Banking and Finance Law Financial Services Regulation Law FinTech Practice
Franca Harris Gutierrez
Recognized in Best Lawyers since 2012 Awarded Practice Areas
Biography
Franca Harris Gutierrez is Chair of the Financial Institutions Practice. She leads one of the country’s preeminent banking and financial services practices from the firm’s Washington DC office, where she advises domestic and international banks, mortgage servicers, student loan servicers, consumer lending companies and emerging financial services providers on complex regulatory, enforcement and transactional issues. Ms. Harris Gutierrez is an active member of the firm’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Working Group and the FinTech Group. She joined the firm in 1999 from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC).
Overview
- Italian
- Columbia University, J.D., graduated 1994
- Columbia University, MBA, graduated 1994
- District of Columbia, The District of Columbia Bar
- New York, New York State Bar Association
- Italian
- District of Columbia, The District of Columbia Bar
- New York, New York State Bar Association
- Columbia University, J.D., graduated 1994
- Columbia University, MBA, graduated 1994
Client Testimonials
Awards & Focus
Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® 2026 for work in:
- Banking and Finance Law
- Financial Services Regulation Law
- FinTech Practice
Awards:
- Selected as a leading Rainmaker in the November/December 2009 issue of Diversity & the Bar magazine, a publication of the Minority Corporate Counsel Association
- Selected by her peers as a leading attorney in the 2013 and 2014 editions of Washington DC Super Lawyers
- Named one of the "Top Lawyers" in Washington DC by Washingtonian magazine in 2013
- Recognized in the 2012, 2013 and 2014 editions of Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business for her work in financial services regulation
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