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Morrison Foerster Announces Tammy C. Davies as Partner in Firm’s Finance Group

Morrison Foerster, a global law firm, is pleased to announce the arrival of Tammy C. Davies as a partner in the firm’s Finance Group, based in the New York office. Davies brings to the firm deep experience “representing alternative lenders and investors in complex credit… Read More

Maxwell Rich Exits Republic, Joins Global Law Firm of Morrison Foerster

Maxwell Rich, a longtime legal executive at Republic, has departed the investment crowdfunding platform to join the global law firm Morrison Foerster (MoFo). Rich has also been President and Chair of the Association of Online Investment Platforms (AOIP), a position he will now pass on… Read More

The Taxman Cometh: Tax Reform May Impact Cryptocurrency Trading

It is that time of year again. Tax time. The dreaded annual routine where you compile all of your state and federal tax forms into an envelope and shuffle it off to your accountant. Alternatively, you may use a tax software and do it yourself… Read More

Gibraltar: Does Statement on Initial Coin Offerings Include New Regulatory Framework?

  On September 22, 2017, the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission (GFSC) issued a Statement on Initial Coin Offerings (ICO).   With the GFSC Statement, Gibraltar joined a growing number of jurisdictions that have provided token sale guidance, including, among others, the United States, Canada,  Singapore,  Hong… Read More

Joshua Klayman Shares Her Perspective on Marco Santori’s White Paper on SAFTs

Marco Santori, Fintech Team Leader at the law firm of Cooley LLP, has published a white paper tackling the issue of “Simple Agreement for Future Tokens” or SAFTs – the widely used structure for Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs). Santori proposes a path toward a compliant framework… Read More

Comment on Recent Regulatory Moves by South Korea & Switzerland Regarding ICOs

Just about every week we have been hearing about regulators in one country or another curtailing Initial Coin Offerings or simply banning them outright. China, perhaps taking the most extreme action, simply banned cryptocurrency exchanges and ICOs effectively crushing the nascent market domestically. Last week… Read More

Legal Guidance on ICOs? Wall Street Blockchain Alliance will Publish Recommendations Soon

Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs), the hot crowdfunding market that uses tokenized securities based on cryptocurrencies, is still looking to gain its sea legs. While there have been multiple phenomenal ICOs, like the recent Filecoin home-run that raised over $200 million ($135 million in just one… Read More

ICOs & a Sustainable Global Token Sale Market: Joshua Klayman of MoFo Provides Answers

There is a lot going on in the cryptocurrency driven Initial Coin Offering market today. In recent weeks, national regulators have acknowledged the existence of tokenized funding rounds along with the fact that many are really securities and thus regulated. The US Securities and Exchange… Read More

When is an ICO a Security? Law Firm Morrison Foerster Responds

In the aftermath of the SEC statement on Initial Coin Offerings and their intent to crack down on issuers in breach of securities law we reached out to Morrison Foerster for commentary on the question as to when an ICO is in fact a security…. Read More

Omnibus Highway Bill “FAST Act” Slips in Changes to the JOBS Act of 2012

The so-called FAST Act or “Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act” was shuffled off to be signed by President Obama after the Senate approved the massive bill.  It was a piece of legislation that saw the likes of Senators Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and Marco Rubio, join… Read More

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