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Neil Peretz

Neil Peretz

General Counsel at Sawa Credit Inc.

Neil Peretz has served as general counsel of multiple companies, particularly in the financial services and technology industries, as well as a corporate CEO, CFO, and COO.

Outside of the corporate sphere, he co-founded the Office of Enforcement of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and practiced law with the US Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission. Peretz holds a JD from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Law, an LLM (master of laws) from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (where he was a Fulbright Scholar), bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Tufts University, and has been ABD at the George Mason University School of Public Policy.

He previously co-founded legal technology company Contract Wrangler, which applied artificial intelligence to read legal agreements.  Follow him online at linkedin.com/in/neilperetz.

My Articles

Technology, Privacy, and eCommerce

AI vs. the Tower of Legal Babble

On a regular basis, we are presented with headlines explaining how artificial intelligence (AI) is going take over our work so we can glide around on self-driving electric scooters all day while being hand-fed by robots. Yet when we go home and ask Siri to turn on the “lights,” it instead offers us treatment for “lice.”
Technology, Privacy, and eCommerce

The Ballad of John Henry, Esq.

Compare games like chess and Go to a typical legal document, such as a contract: Far more than six key terms are at play in most agreements. And the contract represents a business relationship that likely has multiple opportunities for winning and losing, depending on what is happening on a particular day.
Technology, Privacy, and eCommerce

Contracts Unleashed

It is a sign of the times when we have a dog-walking company (Wag Labs) raising US$300 million in venture capital to turn a household activity into a mobile phone-driven on-demand service. Meanwhile stalwart software licensors, ranging from Adobe to Microsoft, have switched their offerings to an ongoing subscription, rather than an upfront fee.
Compliance and Ethics

How to Define Your Domain as the Head of Compliance

Before you can manage corporate compliance, you need to reach an agreement with other team members about what compliance means. For some organizations, the compliance team focuses solely on legal responsibilities to regulators. At others, compliance can encompass responsibilities to commercial partners and suppliers, such as a corporate lender.