Orrick and Silicon Valley Bank Reception at Money20/20
| October.26.2025 | 6pm - 9pm (Pacific Daylight Time)
Las Vegas, NVJoin Orrick and Silicon Valley Bank for delicious bites and drinks as we kick off Money20/20. We look forward to seeing new and familiar faces from the industry for an evening filled with vibrant conversation, collaborative opportunities and engaging insights on the landscape of fintech.
For more information or to RSVP, please contact your Orrick relationship partner or email us.
Practice:
- Corporate Governance
- Consumer Finance Regulatory
- Financial Services Investigations & Enforcement
- Financial & Fintech Advisory
- Strategic Advisory & Government Enforcement (SAGE)
- Fintech
- Government Investigations and Enforcement Actions
- Higher Education and Student Loan Financing
- Internal Investigations
- State Legislative & Regulatory
- State Attorneys General Investigations & Enforcement
Jedd Bellman Partner
Washington, D.C.
Jedd's solutions-based methodology allows clients to gather the appropriate intelligence and legal analysis they need so that they can make informed, risk-based decisions as they navigate the ever-changing state licensing and regulatory ecosystem. His collaborative and strategic approach is designed to maximize outcomes whether evaluating the merits of a transaction or responding to a multi-state enforcement action.
Jedd was the Assistant Commissioner for Non-Depository Supervision in the Office of the Maryland Commissioner of Financial Regulation, where he coordinated the licensing and supervision of approximately 23,000 individuals and business entities covering the mortgage, student loan, consumer finance, sales finance, debt services, credit reporting and money services industries. He also managed the office’s regulatory investigations and enforcement actions, including playing a leadership role in every significant multistate enforcement matter handled by state regulators during his tenure. Additionally, Jedd oversaw numerous successful legislative and regulatory initiatives.
Prior to that, Jedd served as Counsel and Senior Policy Advisor at the U.S. House of Representatives, where he developed policy and legislative agendas in the areas of housing and financial services, small business and minority business.
Jedd also served as Assistant Attorney General for Maryland, where he handled mortgage fraud and payday lending enforcement prosecutions, as well as mortgage compliance, payday lending and money services business investigations.
Following law school, he served as law clerk to Judge John K. Olson of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of Florida.
Behnam Dayanim Partner, Gaming & Gambling, Public Policy
Washington, D.C.
Practice:
- Gaming & Gambling
- Public Policy
- Cyber, Privacy & Data Innovation
- Fintech
- International Trade and Investment
- White Collar, Investigations, Securities Litigation & Compliance
- Strategic Advisory & Government Enforcement (SAGE)
Behnam Dayanim Partner
Washington, D.C.
Behn advises gaming and gambling providers, large media companies, Fintech, blockchain and more traditional financial services participants, and other technology and consumer-focused companies on issues at the intersection of gaming, financial services, data privacy and governance and related regulatory areas. Clients turn to him for his ability to advise on the whole frame of issues they may encounter, and he is equally comfortable guiding emerging companies in the early stages of their lifecycles and mature, multinational public companies. Behn is at home in the courtroom – representing clients in cutting-edge gaming litigations, before regulatory bodies – helping the crypto industry address growing sanctions and other financial services obligations, and in the boardroom – assisting in the formation of significant commercial partnerships, brand licenses, acquisitions and other combinations.
Practice:
- Financial & Fintech Advisory
- Strategic Advisory & Government Enforcement (SAGE)
- Fintech
Kathryn Ryan Partner
Washington, D.C.
She represents banks, first and second mortgage originators and servicers, reverse mortgage originators and servicers, fulfillment service providers, commercial lenders and servicers, bank holding companies, private equity firms, finance companies, debt collection companies, financial institutions and technology companies, payment processors, money transmitters and various related service providers.
Katy assists clients with matters before state regulatory agencies, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), federal banking agencies, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. She also provides strategic and tactical advice to help clients identify and secure the nationwide federal and state approvals necessary to achieve operational goals.
Prior to joining Orrick, Katy was a partner at Buckley LLP, where she was a member of the firm’s partner board.
Mike Heath Partner, Technology Companies Group
Los Angeles; Santa Monica
Mike Heath Partner
Los Angeles; Santa Monica
Mike has spent over 15 years helping founders and boards navigate the full company lifecycle—from formation and fundraising to scaling, acquisitions, and IPOs. He also serves as outside general counsel, advising on the legal and strategic challenges that come with growth.
Mike is all about efficiency, assembling legal teams that scale with his clients—from an early-stage founder sketching an idea on a napkin to executives leading multibillion-dollar companies through major transactions. His approach is rooted in trust and candid advice, particularly when navigating the complex and uncertain situations that inevitably arise in high-growth companies.
