Fintech Startup Leap Theory Adds Manatt Consumer Finance Chair

Leap Theory LLC, a startup that provides analytics technology to financial services clients, has recruited a new law department leader in Richard Gottlieb.

Gottlieb most recently chaired the national consumer financial services practice at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips. He worked out of the law firm’s offices in Chicago and Los Angeles, which Gottlieb left this month to join the management team at Leap Theory in its Silicon Beach headquarters in Santa Monica, Calif. His first day was Jan. 3.

Companies operating in the non-traditional financial services space have been busy in recent months recruiting in-house legal leaders. Fintech startups ...