News & Analysis as of

Smart Contracts Investors

WilmerHale

Binance Ruling Spotlights Muddled Post-Morrison Landscape

WilmerHale on

The March decision in Williams v. Binance from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit marks the latest chapter in the judiciary's struggle to apply the U.S. Supreme Court's 2010 decision in Morrison v. National...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

DeFi Crypto Platform Not Liable for Scam Tokens

Latham & Watkins LLP on

A federal court’s dismissal of claims against a decentralized cryptocurrency platform and its investors for the actions of scam token issuers is a case of first impression with wider significance. On August 29, 2023, the...more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

Parting the Crypto Sea: Ripple’s XRP Ruled to be a Security When Sold to Private Investors, But Not When Sold on an Exchange

Farrell Fritz, P.C. on

Judge Analisa Torres’ greatly anticipated Order in the SEC’s lawsuit against Ripple is a split decision.  The Order basically finds that Ripple’s digital token XRP is a security when sold privately to individuals and...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Portfolio Investments in Web3: A Discussion with Collider Founder Adam Benayoun

In this episode of “Crypto Innovators,” Adam Benayoun talks about his journey from entrepreneur to angel investor to founding partner of Collider Ventures, which invests in Web3 focused companies across such sectors as...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Crypto Crackdown: SEC Busts “Textbook” Digital Ponzi Scheme

In the 1920s, a new form of investment fraud roared into the markets with the advent of the Ponzi scheme. Last week, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a complaint captioned SEC v. Okhotnikov et al. in the...more

Dechert LLP

The UK Investment Manager Exemption and Cryptoassets – Consultation Document

Dechert LLP on

As part of wider efforts to make Britain a global hub for cryptoassets technology and investment, on 4 April 2022 the government publicly committed to consult on extending the scope of the UK Investment Manager Exemption (the...more

Foster Garvey PC

With Cryptocurrencies and NFTs Continuing to Boom, Financial Regulators Are Clamping Down

Foster Garvey PC on

- With crypto investment frauds on the rise, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sent a warning to investors and published an investor alert listing out possible signs of a scam. Along similar lines, a Bloomberg...more

Goodwin

SEC Settles First-Of-Its-Kind $13m DeFi Tech Action

Goodwin on

SEC Settles First-Of-Its-Kind $13m DeFi Tech Action; NASDAQ Board Diversity Rules Challenged in Fifth Circuit; Delaware Court of Chancery Declines to Enforce Contractual Limitations on Liability to Bar Contractual Fraud...more

BakerHostetler

[Podcast] Everything You Need to Know About NFTs in 10 Minutes or Less

BakerHostetler on

Rob Musiala, a Counsel in the Digital Assets and Data Management group and the co-leader of our Blockchain Technologies and Digital Currencies team, breaks down everything you need to know about NFTs, all in 10 minutes or...more

Foster Garvey PC

Sports & Entertainment Spotlight: The Dawn of the NIL Era in College Sports

Foster Garvey PC on

Well, today is the big day. If you’re reading this week’s installment of the Spotlight, it means that you survived the long and arduous journey of the name, image and likeness (NIL) era in college sports. Indeed, with the...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

[Webinar] Unpacking the NFT Boom and Legal Projections for Further Tokenization Developments in Entertainment - May 12th, 4:00 pm...

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have been trending since the start of the year, and more companies and artists are getting involved with the latest blockchain innovation. Join us to dive deeper than the headlines as our presenters...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Landmark Legal Statement on Cryptoassets and Smart Contracts

On November 18, 2019, the U.K. Jurisdiction Taskforce (UKJT), one of six taskforces established by the LawTech Delivery Panel (set up by the U.K. government, the judiciary and the Law Society to promote the use of technology...more

White & Case LLP

Rise of digital finance: Tokenising mining & metals assets - Can tokenised mining royalties and metal streams unlock a new...

White & Case LLP on

Rapid advances in blockchain technology are reinventing the way companies operate and deliver products and services to their clients. These changes are particularly visible in the mining & metals industry, a sector that has...more

A&O Shearman

European Parliament Adopts Resolution on Distributed Ledger Technologies

A&O Shearman on

The European Parliament has adopted a non-legislative resolution entitled "distributed ledger technologies and blockchains: building trust with disintermediation." Of particular relevance to the financial services sector, the...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs): The Current State of Play

The ICO boom in 2017 brings with it questions of jurisdiction and compliance, and a need for further guidance - The benefits of ICOs in raising capital, as well as in providing a marketing push for a new business model,...more

15 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 1

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide