Adam Atlas Attorneys at Law

Founded on 03-03-03, Adam Atlas Attorney at Law is a boutique commercial law firm dedicated to top-tier personal service to clients. The firm advises principally on matters of electronic payments and merchant transaction acquiring law. Payments businesses are advised by the firm from inception through business modeling, legal framing, compliance review, financing, acquisitions, dispute settlement and exit strategies. All payments models can draw on the wide experience of the firm with credit card acquiring, MSB licensing, mobile payment application licensing, virtual currency, digital currency, Bitcoin, ATM placement, ACH, EFT, NFC, RFID, peer-to-peer lending, crowdfuding, merchant cash advance and virtual world law. Traditional domestic as well as high risk and foreign models have all drawn on the resources of the firm. Beyond payments, Atlas assists in matters of artificial intelligence law and big data law. Most of the clients of the firm are electronic transaction businesses located in the United States, including payment processors, banks and independent sales organizations. The firm advises on approximately one hundred million dollars of annual payments business residuals per year. Atlas powers PaymentsBusinessIdeas.com, a Money ServicesBusiness Blogand the Spanish-language MSB blogCentros Cambiarios y Transmisores de Dinero. We are proud to also be known as Fintech.law. As a way of automating fintech research for lawyers, banks and regulators, Atlas founded MSBStatus.com, which provides the 50 state MSB status information for any entity in 30 seconds. The firm is led by Adam N. Atlas, Esq., B.A. Hon., B.C.L., LL. B., holds a Bachelor of Civil Law, Bachelor of Common Law and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, with Honors, all from McGill University, which included a year on exchange at the National University of Singapore. Atlas has been a member of the Bar of the State of New York and Bar of the Province of Quebec and since 1998. His professional memberships include, the American Bar Association, and the New York State Bar Association. Before establishing the firm, Atlas practiced corporate law at Stikeman Elliott, an international business law firm. Four professionals are engaged in the work of the firm; they bring to files experience having worked in-house at a fully-licensed US MSB, New York payments trial leadership and experience in leading commercial and compliance work across dozens of payment models from credit card acquiring through to virtual currency businesses.