Comparative Guide
Blockchain & Crypto Assets
United States
10 November 2025
Joseph Hall, Boaz Goldwater & Justin Levine
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP advises clients across social media, finance, investment funds, and industrial manufacturing companies on sensitive transactions, litigation, and regulatory security matters. The practice works closely with cybersecurity firms to ensure clients are compliant with regulations. Washington-based Robert Cohen assists broker-dealers and investment advisers with data privacy issues when using vendor data to inform trading decisions. New York-based James Haldin focuses on complex data issues and emerging technology, and fellow New York lawyer Matthew Bacal helps clients with structuring, negotiating, and drafting complex commercial arrangements.
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Accolades
Client satisfaction: Lawyer & team quality
Client satisfaction: Billing & efficiency
Client satisfaction: Sector knowledge
Key clients
- Amdocs
- Amer Sports
- Antares Capital
- Arcadium Lithium
- Baron
- BentallGreenOak
- Braze
- Cornell Capital
- First Eagle
- First Reserve
- Galaxy Digital Holdings
- GHK Capital Partners
Work highlights
Representing Meta in administrative proceeding that seeks to substantially rewrite a court-approved 2020 Consent Order, which embodied the parties’ 2019 settlement and required Meta to establish and implement a comprehensive privacy program.
Assisted a global aerospace and defense company concerning cybersecurity disclosure, and obtained a termination notice without charges in an SEC investigation.
Representing Meta in its challenge to the Federal Trade Commission’s administrative proceeding to reopen and rewrite a court-approved 2020 consent order, which embodied the parties’ 2019 settlement and required Meta to establish and implement a comprehensive privacy program.
Practice head
Robert Cohen; James Haldin; Matthew Bacal