Margaret E. Tahyar

Biography

Meg Tahyar is head of Davis Polk’s Financial Institutions practice and a member of the firm’s Fintech team.  In this role, she provides strategic bank and financial regulatory advice to clients including many of the largest U.S. and non-U.S. financial institutions, regional banks, fintechs, cryptocurrency exchanges, and other digital assets companies.  In 2023, she led the teams representing the Signature and Silicon Valley bridge banks and advised J.P. Morgan on its acquisition of First Republic.  Tahyar also advises on corporate governance, consent order remediation, bank chartering, payment systems, fintech partnerships, bank powers and activities, cryptocurrencies, digital assets, securities disclosure, capital and liquidity, and the Federal Reserve’s liquidity programs.

Tahyar is a member of the FDIC’s Systemic Resolution Advisory Committee.  Additionally, she co-authored the leading textbook Financial Regulation: Law and Policy, as well as FinTech Law: The Case Studies.

Tahyar received her J.D. from Columbia Law School and her A.B. from the University of Michigan.