Overview
Diane Holden is Of Counsel in the Corporate department of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm's Atlanta office. She is a member of the Global Fintech and Payments Group, providing transactional, regulatory, and general corporate guidance to banks and non-bank financial institutions, financial services and financial technology companies, payment networks, and investment firms.
Diane is experienced in advising clients on acquisitions, and investments and in negotiating commercial agreements between parties in the global payments space. She also regularly provides guidance on regulatory issues within the payments space with respect to electronic payments, virtual currencies, stored value, and money transmission.
Diane has expertise in state money transmission statutes, the federal Bank Secrecy Act, Regulation E, and other state and federal statutes related to the provision of payments. Her representative experience includes:
- Banc of California in its acquisition of Global Payroll Gateway’s payments platform and technology, as well as the company’s wholly-owned subsidiary Deepstack Technologies.
- GTCR in its $3.5 billion acquisition of AssetMark Financial Holdings.
- GTCR in its $260 million acquisition of Sage Payment Solutions, Inc. (SPS).
- GTCR in its acquisition of a majority stake in Worldpay.
- Integrum in its acquisition of MerchantE, a leading end-to-end payment platform, from Cielo, one of the world’s largest payments companies.
- Salesforce in its partnership with Stripe to integrate Stripe’s technology into its Commerce Cloud Payments solution.
- Samsung Pay on its launch, utilizing novel financial services contracts among various parties in the payments ecosystem.
Representations
- Banc of California in its acquisition of Global Payroll Gateway’s payments platform and technology, as well as the company’s wholly-owned subsidiary Deepstack Technologies.
- GTCR in its $3.5 billion acquisition of AssetMark Financial Holdings.
- GTCR in its $260 million acquisition of Sage Payment Solutions, Inc. (SPS).
- GTCR in its acquisition of a majority stake in Worldpay.
- Integrum in its acquisition of MerchantE, a leading end-to-end payment platform, from Cielo, one of the world’s largest payments companies.
- Salesforce in its partnership with Stripe to integrate Stripe’s technology into its Commerce Cloud Payments solution.
- Samsung Pay on its launch, utilizing novel financial services contracts among various parties in the payments ecosystem.
news
- Paul Hastings Advised GTCR in $2.7 Billion Acquisition of AssetMark - April 29th, 2024
- Paul Hastings Advised GTCR in $18.5 Billion Majority Stake Acquisition of Worldpay - July 7th, 2023
- Paul Hastings Advises Banc of California in Acquisition of Deepstack Technologies - September 16th, 2022
- GTCR to Acquire Sage Payment Solutions - June 2nd, 2017
insights
- U.S. Proposes a National Framework for the Regulation of Fintech - August 9th, 2018
- CFPB Payday Rule: A Ban or a Blueprint for the Future of Short-Term Consumer Lending? - October 19th, 2017
- Compliance Alert: CFPB Releases New Guidance Regarding Phone Pay Fees - August 11th, 2017
- OCC to Banking Entities—Give Us Input to Help Improve Implementation of the Volcker Rule - August 10th, 2017
- State Regulators Mount Counter-Offensive Seeking to Stop OCC’s Fintech Charter - May 3rd, 2017
- The OCC’s Proposed Fintech Charter: If It Walks Like a Bank and Quacks Like a Bank, It’s a Bank - December 13th, 2016
- Back to the Future—Trump Administration Seeks to Roll Back Financial Services Regulation - November 30th, 2016
- The CFPB’s Project Catalyst: Is It Worth the Risk? - November 4th, 2016
- Money Transmitters Face New Requirements under Proposed New York Cybersecurity Rule - October 6th, 2016
- Online Lenders Beware—CashCall Decision another Example of True Lender Risks - September 29th, 2016
- Addressing ECOA Risk in Marketplace Lending - August 25th, 2016
- Are You Ready to Comply with the CFPB’s Final Amended Mortgage Servicing Rules? - August 10th, 2016
- CFPB Proposes New Rule Targeting Small Dollar Loans, Relies on UDAAP Rulemaking Authority for First Time - June 14th, 2016
- FinCEN Guidance Highlights Continued Regulatory Focus on Anti-Money Laundering Risks Posed by MSB Agents - March 29th, 2016
- CFPB—2015 in Review and What is Ahead for 2016? - January 14th, 2016
- Has the CFPB Essentially Banned Marketing Services Agreements Under RESPA? - October 21st, 2015
- Banking on the Green Rush: Financial Institutions Face New Challenges in Serving the Legal Marijuana Industry - September 29th, 2015
- Cybersecurity as a Global Concern in Need of Global Solutions: Some Recent Financial Regulatory Developments - September 1st, 2015
- Elder Financial Abuse on the Rise: What Financial Institutions Can Do to Address Increasing Regulatory Scrutiny Designed to Protect At-Risk Customers - August 25th, 2015
- Is Your Business Ready to Comply with the Final Amended Department of Defense Military Lending Act Regulation? - August 5th, 2015