Clark Hill

Joann is the leader of Clark Hill’s Financial Services Regulatory & Compliance group, and serves as a navigator to her clients seeking advice and guidance in the complex regulatory environment facing the financial services industry. She provides counsel, consultation, and litigation services to a wide array of financial institutions, law firms, credit reporting agencies, as well as venture capital firms looking to invest in the fin-tech space. A former member of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) Consumer Advisory Board, Joann has been able to provide her clients with useful strategies in order to prepare for new areas of regulatory scrutiny, including examinations.

 

Manuel H. (Manny) Newburger leads the Consumer Financial Services Law Practice Group at Barron & Newburger, P.C., a national law firm based in Austin, Texas. A well-known author on the FDCPA and similar laws, he has defended individual and class action lawsuits across the country and consulted to collection industry members throughout the U.S., India, the Philippines, and Canada. His practice group focuses on litigation, litigation management, and compliance. A Fellow of the American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers, Mr. Newburger has taught consumer law at the University of Texas School of Law since 1999.

Brit Suttell is a member of Barron & Newburger, P.C.’s Consumer Financial Services Group where they focus on defense litigation and regulatory compliance related to consumer protection statutes, specifically the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, Fair Credit Reporting Act, Telephone Consumer Protection Act, and related state consumer protection laws. Brit assists clients with the creation and maintenance of compliance management systems. In addition to defending consumer protection law claims, they also assist clients in various dealings with both state and federal regulators. Brit is a current member of the National Creditors Bar Association board of directors where they are Co-Chair of the Advocacy Pillar. They also serve on the Legal Advisory Board for the Consumer Relations Consortium, and is the current President of the Pennsylvania Creditors Bar. In their spare time, Brit enjoys unleashing hordes of goblins and uncontrollable ogres on her DnD group.

ALEX TEEL SERVES AS PRINCIPAL AT RFA, WHERE HE LOBBIES CAPITOL HILL, INDEPENDENT REGULATORY AGENCIES, AND THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH ON BEHALF OF CLIENTS.

He gained diverse policy and legislative experience from his service as the Designee for Chairman Emeritus Spencer Bachus (R-AL) to the House Committee on Financial Services and as a Professional Staff Member on the Committee. In his capacity as Designee, Alex managed the activities of Chairman Emeritus Bachus before the Financial Services Committee, including the development of legislation and participation in Committee proceedings. He provided counsel on a wide range of policy and regulatory proposals affecting all aspects of financial markets and institutions.

As a Professional Staff Member serving both the Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology Subcommittee and the International Monetary Policy and Trade Subcommittee, Alex worked on a range of issues affecting domestic and international financial institutions. His portfolio included the Federal Reserve, international financial institutions, money laundering, cybercrime, emerging payments, the Export-Import Bank and other trade agencies, the Defense Production Act, and coins and currency. He helped steward the passage of the Export-Import Bank Reauthorization of 2012, capital increases for several multilateral development banks, and staffed the Speaker’s Cyber Security Task Force on behalf of the Financial Services Committee.

In addition, Alex served as the Financial Services Legislative Assistant for Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R- SC), providing strategic counsel on financial markets, cyber security, intelligence, transportation, science and technology and economic policy.