Practice Expertise

  • Banking and Financial Services
  • Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)
  • Examinations and CIDs
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Areas of Practice

  • Banking and Financial Services
  • Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)
  • Examinations and CIDs
  • Litigation
  • Regulatory Compliance
  • State Attorneys General and Regulators
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Profile

Greg Pipes assists financial services companies with a wide variety of legal and regulatory compliance-related matters. Greg’s practice focuses primarily on helping financial services clients (including depository institutions, non-bank mortgage originators and servicers, investment firms, debt collectors and other companies in the consumer finance space) navigate all aspects of the consumer regulatory compliance landscape.

On the front end, Greg helps financial services clients ensure their operations are in compliance with applicable federal and state consumer financial laws and government agency guidelines. This includes, among other things, assessing the impact of new rules, helping clients adapt to changes in the regulatory environment and working with business, compliance and legal stakeholders to implement regulatory-related change. Greg also assists clients with gap analyses, risk assessments, mock examinations and targeted reviews aimed at assessing compliance with existing law. In addition, Greg works with clients to review policy and procedure documents, consumer-facing correspondence, training and oversight materials, as well as other compliance-related documentation to ensure accuracy, completeness and compliance.

On the back end, Greg assists clients by leading them through the regulatory supervision, examination and enforcement process. Greg has handled numerous regulatory investigations and enforcement matters, including matters brought by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and various state regulatory bodies. In this role, Greg assists with developing an overall examination and enforcement strategy, managing and responding to information and document requests, rebutting preliminary findings, responding to allegations of legal violations and, when appropriate, negotiating settlement. When necessary, Greg also helps develop and execute tailored correction action plans to remediate regulatory findings. Greg assists clients with investigating and responding to complaints and allegations of regulatory violations made by borrowers, state attorneys general and other regulatory bodies.

Bar Admissions

  • Alabama, 2013

Court Admissions
  • United States District Court, Middle District of Alabama
  • United States District Court, Northern District of Alabama
  • United States District Court, Southern District of Alabama

Education

  • University of Alabama School of Law, J.D., 2013, Senior Editor, Journal of Legal Profession
  • Vanderbilt University, B.A., 2010

Areas of Practice

  • Banking and Financial Services
  • Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)
  • Examinations and CIDs
  • Litigation
  • Regulatory Compliance
  • State Attorneys General and Regulators

Blogs

Declassified

The Declassified blog offers commentary and insights on the latest class action suits, significant class action opinions, relevant changes to laws and rules, and important class action trends. Declassified covers topics ranging from significant Supreme Court and appellate court decisions regarding class certification requirements to proposed or enacted legislation, rules and regulations that impact class action litigation to key industry developments that may indirectly impact class action...

It Pays to Be Covered

Bradley's It Pays to Be Covered Blog discusses insurance law developments and industry trends in property and casualty insurance, including the growing cyber insurance market, coverage for drones, and blockchain exposures. We also address practical risk management strategies of interest to risk managers, legal staff, and corporate officers and directors responsible for property and casualty insurance policy portfolios, claims management, and resolution. Our attorneys provide insights based on...

The Law of Order

Bradley’s The Law of Order blog serves as a general parliamentary procedure resource, providing information about creation and revision of governing documents (constitutions, bylaws, or rules), application of Robert’s Rules of Order and other procedural authorities in a variety of contexts (such as nonprofits, political parties, homeowners associations, unions, churches, trade associations), and leadership of any type of organizational meeting. In an effort to make all things parliamentary more...

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