Lisa Lanham

Lisa M. Lanham is a shareholder at Greenberg Traurig, where she advises clients across the financial services industry on a broad range of federal and state regulatory, licensing, compliance, and transactional matters. Nationally recognized by Legal 500 for Financial Services Regulatory and Fintech, Lanham is known for helping clients navigate complex regulatory frameworks with practical, business-focused guidance that supports growth, innovation, and market expansion. Her practice spans both primary and secondary markets, enabling her to counsel clients on licensing, compliance, and capital markets transactions across a variety of sectors. She represents a wide range of clients—including mortgage lenders and servicers, fintech and marketplace lenders, auto finance companies, hedge funds, private equity firms, and payment companies—on regulatory structuring, examinations, enforcement matters, and strategic transactions. Her areas of focus include consumer and commercial finance regulation, money transmission, structured finance, and mergers and acquisitions involving regulated institutions. She also advises on emerging products such as point-of-sale financing, buy now, pay later programs, and co-branded credit offerings. With deep experience in multi-state licensing and the Nationwide Multistate Licensing System (NMLS), she helps clients streamline compliance and scale efficiently. She is widely regarded for her ability to translate regulatory complexity into clear, actionable strategies that align with business objectives.