Michael Gordon is an accomplished consumer finance lawyer with more than 20 years of experience as a law firm partner, senior federal regulator, and fintech general counsel. Michael serves as co-chair of Bradley’s Fintech team, and his practice includes consumer finance and fintech, banking and bank partnerships, consumer and commercial credit, payments, regulatory strategy, risk management and corporate governance matters for a range of clients. Michael is a practical, business-focused lawyer with wide-ranging experience in private practice, government, and as a client. He has established a reputation for helping financial institutions and service providers anticipate and respond to a complex and ever-changing regulatory environment.
Michael also has extensive experience representing corporations, institutions, and individuals in congressional investigations, executive branch and commission inquiries, regulatory proceedings, and related litigation. Michael has held senior positions in two Committees of the U.S. House of Representatives. He led investigations and hearings as Chief Investigative Counsel of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, a committee with jurisdiction over health care, consumer protection, energy, food and drug safety, and communications. He also served as Senior Investigative Counsel on the Committee on Oversight and Reform, the principal oversight committee of the House, where he led investigations into the causes and effects of the financial crisis. Michael has also served as counselor to the General Counsel of the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
