Ropes & Gray announced that Jarryd Anderson has joined the firm as a partner in Washington, D.C. Anderson will serve as Chair of the firm’s Financial Services Group.
He is a banking and financial services regulatory lawyer with experience across the Federal Reserve, major financial institutions, and private practice.
Anderson advises clients on supervisory, transactional, and enforcement matters, with a practice covering bank combinations, corporate governance, payment systems, digital assets, resolution planning, Volcker Rule requirements, anti-money laundering, and consent order remediation.
Ropes & Gray said Anderson’s arrival comes as U.S. bank M&A activity has returned to pre-pandemic levels, with more than $60 billion in announced deal value over the past 12 months.
The firm said his addition will help clients identify regulatory obstacles earlier, pressure-test deal structures before signing, and navigate bank, fintech, asset management, and sponsor transactions with more certainty around approval risk and timing.
Anderson began his career at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, where he served as a regulatory policy advisor in the Division of Supervision and Regulation.
In that role, he helped shape the post-crisis approval framework for bank mergers and acquisitions.
He later held senior in-house roles at Wells Fargo and TD Bank before moving to private practice.
Anderson currently serves on the FDIC Systemic Resolution Advisory Committee and has guided bank mergers through concurrent reviews by the Federal Reserve, OCC, and FDIC.
He has also advised fintechs and other nonbanks on bank charter applications and represented global financial institutions before federal banking agencies and Congress.
KEY QUOTES:
“Regulatory judgment is a deciding factor in whether financial services deals get done—and in whether institutions can successfully navigate supervisory scrutiny in times of stress. Jarryd has sat on every side of that equation – writing the rules at the Fed, navigating them in-house, and advising on them in private practice. That means our clients get someone who can position their transactions for approval before problems surface.”
Julie Jones, Chair of Ropes & Gray
“Client demand for bank regulatory advice integrated into deal work has grown exponentially, and Jarryd enables us to meet that demand at the highest level. Having a partner who understands both the transaction and the regulatory approval process from day one means our clients get greater speed and greater certainty.”
Jackie Cohen, Co-Leader of the Strategic Transactions Practice at Ropes & Gray
“What drew me to Ropes & Gray is the opportunity to build a financial services regulatory practice inside a platform with real depth in M&A, investigations, and litigation. The most consequential questions for banks, asset managers, fintechs and sponsors today sit at the intersection of deal execution, supervisory expectations, and enforcement and resolution risk—and that is exactly where this team operates.”
Jarryd Anderson
