Nadja van der Veer
(+31) 6.4343.6023 nadja@paymentcounsel.com
Nadja is a EU-based Dutch lawyer with almost 10 years of experience in the international Card Payments industry and a legal expert in rules and regulations involving Financial Services/ the EU Payment Service Directive (PSD), Compliance, AML and Customer Due Diligence (CDD), Card Schemes (Visa and MasterCard), money remittance and data protection.
She has acquired experience both as a Deputy General Counsel for a global Payment Service Provider and as a VP Legal & Regulatory for a European Acquirer. This gives her a broad perspective on all legal and business aspects of Card Payment and Alternative Payment processing in the global e-Commerce industry. Nadja consults Merchant Acquirers, Payment Services Providers (PSPs/MSPs) and other FinTech companies in their start-up phases that want to expand their business internationally, while mitigating risk.
Morgan Andrews
(+1) 415.690.9829 morgan@paymentcounsel.com
Morgan is an experienced, US-based payments attorney, specializing in cross-border transactions. Morgan works with international payment suppliers to speed their time to revenue by streamlining contract negotiations with merchants, vendors and partners.
Morgan’s deep supplier-side experience also benefits merchants through the assessment of existing processing agreements, and the swift and efficient negotiation of domestic and global payments processing agreements.
Prior to establishing her own practice, Morgan led the legal department for the US, APAC and Latin American offices of a global PSP. Morgan negotiated hundreds of merchant agreements (including Fortune 500 companies), complex payment vendor relationships, and banking and acquiring relationships, while maintaining legal and regulatory compliance in the regions.