The team at Brown Rudnick LLP has experience in assisting its portfolio of clients, the list of which includes start-ups, multinational companies, and high-net-worth individuals in complex blockchain, crypto, and fintech-related matters of significant value. Its workload includes advising on corporate transactions and regulatory and compliance issues relating to financial services, digital commerce, crypto, NFTs, and blockchain. Stephen Palley leads the team from the firm’s Washington DC office, and is experienced in assisting tech and media start-ups, in particular, in securities and financial services cases. Boston and Hartford-based Kyle Dorso is also a name to note.
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Key clients
- Atomic Wallet
- BlockFi: Wind-Down Debtors
- Mark Cuban and Dallas Basketball Limited, d/b/a Dallas Mavericks
- Fahrenheit / Hut 8 Corp
- Evertas Insurance
- Bloom Protocol
- Morgan Creek Digital Fund
- Receivers of Hector DAO
- Baton Corporation, D/B/A Pump.Fun
Work highlights
Advised the receivers of Hector DAO in achieving the first Chapter 15 recognition of a foreign main proceeding in which the debtor was a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO), a community-led entity owned by its members on an open-source blockchain.
Assisted Atomic Wallet in winning the dismissal of a class action lawsuit alleging that the cryptocurrency wallet company was liable for hackers stealing $100 million worth of digital currency from users’ accounts.
Assisting Pump dot fun in ongoing representation of memecoin platform Pump dot fun in connection with securities class actions filed in the Southern District of New York.
Practice head
Stephen Palley
Other key lawyers
Kyle Dorso