Frantz Jacques

Frantz Jacques is a corporate attorney whose practice area focuses on mergers and acquisitions, fintech law, debt and equity financing, corporate governance, securities regulation, and cross-border transactions. Mr. Jacques has provided value-added legal counsel to clients in all aspects of the business lifecycle, from business formation; capital formation; buying, selling, and divesting assets; to executing exit strategies.  He is the Chair of the DC Bar CFSL Community, Committee on FinTech Regulation & Enforcement; and the Co-Chair of the Committee on DEIA in Business and Finance.  His perspective and publications are highly regarded among his peers in the industry.

Mr. Jacques is a graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center with a Master of Laws in Securities and Financial Regulation.  While at Georgetown Law, he was an Articles Editor for the Journal of International Economic Law, a board member of the Securities and Financial Law Organization, and served as a teaching assistant in the SEC University Office of Graduate Programs.  He also served as team coordinator of a consortium of Georgetown University Law Center Trade Law Clinic and Trapca members, providing technical assistance to the African Union for the drafting and negotiating of the Continental Free Trade Area Dispute Settlement Chapter.  Mr. Jacques is a board member of Patrick’s Kids Foundation and Financial Services Professionals, and the Chairman of Haiti Projects.

REPRESENTATIVE TRANSACTIONS INCLUDE:

• Advised client on equity investments and provided legal and regulatory guidance for fintech projects.
• Advised a digital marketplace bank on third-party risk management in commercial transactions and helped the nascent bank meet its various regulatory requirements.
• Lead team of associates in preparing private placement memoranda and other supporting documents for a $500 million private placement pursuant to Rule 506 under the Securities Act of 1933.
• Assisted a private equity fund in entity formation and the fundraising process pursuant to Section 3(c)(7) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, and drafted the limited partnership agreements for partnership interest in the funds to include a deal-by-deal distribution waterfall provision.
• Drafted and negotiated stock purchase agreements and other supporting documents for various leveraged buyouts.
• Drafted management and consulting agreements between a private equity fund with over $1.2 billion of assets under management and a capital management limited liability corporation.
• Drafted offering materials and related documents in connection with private placements of equity and debt securities pursuant to Rule 506 under the Securities Act.
• Prepared Forms 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K on behalf of public companies.
• Drafted promissory note in connection with a cash and debt financing merger transaction.
• Drafted corporate resolutions in connection with merger transactions.
• Assisted target companies prepare disclosure schedules in connection with merger transactions.
• Conducted due diligence investigations in connection with leveraged buyouts.
• Advised a technology company in negotiating and drafting a broad-based weighted average anti-dilution provision in a series C fundraising round of convertible preferred stocks.
• Incorporated a telecommunications venture with the Washington, D.C. Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs Business and Professional Licensing Administration Corporation Division.
• Drafted master distribution and marketing license agreement in a complex commercial transaction involving licensing rights to a publicly held information technology firm.
• Represented a distributor in the negotiation of a multi-regional licensing right to a newly patented product.
• Structured a cross-border transaction between a private investment fund and a real estate development company to build a hotel in the Caribbean islands, with an arbitration clause based on UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules and London Court of International Arbitration Rules.

Publication & Events:

• Author, The Coming of Age of Digital Assets: Key Policy, Regulatory and Legal Considerations, ABA Business Law Today, August 14, 2025
• Author, Intersectionality of Regulatory Law and Development of Digital Assets, Bloomberg Law, December 19, 2024
• Author, Banking Guidance Gives Fintech Risk Tools for Third-Party Deals, Bloomberg Law, September 01, 2023
• Author, M&A Transactions and the Fintech Ecosystem, ABA Business Law Today, January 25, 2023
• Author, The Evolving Landscape of SPACs, ABA Business Law Today, February 07, 2022
• Author, The Potential Effect of M&A Law on the Evolution of SPAC Transactions, ABA Business Law Today, March 02, 2021
• Author, Securities Law and Digital Asset Products, Bloomberg Law, January 19, 2021
• Financial Services Professionals Panelist, Digital Assets: Promises and Pitfalls, December 6, 2022
• American Bar Association Practice Area Insights Presenter, SPACs: Here to Stay? June 27, 2022
• DC Bar Panel Moderator, Nasdaq’s Board Diversity Rule: Implementation and Impact, November 30, 2021
• DC Bar Panel Moderator, SPACs and the Fintech Ecosystem: Legal and Regulatory Insight for Lawyers, September 27, 2021
• DC Bar Panel Moderator, The Rise of CBDCs and Stable Coins: Legal and Regulatory Insight for Lawyers, December 02, 2020