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Legal Issues With Blockchains, Cryptocurrency Transactions, and Risks of Loss: Understand Your Contract

Houston Harbaugh, P.C. on 8/23/2024

The widespread and debilitating impacts of the recent faulty Crowdstrike® software update has caused businesses to evaluate processes and examine potential claims and defenses related to the deleterious commercial impacts of...more

Foley Automotive Update - June 2024

Foley & Lardner LLP on 6/12/2024

Analysis by Julie Dautermann, Competitive Intelligence Analyst This update helps automotive suppliers inform their legal and operational decisions to help address challenges and opportunities. Key Developments - Foley &...more

Investing in or Acquiring a Digital Assets Business? Watch Where You Step – Maximizing Value and Managing Risk in Digital Assets...

Mayer Brown on 5/23/2024

As applications and use cases for digital assets and their blockchain infrastructure grow and become more sophisticated, investments and valuations for businesses in these areas have grown as well. The growing number of...more

Digital Transformation Notes | May 2024

Hogan Lovells on 5/3/2024

April saw further regulatory and policy developments across AI and digital assets. The continuously high level of activity across so many legislators is fully in line with the findings of the newly published AI Index Report...more

The Future of Money With Zebec Network

Foley & Lardner LLP on 4/9/2024

Nikhil Pradhan (Senior Counsel, Boston) recently joined Zebec Networks’ Future of Money podcast to explore the intersection of artificial intelligence and the blockchain ecosystem with Parth Shah. The below episode transcript...more

Introduction: What is Supply Chain Management?

Foley & Lardner LLP on 3/14/2024

Share on Twitter Print Share by Email Share Back to top In recent years, viral videos featuring a surprising topic have racked up millions of views on social media. Not videos of a celebrity doing something outrageous, a...more

Weekly Blockchain Blog - February 2024

BakerHostetler on 2/20/2024

Crypto Firms Make Acquisitions, Integrate Products; New Crypto Index Launches - According to a recent press release, a major U.S. fintech company has announced an agreement to acquire a major digital asset custody provider....more

Banks Announce Stablecoin and Custody Initiatives; IRS CI Report Addresses Crypto; DOJ Targets Unlicensed Exchange; New Data...

BakerHostetler on 12/11/2023

Major Banks and Technology Firms Launch Stablecoin and Custody Products - According to recent reports, a major European bank has launched its own stablecoin, “becoming the first big bank to offer digital tokens tracking...more

Latham Chairs AI Component of Global Standards Mapping Initiative

Latham & Watkins LLP on 12/6/2023

The initiative covers a wide array of insights and guidance for the blockchain ecosystem, while a Latham-led working group explores the convergence of blockchain and AI. ...more

International Counter Ransomware Initiative Pledges to Halt Government Ransom Payments, but with Exceptions

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on 11/22/2023

In the United States, the CRI pledge would only limit payments by the federal government, not state and local governments nor private-sector entities. The International Counter Ransomware Initiative (CRI) convened in...more

Top 5 SEC Developments (October 2023)

Morrison & Foerster LLP on 11/20/2023

Each month, we publish a roundup of the most important SEC enforcement developments for busy in-house lawyers and compliance professionals. This month we examine: • Fraud and internal control failure charges against...more

How HR Technology Drives Organizational Success

Mitratech Holdings, Inc on 11/14/2023

Ask any long-time HR professional what the most significant change of the last few years has been, and they’ll all tell you the same things: the use of HR technology and the investment in human capital. The two are...more

Recommendations for Managing Cybersecurity Threats in the Manufacturing Sector

Foley & Lardner LLP on 9/25/2023

In the hyper-connected era of smart manufacturing, accelerated by “Industry 4.0,” the manufacturing sector is undergoing a digital revolution. By leveraging technologies such as advanced automation, artificial intelligence,...more

Global Legal Insights Fintech 2023: Ireland

Walkers on 9/22/2023

Partners Niall Esler and Shane Martin, along with senior associate Conor Daly and trainee solicitor Coleen Wegmann, have authored the Ireland chapter for Global Legal Insights Fintech 2023. They provide an up-to-date summary...more

Project W: Web 2.5 – The Companies That Are Using the Blockchain To Innovate and Solve Big Problems

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 8/28/2023

Saying the word "crypto" will get a visceral reaction in many circles, and if you say you still believe in the future of crypto, you have a high likelihood of being blacklisted. I get it. It has been a tumultuous 16...more

[Webinar] Bulls, Bears, and Blockchain - Special Edition: Former SEC Speaks - July 17th, 2:00 pm ET

BakerHostetler on 7/12/2023

Join BakerHostetler for our series of Fireside Chats about the latest developments impacting the capital markets and their participants, and the blockchain industry....more

A common purpose – the DAO opportunity for Guernsey trustees

Walkers on 6/19/2023

It may not be "conventional" private client work, but the rapidly evolving nature of the digital economy has created exciting opportunities for Guernsey trustees and trusts professionals, with Guernsey purpose trusts...more

Crypto trading platform reaches $1.2 million settlement to resolve alleged compliance failures

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 5/12/2023

On May 1, NYDFS issued a consent order against a cryptocurrency trading platform for engaging in alleged violations of the state’s cybersecurity regulation (23 NYCRR Part 500)...more

Emerging Issues Affecting Blockchain and Cryptocurrency

Epstein Becker & Green on 4/12/2023

Last week, blockchain analysis firm, Chainalysis, held its annual conference, Links 2023, in New York City, where private and public sector leaders met to discuss emerging issues impacting the blockchain, cryptocurrency, and...more

The Breaches and Threat Actors that Defined 2022

Ankura on 3/22/2023

In 2022, threat actors and hacker groups made their mark on the digital world by causing unprecedented data breaches that left organizations of all sizes and sectors vulnerable. Even with improved cybersecurity measures in...more

NYDFS to Crypto Custodians Proceed with Caution

Morgan Lewis - All Things FinReg on 2/10/2023

In the depth of a crypto winter, the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) issued guidance (the Guidance) on custodial standards for those with a BitLicense or that are registered as New York state limited...more

Autonomous Akin Update - January 2023

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 1/23/2023

Autonomous Akin brings you the latest news and developments regarding autonomous systems and advanced mobility so that you can keep a pulse on what is happening in government and industry that is impactful for your business....more

Metaverse Primer

Shipkevich PLLC on 1/5/2023

The term “metaverse” first appeared in 1992 as an abstract concept in Neal Stephenson’s dystopian novel Snow Crash. Two decades later, the Metaverse has since evolved from a mere idea to a figment of everyday reality, as it...more

Is the legal profession making the most of these new opportunities?

Ankura on 11/9/2022

Blockchain and other distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) underpinning crytpoassets are being adopted across the business world for a variety of purposes. In the finance sector, DLT is being used to create decentralized...more

Workplace Law Forecast 2023 - Legal predictions to help you prepare for the coming year in workplace law

Fisher Phillips on 11/1/2022

It’s never easy to make accurate predictions about what we might expect to see in the workplace in the coming year. After all: - At the start of 2020, no one could have predicted COVID-19. - None of us had heard the phrase...more

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