Stripe Snags Half-Dozen Lawyers Amid New Fundraising Talks (1)

Stripe Inc., an online payments processor, has recruited at least a half-dozen lawyers since Labor Day as the company reportedly seeks a funding round that could see its valuation soar above $70 billion.

Among the hires are litigation counsel Tracy Talbot, most recently a commercial litigation partner at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner in Denver and San Francisco, and banking product counsel Lee Ann Anderson, who was a capital markets partner at Greenberg Traurig in New York and Washington.

The hires come as San Francisco-based Stripe, which was founded a decade ago and competes with payment service providers like Square Inc. ...