Eli Elias advises companies, financial institutions, founders, and management teams on legal, regulatory, compliance, and strategic matters involving financial services, fintech, emerging technologies, and evolving regulatory frameworks.

His practice focuses on regulatory enforcement and examinations, internal investigations, governance, compliance, and business-critical risk matters. Eli's background spans legal, consulting, compliance, and operational roles, including independent advisory work for businesses and law firms, giving him a practical and cross-functional perspective on complex legal, regulatory, and business challenges.

Eli was previously a Senior Principal at Promontory Financial Group, where he led regulatory, compliance, and risk advisory projects for banks, broker-dealers, fintech companies, and other financial institutions. His work included SEC- and FINRA-related matters involving disclosure, internal investigations, whistleblower programs, and compliance program design.

Eli also worked closely with global financial institutions on banking regulatory, anti-bribery, financial crimes, governance, and third-party risk management matters, including projects working closely with a range of regulatory agencies such as the Federal Reserve, OCC, SEC, FINRA, and NYDFS. His experience includes designing and implementing legal and compliance frameworks, policies, procedures, controls, training programs, and escalation processes in coordination with legal, compliance, business, and operational stakeholders across complex organizations.

Earlier in his career, Eli worked at Kalorama Partners, a law + consulting boutique, advising on securities litigation, disclosure issues, corporate governance, internal investigations, and regulatory matters involving the SEC and CFTC. His work included matters involving Dodd-Frank rulemaking, hedge fund legal and compliance, activist shareholders, and governance reforms arising from high-profile litigation.

Eli brings a cross-functional and business-oriented approach to legal and regulatory counseling, particularly in matters involving emerging financial products, technology-driven markets, and novel regulatory issues.