Ro Spaziani

Rosemary "Ro" Spaziani is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Ro is a member of the Financial Institutions, Financial Regulatory, and FinTech and Digital Assets Practice Groups. Ro brings extensive experience advising U.S. and non-U.S. financial institutions on the full spectrum of transactional, governance, regulatory and supervisory matters, including complex mergers and acquisitions and enforcement actions. She routinely represents clients before the Federal Reserve, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and state regulators. She also regularly advises clients in the establishment of commercial relationships to between banks and financial companies, as well as the creation and development of new deposit, digital asset and payments platforms.

Prior to joining the firm, Ro was a managing director at Goldman Sachs, where she served as the global head of the bank regulatory, deposits and transaction banking legal practice groups. In such capacity, she was responsible for a number of strategic acquisitions and builds, including the acquisition of the retail deposit platform and the development and launch of the global transaction banking business. Most recently, Ro was at a major U.S. law firm, where she focused on bank mergers and acquisitions. Ro began her career at a multinational law firm in New York and serves on the board of The Acting Company.
Ro graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Sociology, magna cum laude, from Bucknell University and a Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School.