Legal Advice and Business Law Counseling for the Payments Industry
Brian McQuaid, McQuaid-Law, PLLC
Overview
Trusted Advisor
Brian’s express goal is to be your trusted advisor. Brian strives to establish a relationship with clients so that he can serve as outside general counsel to provide general business consulting to help your business grow and to avoid regulatory and compliance pitfalls. By developing a close relationship with his clients, he is able to understand clients’ overall legal needs and to not only address legal fires that arise, but also to assist shoring up operational deficiencies to strategically avoid future unnecessary legal expenses that commonly plague small- to medium-sized businesses.
Brian is adept at protecting your business and understanding competing goals and interests that arise when litigation is threatened. He knows how to balance aggressive legal tactics with practical concerns in order to represent you most effectively and to recommend strategies that help you minimize professional and financial risk.
Experienced Advocate
For more than 25 years, Brian has represented clients in the courtroom. His practice focuses on payments and payments-related litigation and pre-litigation counseling.
Brian’s experience includes representing his clients in federal and state court litigation and alternative dispute resolution. Before becoming a partner in an international law firm, Brian was a criminal prosecutor in Washington and Arizona. Brian has hundreds of trial days under his belt. He has represented numerous clients in adversarial proceedings before the United States Bankruptcy Court and has substantial deposition, motion, appellate, arbitration, and jury and bench trial experience.
Brian’s experience has enabled him to provide strategic pre-litigation counseling to his clients to successfully avoid disputes and the high costs associated with making and defending claims in contested matters.
Nuvei Corporation
Senior Legal Counsel
2021 - 2023
Base Commerce
Vice President & General Counsel
2017 - 2021
ReNUE Properties Arizona
General Counsel
2019 - 2022
Squire Patton Boggs
Partner
2001 - 2017