Founded on 03-03-03, Adam Atlas Attorneys at Law is a boutique fintech and crypto law firm dedicated to top-tier personal service to clients.
The firm advises principally on matters of fintech, payments, crypto, blockchain, BAAS, DeFi, AI, law for the metaverse and merchant transaction acquiring law. Payments businesses are advised by the firm from inception through business modeling, legal framing, compliance review, financing, acquisitions, dispute settlement and exit strategies. All payments models can draw on the wide experience of the firm with credit card acquiring, MSB licensing, neobank law, OCC Special Purpose National Bank Charter for Fintech review, mobile payment application licensing, virtual currency, digital currency, Bitcoin, ev-payments, electric vehicle payment solutions, ATM placement, ACH, EFT, peer-to-peer lending, crowdfunding, merchant cash advance and virtual world law. Traditional domestic as well as high risk and foreign models have all drawn on the resources of the firm. Our firm has evolved from classic payments to crypto and now into artificial intelligence law, IOT, drive by wire law and legal framing of self-driving autonomous vehicles.
Atlas has advised on crypto currency matters, including Bitcoin, since 2012.
Most of the clients of the firm are fintech businesses located in the United States, including payment processors, banks and independent sales organizations. Taking an open-source approach to the law of payments, Atlas powers:
fintech.law ® a free resource with in-depth payments-related information
paymentsplaza.com – answers your MSB / payment processor questions quickly
paymentsbusinessideas.com – listing hundreds of them
ICO DeFi Legal Hit and Miss List – Always fresh list of ICO token issuance and DeFi legal blunders.
AI Law Survey – resource for learning about artificial intelligence law and metaverse law like that which might apply to Horizon Worlds.
The firm uses AI to increase the efficiency and quality of work product.
The firm is led by Adam N. Atlas, Esq., B.A. Hon., B.C.L., LL. B., holds a Bachelor of Civil Law, Bachelor of Common Law and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, with Honors, all from McGill University, which included a year on exchange at the National University of Singapore. Atlas has been a member of the Bar of the State of New York and Bar of the Province of Quebec and since 1998. His professional memberships include, the American Bar Association, and the New York State Bar Association. Before establishing the firm, Atlas practiced corporate law at Stikeman Elliott, an international business law firm.
Four professionals are engaged in the work of the firm; they bring to files experience having worked in-house at a fully-licensed US MSB, New York payments trial leadership and experience in leading commercial and compliance work across dozens of payment models from credit card acquiring Through to virtual currency businesses.
Adam Atlas provides updates on U.S. MSB laws to the U.S. Money Services Business Association.
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[SCAM ALERT: Our firm will never solicit you about lost Bitcoin or any other crypto scheme. If you are contacted by someone holding out as a representative of our firm offering you Bitcoin do not engage with them and report them to law enforcement.]