in designing and implementing robust regulatory compliance and risk management frameworks, Leel supports complex regulatory diligence for significant corporate acquisitions and offerings.
Leel also has experience conducting thorough internal investigations and spearheading remediation efforts in response to examination findings, helping clients take a proactive, risk-minimization approach to regulatory challenges.
- Provided regulatory advice on new products and services offered by banks, payments companies, and crypto exchanges*
- Conducted bank regulatory, money transmission, and AML diligence and provided regulatory advice on mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and capital markets transactions*
- Analyzed a foreign banking organization’s ability to engage in physically settled carbon credit derivatives transactions outside the United States under Regulation K*
- Advised on bank regulatory issues related to control regulations applicable to bank M&A*
- Analyzed bank regulatory requirements and prohibitions, such as those relating to inter-affiliate transactions, tying arrangements, and the Volcker Rule*
- New York City Bar Association, Banking Law Committee, member
- American Bar Association, Banking Law Committee, member
- American Jewish Committee, member
- Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University, JD
- Hofstra University, MBA
- Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, MA
- University at Buffalo, BA
- New York
- New Jersey
- English
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