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Mauricio Videla, ’12, has been named to the American Bar Association’s Top 40 Young Lawyer for 2021. In addition to his legal career where he works in financial services, he is adjunct law professor, and a published author, among many other accomplishments.

Videla is a financial services attorney and federal commissioned compliance examiner at the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) in New York City. He serves in various key roles across the CFPB’s divisional offices to help execute the agency’s statutory mandate. Most recently, as a member of the Office of Innovation, he works with companies, consumer groups, regulators, and other stakeholders to promote competition, innovation, and consumer access. He is a senior Examiner-in-Charge in the Office of Supervision Examinations where he provides supervisory oversight over large and complex financial institutions. Additionally, he served in the Office of Enforcement, performing enforcement investigations of financial services companies to deter unfair, deceptive, or abusive acts or practices.

Videla also serves as a Financial Industry Regulatory Authority arbitrator to help resolve securities-related disputes between and among investors, brokerage firms, and individual brokers by weighing the facts and rendering final and binding decisions.

He is an adjunct professor of administrative law, politics, and policy at Marist College School of Management and serves as a guest lecturer on banking and financial law at Pace University Elisabeth Haub School of Law.

His diverse professional background includes various legal, compliance, retail banking, commercial insurance, and corporate governance roles at private and public institutions, such as the Bronx Borough President’s Office, Citibank, Chubb Insurance, Cohen & Malad LLP, Office of the Mayor of the City of New York, TD Bank’s Office of the General Counsel and Consumer Compliance Department, and U.S. Bankruptcy Court Eastern District of New York in the chambers of Judge Elizabeth S. Stong. 

Videla is a published author, frequent speaker, and appointed leader in the ABA Business Law Section where he serves in multiple leadership roles, including co-chair of the Programs Committee and chair of the Consumer Financial Services Committee’s Diversity & Inclusion Task Force. He formerly served as co-chair of the Young Lawyer Committee.

He is currently pursuing a diploma from the American Bankers Association Stonier Graduate School of Banking and an Executive Leadership certificate from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He earned a Juris Doctor from Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, Master of Public Administration from Baruch College Marxe School of Public and International Affairs, and Bachelor of Arts from St. John’s University.

The ABA’s "On the Rise – Top 40 Young Lawyers" award program provides national recognition of ABA Young Lawyers Division members who exemplify a broad range of high achievement, innovation, vision, leadership, and service to the profession and their communities.