If a gift-card business doesn’t seem like a hotbed for complex legal challenges, consider that the enterprise marries aspects of credit cards, banking and money transfer. For Blackhawk Network Inc. GC David Durant, that means navigating an ever intensifying maze of state and federal regulations. Durant, who is also vice mayor for the city of Pleasant Hill, joined Safeway Inc. in the late 1990s and saw Blackhawk through its spinoff last year.

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