MoFo Boosts SF Financial Services Team With Ex-State Regulator

Avy Mallik joined Morrison Foerster as a partner in its financial services group in San Francisco, the firm announced Tuesday.

Mallik served as general counsel of the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, where he was the lead legal and policy adviser to the governor’s office, the DFPI commissioner, and senior leadership. He played an instrumental role in overseeing DFPI’s liquidation of a California-based bank primarily serving the technology and venture capital sectors and managed the resulting contagion risk affecting the banking sector, the firm said.

He joins from the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation.

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