Our Team

Blake Wilkie, Esq.

Blake Wilkie’s legal practice focuses on creditors’ rights litigation and strategic counsel. Through his career, he has served fintech funders in both law firm and in-house counsel settings. In those roles, he gained invaluable experience advising a multitude of large and small companies regarding federal, state, and local laws, as well as developing and implementing comprehensive collection strategies and enforcement procedures.

Blake honed his litigation skills in several fast-paced law firm environments, while his in-house experience lends a unique view of the goals, objectives and concerns of the funder. Unifying these approaches allows him to analyze legal problems from multiple perspectives to solve his clients’ legal issues efficiently and effectively. From pre-litigation matters through final resolution, he is trained to identify a wide variety of legal issues that arise on a day-to-day basis, how to respond to them, and how to prevent them before they arise in the future.

After graduating from the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, Blake obtained his J.D. from the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University, where he was a Managing Editor of the Arizona State Law Journal.

Education

  • J.D., Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University

  • Managing Editor, Arizona State Law Journal

  • Dean’s Recruitment Scholarship

  • B.A., Business (Law), Arizona State University

  • Summa Cum Laude

Bar Admissions

  • Arizona

  • District of Arizona

Blake Wilkie

Adam Puchi

Adam Puchi has worked for multiple law firms that represented commercial creditors, equipment financers, independent sales organizations, and payment processors. Most recently, he oversaw the performance of the entire portfolio at a highly respected fintech company that originated merchant cash advances and business loans. He collaborated across numerous departments to increase the efficiency of servicing the company’s portfolio resulting in a reduction of charge off rates, increase in recoveries, and minimized the impact debt settlement companies had on its portfolio.

During Adam’s tenure at the fintech company, he had to overcome the challenges that faced all lenders and funders in the industry: navigating through the COVID-19 pandemic without losing its securitization as some originators did. Through a team effort that included many of the company’s key personnel, the company was able to keep its securitization and its portfolio outperformed many of its competitors with respect to the historical 3-Month weighted average delinquency ratio. A detailed report can be found through Kroll Bond Rating Agency’s (KBRA) publication issued on March 12, 2021, entitled “U.S. Small Business Lending ABS Performance through COVID-19”. The publication further details how COVID-19 affected 8 KBRA rated small business lending asset backed securitizations and how each company compared to one another.

Prior to transitioning to the lending industry in-house, Adam was accepted by the California State Bar to study law pursuant to Rule 4.29 of the State Bar Rules.

Adam Puchi