Combining his four years’ experience at the center of some of the nation’s most critical public policy debates as Chief of Staff to the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy, and his decades of experience advising and representing financial institutions, Eric Mogilnicki focuses his practice on assisting financial services clients with investigations, examinations and enforcement actions by government regulators, including the CFPB, FTC, OCC, and FDIC. Since the CFPB’s founding in 2011, Eric has been a national leader within the private bar on CFPB enforcement and policy issues. His regulatory experience spans the lifecycle of interactions with agencies, including:

counseling clients facing informal requests for information;

providing financial institutions and other interested parties with product reviews, mock examinations and other guidance prior to the commencement of examinations;

representing entities in responding to civil investigative demands, including Petitions to Withdraw the CID;

negotiating Consent Orders; and

assisting financial institutions in complying with Consent Orders.
   

Eric’s clients include major banks and credit card issuers, federal credit unions, and national financial trade associations. Eric also represents major corporations with financing subsidiaries that receive CFPB and FTC scrutiny.

Eric is a past chair of the American Bar Association Committee on Consumer Financial Services, and has also chaired that Committee’s Federal and State Trade Practices Subcommittee and its Litigation and Arbitration Subcommittee. He now serves on the American Bar Association’s Business Law Section Council, and on its Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Board. He is a Member of the American College of Consumer Financial Service Lawyers and the Conference on Consumer Finance Law, and frequently writes and speaks on regulatory issues.