Andrew Lindsay advises banks, broker-dealers and other financial institutions, including financial technology companies, on a broad range of regulatory compliance and enforcement matters as part of the firm’s Financial Institutions Practice and Securities and Financial Services Department. He was an associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP in New York before joining the firm. Prior to embarking on his legal career, Mr. Lindsay held research and policy positions at the Brennan Center at NYU Law School, Charles Hamilton Houston Institute at Harvard Law School, Roosevelt Institute, and Criminal Justice Policy Foundation. In 2021, the American Constitution Society recognized Mr. Lindsay as a Next Generation Leader.

During law school, Mr. Lindsay served as Editor in Chief of the Duke Law & Technology Review and Special Staff Editor of the Duke Journal of Gender & Law Policy. He received the Dean’s Merit Scholarship and Ruffa & Gallagher Scholarship for his academic achievements. Actively involved in legal clinics, Mr. Lindsay was a student attorney in Duke’s Wrongful Convictions Clinic, Amicus Lab, and Immigrant Rights Clinic. His work in the Immigrant Rights Clinic contributed to the release of a lawful permanent resident wrongfully detained for over 16 months. Mr. Lindsay externed for the Honorable George Hazel at the United States District Court for the District of Maryland.

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  • Education

    • JD, Duke University School of Law, 2021

      Editor in Chief, Duke Law & Technology Review; Special Staff Editor, Duke Journal of Gender & Law Policy Dean’s Merit Scholar; Ruffa & Gallagher Scholar
    • BA, Law, Jurisprudence & Social Thought and Political Science, Amherst College, 2016

      cum laude Mellon Fellow; John Woodruff Simpson Fellow; Montgomery Family Scholar; Amherst Critical Theory Fellow; Truman Scholarship Finalist; Rhodes Scholarship Nominee
  • Admissions

    • New York

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