Background

A career built across
institutions and ideas.

Kale Pasch at the entrance to a landmark buildingNEW YORK / 2026KALE PASCHLAW · MARKETS · GAMING · TECHNOLOGY

Kale Pasch is a New York-based attorney, CFA charterholder, founder, and technology builder working on the legal and commercial architecture of financial products and emerging markets.

His practice and research span derivatives, fintech, digital assets, prediction markets, gaming and interactive products, and the operational realities of regulated innovation. He founded the Prediction Markets Advisors Institute, a separately governed professional-standards initiative for people working across prediction markets and novel contracts. Before private practice, Kale held roles in national bank examination, regulatory compliance, and financial-product development—experience that grounds his legal work in how systems operate in practice.

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Current role

Associate,
Derivatives

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
New York

Education & credentials

  • J.D., magna cum laude — Rutgers Law School
  • CFA charterholder — 2021
  • B.S., Finance & Accounting — University of Pittsburgh
  • Admitted in New York and New Jersey
  • Series 3 — 2025

Selected experience

2026 — present

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Associate, Derivatives

Complex OTC derivatives and financial products.

2024 — 2026

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Associate, Corporate — FinTech, Crypto, Trading & Markets

Regulatory and transactional work for emerging companies and financial platforms.

2021 — 2024

Rutgers Law School

Senior Research Fellow & Teaching Assistant

Research on U.S. and international crypto-asset regulation, comparative digital-asset supervision, and healthcare compliance regimes.

2023 — 2024

New Jersey Economic Development Authority

Senior Legal Analyst

Policy design and regulatory implementation research.

2019 — 2021

Froogal Inc.

CEO & Founder

VC-backed fintech platform for retail cash-sweep optimization and collaborative financial planning.

2017 — 2023

OCC, Bank of America & Fulton Bank

Regulatory, compliance & product roles

Bank examination, regulatory implementation, and product leadership.

Kale Pasch presenting at a fintech eventFOUNDER / 2019—2021FROOGAL INC.FINTECH · PRODUCT · EXECUTION12,000 U.S. BANKS
RETAIL CASH-SWEEP OPTIMIZATION

Founder story

Building in
financial services.

After serving as an Associate National Bank Examiner at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Kale founded Froogal, a VC-backed fintech company supported by RevTech Labs.

Froogal built a retail cash-sweep optimization engine spanning approximately 12,000 U.S. banks, alongside collaborative financial-planning tools designed for individual, couple, and group use cases.

The experience continues to inform a practical approach to regulated product design: understand the system, identify the real user decision, and build with the regulatory perimeter in view.

Professional affiliations

American Bar Association
Business Law Committees.

  • Gaming Law
  • Derivatives and Futures Law
  • Electronic Financial Services and Digital Currency
  • Payments and Electronic Banking
  • Securities, Capital Markets and Derivatives
  • Consumer Financial Services