Chris McCall
Chris McCall
- Regulatory Compliance
- Litigation & Enforcement
- Fintech
Biography
Chris advises banks, financial services and financial technology companies, and individuals on a broad range of litigation, enforcement, and regulatory matters, including individual and class action litigation, government enforcement actions, internal investigations, examinations and compliance reviews. Chris has extensive experience with the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, Regulation F, state and federal unfair, deceptive, and abusive acts or practices (UDAAP) laws, the Dodd-Frank Act, the National Bank Act, the Electronic Funds Transfer Act, and the CARD Act. He has more than a decade of experience litigating complex commercial cases in state and federal courts, with a particular focus on consumer protection and other issues impacting the financial services industry.
As an assistant attorney general in the New York Attorney General Office’s Consumer Frauds & Protection Bureau, Chris led investigations of financial institutions, debt collectors, student loan servicers, utility providers, health clubs and other businesses for violations of state and federal consumer protection laws. He was the lead attorney for the State of New York in lawsuits brought under the Administrative Procedure Act against the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation challenging regulations regarding interest rate exportation and preemption, Madden v. Midland, and the “true lender” doctrine. Chris was the primary drafter of guidance issued to financial institutions and debt collectors regarding garnishment of CARES Act and American Rescue Plan Act stimulus payments. He was also the primary drafter of several formal policy documents submitted to federal regulators on behalf of New York and bipartisan coalitions of dozens of other states regarding a broad range of issues including fintech, debt collection, and federal preemption.
Earlier in his career, as a litigation associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell, LLP and Friedman Kaplan Seiler & Adelman, LLP in New York City, he represented plaintiffs and defendants in cases regarding securities fraud, commercial fraud, contract disputes, and internal investigations regarding insider trading and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
Previous Experience
New York Attorney General Office’s Consumer Frauds & Protection Bureau
Davis Polk & Wardwell, LLP
Friedman Kaplan Seiler & Adelman, LLP
Hon. Denny Chin, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
Professional and Community Activities
Former treasurer of the NYAG’s first LGBTQ employee resource group
Fun Facts
Favorite Apps
Equinox
Capital BikeShare
NYT Spelling Bee
Superpower
Speed reading
Favorite Thing to Binge Watch
30 Rock
It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia
Barefoot Contessa
Passions
Animals
Fitness
Learning new things
Education
J.D., Fordham Law School, summa cum laude, Order of the Coif
Writing & Research Editor of the Fordham Law Review
B.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison, highest honors
Admissions
District of Columbia
New York