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Robby H. Birnbaum

Robby H. Birnbaum

Partner

(954) 343-6959 Boca RatonCypress Creek Download vCard

Robby H. Birnbaum began his law career with Greenspoon Marder LLP in 1998 and has practiced with the firm ever since.  Mr. Birnbaum is a Partner and Practice Group Leader of the Regulatory Compliance and Financial Services Practice Groups and serves on the firm’s Management Committee.  Mr. Birnbaum also Chairs the firm’s Health and Consumer Insurance Sales Regulatory Group.

For over 25 years, Mr. Birnbaum has provided proactive, successful compliance strategies and outcomes to financial, direct consumer sales and insurance industry clients. Mr. Birnbaum also has substantial experience in the travel and vacation resort industries, representing and counseling some of the largest travel providers and sellers of vacation and business travel services in the world.

Mr. Birnbaum’s practice focuses on providing comprehensive legal advice and regulatory advocacy to nonbank financial products and services providers, advertisers and marketers, health insurance and health-related service sellers, along with trade and professional associations. He practices before the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), CFPB, offices of State Attorneys’ General, state banking and financial services departments and federal and state insurance regulators.

Mr. Birnbaum maintains a vigorous representation of television and social media marketers in front of the National Advertising Division of the Better Business Bureau, maintaining the closest possible relationships with the ad review councils and regulators.

A substantial portion of Mr. Birnbaum’s work involves assisting clients with proactive regulatory compliance to remain out of the crosshairs of regulators and expensive class action lawsuits.  Mr. Birnbaum immerses himself in the industries of his clients, advising clients on how to minimize the legal risks related to providing, advertising, and marketing financial and health insurance products and services to consumers under federal and state consumer protection laws, including laws and regulations under the jurisdiction of the CFPB and FTC.

Mr. Birnbaum’s team also assists with state licensing and agency compliance reviews.  He regularly advises on the design of compliance management systems tailored to specific client needs and government expectations.  Mr. Birnbaum supervises a paralegal team that handles nationwide loan brokers, lending, travel, debt management and insurance licensing.

Mr. Birnbaum is an experienced advertising attorney who regularly advises clients on consumer protection issues, specifically with regard to advertising and promotions, including digital media and lead generation, as well as consumer credit and financial services laws, privacy laws and regulations. He has extensive experience in the issues surrounding mobile marketing, target marketing, lead generation, affiliate marketing, social media, and user-generated content.  Mr. Birnbaum has widely counseled clients on compliance with state and federal banking and insurance regulations, along with the sweeping wave of recent state privacy law regulations.

Mr. Birnbaum focuses on defending clients in regulatory investigations and enforcement actions pursued by the CFPB, FTC, State Attorneys’ General, and other state regulatory agencies, as well as advising in private litigation involving claims, such as false or misleading advertising, TCPA and telemarketing challenges, and unfair, deceptive, or abusive acts and practices.

Mr. Birnbaum is heavily involved as the “go-to attorney” for the debt settlement, consumer credit counseling, vehicle service contracts, seller of travel, and credit repair industries, actively representing over 500 companies in those industries in all areas from lead generation to administrative licensing and contract fulfillment.  Mr. Birnbaum also counsels the financial partners and supports vendors of those industries and is active in their trade associations.

Mr. Birnbaum regularly counsels private equity and venture capital funds, along with public companies, on their potential investments and market activity in regard to his practice areas.  Mr. Birnbaum regularly supports and serves as lead counsel and advisor on multi-million-dollar buyouts and investments.  Mr. Birnbaum serves as outside general counsel to many of the firm’s largest advertising, financial, insurance and other public companies.

Mr. Birnbaum is on the Board of Directors for the Association for Consumer Debt Relief, served as the elected president of the American Fair Credit Council, the National Association of Credit Service Organizations, and the Administrator of the Vehicle Protection Association. He is exceptionally active in Congressional and legislative affairs groups, bringing those direct insights and current updates back to the firm’s clients.  Moreover, affiliate marketing, publisher/affiliate lead generation and sales, and network referrals round out Mr. Birnbaum’s practice areas.

Over the last twenty-five years, Mr. Birnbaum has likely resolved, without the need for litigation and to the great satisfaction of his clients, more state and federal government investigations and inquiries than any other attorney.

Mr. Birnbaum graduated from the University of Wisconsin for both his undergraduate studies and law degree.  He resides in Boca Raton, Florida, practicing from the firm’s Boca Raton, Fort Lauderdale, and Miami offices.  Mr. Birnbaum can be reached at (954)343.6959 and [email protected].

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