Hunton Andrews Kurth Grows Banking and Fintech Practices with Addition of Erin Fonté as Co-Head of Financial Institutions Corporate and Regulatory Team

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP is pleased to announce the continued growth of its banking and financial technology practices with the addition of Erin F. Fonté as partner and co-head of the firm’s financial institutions corporate and regulatory practice. Fonté is based in the firm’s Austin office.

Fonté has extensive experience advising financial institutions as well as non-bank fintech companies on existing and emerging regulations related to innovative financial services products and services. She also has advised financial industry and retail clients on a range of matters related to financial technology, payments systems, digital commerce, banking and financial services, and privacy and data protection laws. She most recently was a partner and executive board member at Dykema Gossett PLLC, leading its financial institutions regulatory and compliance industry team and its fintech, payments and digital commerce industry team. Fonté also served as a co-head of Dykema’s privacy and data security group.

“Erin has a national practice and reputation in banking technology, operations and payments, as well as in fintech. She is known for her cutting-edge work focused on the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, blockchain and cryptocurrency,” said Peter G. Weinstock, co-head of Hunton Andrews Kurth’s financial institutions corporate and regulatory practice. “Erin will play a key role in growing these practices and in guiding our clients through the industry’s constantly evolving legal and regulatory frameworks and tackling issues from product/mobile app design to third party vendor partnerships.”

A graduate of the University of Texas and Stanford Law School, Fonté also has been involved in the creation of new payment networks and has advised clients on products, services and network operating rules related to emerging and mobile payment systems. She served on the Federal Reserve Board’s Faster Payments Main Taskforce from 2015 to its conclusion in July 2017 and is also a former president of the Texas Association of Bank Counsel.

Hunton Andrews Kurth’s financial institutions corporate and regulatory practice focuses on bank regulatory and corporate matters for banks and financial services firms. Lawyers within the practice represent banks, thrifts, foreign banks, their branches and agencies and other financial institutions, as well as bank and thrift holding companies, technology and financial services firms and their officers, directors and owners. The practice includes substantial regulatory representation at state and federal levels.