Robin Nunn is a partner in the litigation, arbitration, and investigations practice of a global law firm, where she advises domestic and international banks, investment advisers, broker-dealers, mortgage servicers, student loan servicers, consumer lending companies, and emerging financial services providers on complex regulatory, enforcement, and transactional issues. Robin’s practice focuses on counseling banks, as well as innovators in the digital space, in meeting compliance obligations in a complex web of regulatory requirements. Robin is an active member of the firm’s Consumer Financial Services Group, Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance Group, FinTech Group, and Digital Assets Initiative. Robin has a wealth of experience gained in private practice as well as working in-house for Fortune 500 companies.
Robin practice focuses on a range of matters at the intersection of law, business and government policy. She has significant experience in commercial, government-facing and appellate litigation, as well as strategic counseling in high-stakes cases, anti-discrimination matters and investigations. Robin maintains an active enforcement practice and defends banks, card issuers, mortgage servicers, auto finance companies, student loan servicers, and other financial services providers before the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Federal Reserve Board of Governors, and other federal and state enforcement bodies. She has deep experience with the most complex and high-stakes enforcement actions, often defending parallel proceedings by two or three federal regulators and numerous state regulators or attorneys general.
Robin is also a leader in the areas of retail financial services and consumer protection. She counsels on novel issues connected to new communication technologies, blockchain, cryptocurrencies, payments, artificial intelligence, and big data. She also has advised large banks and newly regulated entities on adapting to the CFPB since its inception. Robin regularly advises consumer financial services clients on a wide variety of legal issues, including the federal consumer financial protection laws, mortgage servicing rules, the Fair Housing and Equal Credit Opportunity Acts, state consumer protection and licensing laws, and data security and privacy laws.
Robin has long represented financial institutions in their highest priority and most challenging regulatory issues and manages all aspects of her clients’ regulatory relationships. Her work before the Federal Reserve, the OCC, and the FDIC, spans charter, license, and other applications; bank capital and affiliate transactions; bank powers and activities; controlling and non-controlling investments; anti-money laundering compliance; responses to supervisory examination issues; and preparation of comment letters, analyses, and strategies for agency rulemakings.
Robin has provided regulatory counsel to some of the most innovative and successful financial services ventures, including new product development for prominent cryptocurrency, peer-to-peer, mobile, and online-only lending and payments platforms. She regularly advises clients on the complex regulatory, transactional, outsourcing, and vendor management issues raised by cutting edge financial innovations.
Before joining Linklaters, Robin served as in-house counsel with two Fortune 500 companies. In those roles, she established and executed legal strategies for the company’s legal department, including on lawsuits and enforcement matters. She also counseled internal clients on legal issues across the business, including on cybersecurity, breach response, product design and launch, regulatory compliance, corporate governance, credit, operations, underwriting, and risk in a broad range of products including financial services, credit card, mortgage, auto, broker-dealer, and banking.
