Karyn Caldwell rejoins Zausmer to establish our Financial Services Practice and to expand the capabilities of our Environmental Law practice.
Karyn is a financial services and regulatory attorney who advises businesses operating in heavily regulated environments. She has 25 years of experience in complex disputes, regulatory compliance, and transactional risk, including more than a decade in senior in-house roles at large financial institutions.
Karyn began her career in private practice, where she handled complex commercial litigation for regulated businesses. She then moved in-house to broaden her perspective on risk and operations, serving in senior legal roles at the nation’s largest financial institutions. In those roles, she advised executive leadership on consumer and commercial finance, managed nationwide litigation, and worked with federal and state regulators during examinations and investigations.
Karyn understands how regulated businesses operate because she has advised them from both sides. She has managed class actions, regulatory inquiries, and high-stakes disputes while guiding business leaders through compliance and transactional risk. That perspective strengthens the firm’s platform in financial services and environmental law.
Karyn draws on 25 years of litigation, regulatory, and transactional experience. In private practice, she handled class actions, securities disputes, bankruptcy litigation, employment claims, and environmental toxic tort and cost recovery actions. Her litigation background shapes how she assesses exposure and builds strategy.
As in-house counsel, she advised on mortgage and auto lending, debt sales, licensing, fair lending, privacy, cybersecurity, anti-money laundering, sanctions, and debt collection. She translated regulatory requirements into business processes designed to withstand scrutiny.
At Zausmer, Karyn will counsel financial institutions and other regulated entities facing litigation, regulatory oversight, and transactional risk. She will also support the Environmental Law team in
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