Mehul Madia

Special Counsel at Sheppard Mullin

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Mehul counsels many of the nation’s banks and non-bank financial institutions, lenders, including home equity providers, and fintech companies on sensitive regulatory, enforcement, and litigation matters. As a former senior attorney at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), 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, Department of Housing and Urban Development,

the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the Federal Trade Commission, the Federal Reserve Board, state attorneys general as well as state regulators such as New York Department of Financial Services and the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, among others. He has counseled clients on a host of federal consumer financial laws including UDAAPs, FCRA, ECOA, EFTA, and TILA, 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 (SEFL). 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 lender.