Overview
Adam J. Barazani advises fintech companies and private equity firms in complex transactions, regulatory compliance, and enforcement matters across the payments industry. He has advised on matters involving e-commerce platforms, cross-border and domestic money transmitters, B2B and commercial payments providers, rewards and prepaid card programs, payroll solutions, digital wallets, cryptocurrency exchanges, and emerging payments companies.
Adam guides clients on state-by-state licensing and regulatory frameworks, product development and structuring, and ongoing compliance obligations. In that capacity, he advises on money transmission licensure, multistate reporting, financial regulatory requirements, commercial lending and merchant cash advance regulation, and the rollout of new payments and lending products.
He has significant experience with acquisitions, investments, and internal restructurings involving payments companies, including matters requiring complex and creative structuring to address state change-in-control filing requirements and investor ownership thresholds. In this role, Adam conducts regulatory diligence and helps lead change-in-control processes on a nationwide basis in connection with high-value M&A and strategic investments in the fintech and payments sectors.
Results
- Represented TPG, a leading global alternative asset manager, in its $2.2 billion acquisition of AvidXchange, alongside Corpay.
- Represented Acrisure, a financial technology and insurance company, in its $1.1 billion acquisition of Global Payments’ payroll business.
- Represented 365 Retail Markets, a global leader in self-service retail technology, on a definitive agreement to acquire Cantaloupe, Inc.
- Represented Corpay, a global corporate payments company, and GPS Capital Markets, a B2B cross-border solutions provider, in connection with Corpay’s acquisition of GPS Capital Markets.
- Represented Advent International, a global private equity firm, in its take-private acquisition of Nuvei, a Montreal-based fintech payment processing company.
- Represented Tango Card, a digital B2B rewards and incentives provider, in its sale to Blackhawk Network.
- Represented GCP Capital and Flexpoint Ford, both private equity firms, in their acquisition of PNC Global Transfers, a provider of downstream payment processing services to money transmitters, from PNC Bank.
- Represented GCP Partners and Flexpoint Ford in their acquisition of TransNetwork Corporation, a B2B electronic domestic and cross-border processing payment platform.
- Represented Priority Technology Holdings, a leading payments technology company, in its acquisition of Finxera, a fintech company that launched one of the first Banking as a Service platforms.
- Represented Thoma Bravo affiliated funds in their acquisition of RealPage, a provider of technology platform used by owners and managers of real property.
- Represented Thoma Bravo affiliated funds in their strategic growth investment in Greenphire, a global leader in financial lifecycle management software for clinical trials.
- Represented WorldRemit in its acquisition of Sendwave, an Africa-focused, app-based remittance firm.
- Represented Centerbridge Partners affiliated funds in their majority investment in Syncapay, and the combination of daVinci Payments with North Lane Technologies, formerly Wirecard North America.
- Represented First Data Corporation and KKR in connection with Fiserv’s acquisition of First Data.
- Represented Noventis, a licensed money transmitter and provider of payment solutions, in its acquisition by WEX, a provider of payment processing and information services.
- Represented Small World Financial Services Group, an international omnichannel payment service provider, and Equistone Partners, a private equity fund, in connection with Equistone’s controlling investment in Small World and its U.S.-licensed money transmitter, Choice Money Transfer.
- Represented Securus Technologies and Platinum Equity affiliated funds in connection with Platinum Equity’s acquisition of Securus Technologies and its U.S.-licensed money transmitter, JPay.
- Represented Fleetcor Technologies, a global provider of commercial payment solutions, and Cambridge Global Payments, a B2B international payments provider, in connection with Fleetcor’s acquisition of Cambridge.
Credentials
Education
St. John’s University School of Law, JD, cum laude, Senior Articles Editor, St. John’s Law Review
Emory University, BA
Admissions
New York
New Jersey
Prior Experience
Cullen and Dykman, 2014-2017