Leveraging Orrick’s sector-focused approach and legal innovation tools, Mike advises startups and high-growth companies on financing rounds, IPOs, and M&A deals. He also works closely with top venture capital and growth equity funds, guiding them through investments.
Prior to joining Orrick, Mike was a partner and co-founder of Gunderson Dettmer’s Los Angeles office.
Recognized as a “Next Generation Partner” by The Legal 500, Mike’s clients praise him as “incredibly knowledgeable, responsive, and always helpful,” with one calling him their “favorite external counsel.” Super Lawyers also named him a Rising Star in 2022 and 2023.
Mike earned both his law degree and bachelor’s degree at UC Berkeley, just a short walk from each other down Bancroft Avenue. A lifelong Cal Bears fan, he still holds out hope for a Rose Bowl appearance—ACC realignment and all.
Practice:
- Financial & Fintech Advisory
- Strategic Advisory & Government Enforcement (SAGE)
- Fintech
Jeffrey Hydrick Partner
Washington, D.C.
He has significant experience building strategic alliances between emerging and traditional payments companies, particularly in the mobile payments area, and he frequently advises clients on payment network issues and regulatory issues related to payments.
Prior to joining Orrick, Jeff was a partner at Buckley LLP. He also was counsel at Sidley Austin LLP, where he handled corporate and transactional matters.
Practice:
- White Collar, Investigations, Securities Litigation & Compliance
- Strategic Advisory & Government Enforcement (SAGE)
Bradley Marcus Partner
Washington, D.C.
Brad’s practice includes performing case investigations, developing successful case themes, strategies, and defenses and preparing and defending key witnesses. He has significant experience managing complex litigation, handling pre-trial motions, including overseeing successful summary judgment and motion to dismiss briefings, taking and defending critical fact and expert depositions and managing complex and cross-border e-discovery matters.
In the past few years, he has been involved in a number of cutting-edge cases in the FCPA arena spanning a variety of industries, including financial services, gaming, telecommunications and commodities trading.
Prior to joining Orrick, Brad was a partner at Buckley LLP. From 1999 to 2002, Brad covered Navy football and men’s college lacrosse as a reporter for the Washington Times.
Practice:
- Financial & Fintech Advisory
- Strategic Advisory & Government Enforcement (SAGE)
- Fintech
Ryan Pollard Partner
Washington, D.C.
Ryan focuses on representing borrowers and lenders in loan origination financing (in mortgage, auto, consumer and other loans, including warehouse and repurchase facilities) and servicing advance financing, acquisition financing (including mortgage servicing rights), syndicated financing, fund financing, working capital financing, litigation financing and asset based financing. He also assists clients with obtaining required applicable agency approvals in connection with these transactions.
Prior to joining Orrick, Ryan was a partner at Buckley LLP. He also was a corporate and securities associate in private practice, where he represented clients in a broad range of local, national and international corporate transactions.
Practice:
- Technology & Innovation
- Technology Transactions
- Intellectual Property
- Strategic Advisory & Government Enforcement (SAGE)
- Artificial Intelligence
Sarah Schaedler Partner
San Francisco
Sarah’s practice focuses on structuring and negotiating the intellectual property aspects of complex corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, business divestitures, and commercial transactions where software and technology are the principal assets as well as stand-alone strategic licensing matters. Sarah also advises clients on their Artificial Intelligence (AI) strategy and roadmap implementation with a focus on the procurement and negotiation of AI contracts.
Sarah routinely advises on carve-outs and business separation transactions and helps clients with structuring and implementing their intellectual property and technology separation and integration roadmaps.
Sarah has counseled several companies in their preparation for a divestiture and understands the issues a buyer is focused on in the context of intellectual property matters. She regularly helps companies implement remediation steps around their intellectual property assets to help them to a successful closing.
She has significant experience advising private equity funds on investments involving companies that are driven by technology and innovation, as well as intellectual property reliant consumer product companies and companies that are stepping into digitalization.
As a member of Orrick’s AI leadership group, Sarah is involved in Orrick’s AI practice strategy and thought leadership projects related to AI matters.
Practice:
- Financial & Fintech Advisory
- Strategic Advisory & Government Enforcement (SAGE)
- Fintech
Edward Somers Partner
Chicago
Ted is a trusted advisor to the financial services industry in supervisory and enforcement matters before state and federal regulators, including the CFPB, and the DOJ. He also has significant experience guiding clients through enhancements to internal policies, practices, and customer-facing documentation to align with regulator expectations.
Prior to joining Orrick, Ted was a partner at Buckley LLP.
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