Emily Goodman

Emily leads FS Vector’s Licensing practice, a core offering with our Advisory team.  She serves as a strategic advisor to licensing clients, with expertise in license and charter strategy, acquisition, maintenance, product development, compliance, operations, examinations, assessments / audits, marketing, regulatory relations, M&A and investments, changes of control, partnerships and agency structures, and fraud/risk.  The types of state licenses and charters that Emily supports include: state money transmission, B2B finance, lending, brokering, collections and digital assets.

Prior to joining FS Vector, Emily was Chief Legal Officer of HQ Digital, an early-stage digital multi-family office serving digital asset entrepreneurs and investors, as well as Lead Product & Regulatory Counsel at Brex.  Before that, Emily spent a decade at American Express, where she was Vice President & Senior Counsel supporting the Digital Labs business unit.  She started her career in the Financial Institutions & Payments group at Schulte, Roth & Zabel.

Emily earned a J.D. from Fordham University School of Law.