Travis Nelson is an experienced attorney, providing comprehensive legal services to financial institutions, such as banks, credit card companies, mortgage lenders and servicers, money services businesses and fintech companies, and their directors and their officers. His practice focuses on corporate mergers and acquisitions, regulatory compliance encompassing consumer finance and non-consumer regulations, federal and state enforcement actions, internal investigations and defense against financial services class action litigation.
Travis dedicates a substantial portion of his practice to defending financial institutions in examinations, investigations and enforcement actions initiated by federal and state governmental agencies, such as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Federal Reserve Board, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC), U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and state regulators.
Additionally, he provides strategic counsel to financial institutions and other businesses on compliance with anti-money laundering and trade sanctions (BSA/AML/OFAC) and cannabis and hemp banking and commerce.
Earlier in his career, Travis served in the Enforcement Division of the OCC, where he conducted extensive investigations and prosecuted enforcement actions against financial institutions and their insiders for violations of federal banking laws.
In addition to his law practice, Travis serves as adjunct faculty at Villanova University Law School and Temple University Law School, where he teaches a course on regulation of financial institutions. Previously, he served as co-editor of the ABA's Banking Law Committee Journal, was formerly the chair of the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Banking Law Section, is currently the chair of the Philadelphia Bar Association’s Banking & Financial Services Committee, and is editor of the quarterly magazine of the Bucks County (PA) Bar Association.
