During his career, Rob has advised on all aspects of consumer and non-consumer lending and bank and broker-dealer regulatory matters.  Rob previously served as the Head of Wealth Management Legal and Managing Director at BNY Mellon.  In this role, Rob advised the Wealth Management CEO and senior leadership team on all aspects of consumer lending (including forward and reverse mortgages) and wealth management matters (including investment management, custody and trusts and estates / fiduciary issues) for high net worth clients, and provided ongoing advice and assistance on bank regulatory matters.

Prior to joining BNY Mellon, Rob held the roles of Acting General Counsel, Deputy General Counsel and Executive Director at UBS Wealth Management Americas, where his responsibilities included interpreting Dodd-Frank requirements and assessing its business impacts, serving as lead legal counsel on structural, regulatory, transactional and other matters (including those pertaining to the formation and activation of a de novo FDIC-insured bank, margin lending (purpose and non-purpose), brokered deposits, fair lending, the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, Unfair, Deceptive, or Abusive Acts or Practices (UDAAP) issues, the Truth in Savings Act, the Expedited Funds Availability Act, the Truth in Lending Act, the Electronic Funds Transfer Act, the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act and the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act), analyzing state licensing and registration requirements and advising on the applicability of credit crisis regulatory relief programs to UBS.

Prior to Rob’s in-house roles, he was a leverage finance and bankruptcy associate in private practice.