Mr. Paridon is counsel in Davis Polk’s Financial Institutions Group, practicing in the Washington DC office. He provides bank regulatory advice on a wide variety of financial regulatory matters, including bank M&A and capital markets transactions, enforcement actions and financial regulatory reform.

Between 2008 and 2014, Mr. Paridon served in the Legal Division of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, most recently as counsel, where he concentrated on regulation of banks and bank holding companies under the Bank Holding Company Act (“BHC Act”), Change in Bank Control Act, and Federal Reserve Act, among others. Most recently, he worked on implementation of various aspects of implementing the Dodd-Frank Act, including the Volcker Rule, swaps push-out, and financial sector concentration limit.

During his time at the Federal Reserve, Mr. Paridon worked on and advised regarding numerous U.S. and non-U.S. mergers and acquisitions of all types and sizes involving banks, bank holding companies, and nonbanking subsidiaries. During his tenure, he was also involved in overseeing the conformance of a number of new bank holding companies, including work on determining whether certain activities were permissible under the BHC Act. Mr. Paridon has significant experience working on investments in banks and bank holding companies by private equity investors.

He previously served as government relations counsel at the American Bankers Association and attorney-advisor with the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Office of the General Counsel.