Atty. Barry Hester
Barry Hester leverages his prior experience as in-house counsel for a leading financial institution to provide clients with strategic advice, compliance insights, and practical guidance in addressing their financial services transactional and regulatory matters. Barry seeks to obtain results efficiently and to provide actionable, technical, market-based guidance.
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Barry Hester is an attorney based in Atlanta, Georgia, practicing at Alston & Bird LLP. Recognitions include Best Lawyers in America — FinTech Practice (2026). Serands clients in Atlanta, GA and the surrounding metropolitan area.
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- Barry Hester leverages his prior experience as in-house counsel for a leading financial institution to provide clients with strategic advice, compliance insights, and practical guidance in addressing their financial services transactional and regulatory matters
- Barry seeks to obtain results efficiently and to provide actionable, technical, market-based guidance
- Barry provides transactional and compliance advice to banks and special-purpose financial institutions, as well as payment processors, card program managers, and other data processing and fintech firms
- Barry has years of experience supporting innovative banking and payments businesses
- He enjoys working on digital transformation, automation, and other consumer and B2B financial services projects, especially those involving novel bank-fintech partnerships
- Clients call on Barry to structure and negotiate banking-as-a-service (BaaS), core processing, merchant acquiring, and similar strategic commercial agreements as well as assessing state licensing risk and pursuing such licensing or innovative bank charters
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Why local counsel matters in Georgia
Practicing law in Georgia. Legal matters in Georgia are governed by state-specific rules of civil and criminal procedure, statutes of limitations, and substantive law. Cases originating in Atlanta are typically filed in the local municipal court or the appropriate Georgia state district court, depending on subject matter and amount in controversy. An attorney licensed in Georgia brings working knowledge of local procedural deadlines, judicial practices in this andnue, and the substantive law that applies to cases brought here. Out-of-state attorneys generally cannot represent clients in Georgia courts without local counsel or pro hac vice admission.
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