Mehul Madia
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLC
Mehul Madia, special counsel in the firm's Washington, D.C. office, provides deep consumer finance and fintech expertise to clients, leveraging more than 15 years’ of public and private sector experience.
Mehul counsels many of the nation’s banks and non-bank financial institutions, lenders, and fintech companies on sensitive regulatory, enforcement, and litigation matters. As a former senior attorney at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, he has extensive experience representing clients before federal and state government agencies.
Mehul has an active enforcement and regulatory practice having represented companies and executives before a host of government agencies including the CFPB, the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, Federal Reserve Board, and state attorneys general and state regulators such as New York Department of Financial Services. He has counseled clients on matters involving unfair, deceptive or abusive acts or practices, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, the Electronic Funds Transfer Act, the Card Act, the Truth in Lending Act, as well as various state consumer protection laws.
From 2020-2022, Mehul served as a senior legal advisor to the Associate Director in the CFPB’s Supervision, Enforcement & Fair Lending office. In that role, he advised the SEFL Associate Director as well as the CFPB Director on all enforcement and supervisory matters the Bureau undertook. He also advised on various legal and policy matters relating to student loan origination and servicing, mortgage servicing, auto finance, electronic and remittance transfers, debt collection, and short-term/small dollar lending.
