Specialized debt finance and fintech counsel.

Meister, P.C. is a San Francisco Bay Area-based law firm specializing in debt finance transactions and fintech corporate matters. We represent credit funds, fintech companies, specialty finance companies, private equity and venture capital funds, family offices and operating companies in connection with debt and equity financing transactions, general corporate matters, strategic partnerships and corporate governance.

Practice Areas

We help clients solve complex business challenges across all phases of their corporate lifecycle.

Commercial Finance and Leveraged Finance

Negotiating and documenting loan, merchant cash advance, factoring and revenue-based financing arrangements and related intercreditor, collateral and third-party documents.

We have extensive experience preparing template transaction documents for volume origination programs, as well as representing clients in connection with complex bilateral or multilateral transactions with lenders, financing customers and third-party creditors.


Structured Credit and Lender Finance

Structuring and closing warehouse lines of credit, forward-flow purchase programs and servicing arrangements, including backup servicing.

We bring deep expertise working with credit funds, specialty finance companies and fintech companies to design and implement first facilities or restructure existing programs.


Bank Partnerships and Fintech Programs

Standing up and operationalizing sponsor bank partnership programs for loan origination or card issuing.

We support fintechs and banks in connection with sponsor program agreements, originate-to-sell structures, true lender and rate exportation, marketing and servicing arrangements, oversight and audit rights, third-party risk management, program transition and wind-down.


Licensing and Compliance

Designing and supporting risk-based licensing and compliance frameworks for credit originators and servicers.

We assist clients with state lending and broker licensing, money transmission, TILA, ECOA and UDAAP compliance, operational compliance program design, disclosure and servicing reviews, state examination readiness, enforcement and inquiry response, diligence for lenders and acquirers.

How We Work

Relationship-based

We take the long view on client relationships and calibrate our work product and approach to meet our clients where they are in their market or in the context of their particular transaction.


Client-empowering

While our knowledge base is specialized, we strive to deliver work product that empowers clients to run their businesses or evaluate decisions with as much autonomy as they choose.


Market-anchored, client-focused

We stay abreast of market trends and developments to anchor our advice to clients and our approach with counterparties, without losing sight of our clients' objectives.

Attorney

Thomas Meister

Shareholder

Tom Meister brings a decade and a half of experience as a fintech and lending executive, an operator and a debt finance practitioner.

Tom's prior experience includes serving as a Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel of venture-backed financial technology companies and practicing as a debt finance attorney at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati P.C. and Goodwin Procter. He has also been a venture-backed fintech founder and general partner of a credit fund.

He is a member of the Financial Lawyers Conference and the California Receivers Forum, and previously served as an observer on the joint Uniform Law Commission/American Law Institute UCC Emerging Technologies Drafting Committee for UCC Article 12.


  • Admitted: California, 2012. District of Columbia, 2020. Michigan, 2026.
  • Law school: UC Berkeley School of Law, J.D.; Executive Editor, Berkeley Journal of International Law.
  • Undergraduate: Columbia University, B.A., cum laude.

Contact

Please reach out if you'd like to schedule a consultation or if we can otherwise be of assistance.

Office

360 22nd Street, Suite 700
Oakland, California 94612

Reach Us

Email: info@meisterpc.com
Phone: (510) 457-1574
Web: www.meisterpc.com