First-of-its-kind team provides legal and strategic advice on crypto, capital, and commodities and derivatives marketplaces
WASHINGTON — Dec. 18, 2024 — BakerHostetler, a law firm widely recognized for its Digital Assets and Data Management practice, today launched a Digital and Innovative Markets team. This revolutionary legal marketplace offering is designed to seamlessly integrate traditional financial markets and the rapidly evolving digital markets by providing cohesive, forward-thinking legal and strategic advice on the digital, capital, and commodities and derivatives markets.
“For more than 10 years, our lawyers have been at the forefront of advising clients on blockchain and digital assets, navigating the complexities of innovative technologies. We have counseled clients across traditional financial markets for many decades, and we’ve found that, now more than ever, markets are increasingly enmeshed. Businesses are making the leap from traditional industries into the digital asset space, and similarly, crypto companies are deploying their technology in legacy markets,” said Teresa Goody Guillén, who serves as the team’s leader and is a former attorney with the Securities and Exchange Commission Office of the General Counsel. “Our team combines deep experience from Wall Street, Main Street and digital markets, and to better serve and future-proof our clients, we’ve formed the Digital and Innovative Markets team.”
With significant experience in the commodities and derivatives markets, capital markets, Web3, and fintech, the multidisciplinary Digital and Innovative Markets team provides comprehensive legal services, including counseling on regulatory, compliance and policy matters; conducting investigations; defending against enforcement actions; representing clients in litigation; and advising on business and transactional matters. Attorneys on this team have both the deep legal experience and the technological understanding to support clients as they continue to navigate rapidly evolving markets.
The new team includes lawyers recognized by the Chambers FinTech Legal Guide for blockchain and cryptocurrencies and data protection and cybersecurity, and it is part of BakerHostetler’s renowned DADM practice group, which has been named a BTI Litigation “Powerhouse” for four years running.
“We are keenly focused on innovation, and Teresa’s vision for the Digital and Innovative Markets team made sense immediately,” said Ted Kobus, chair of BakerHostetler’s DADM practice group. “Our lawyers in this space are highly regarded, and we were able to easily pivot to meet the needs of our clients by creating this first-of-its-kind offering.”
BakerHostetler serves a wide range of market and ecosystem participants, including traditional (centralized finance) and crypto (decentralized finance) exchanges, alternative trading systems, public and private companies, asset developers and issuers, financial institutions, broker-dealers, clearinghouses, futures commission merchants, custodians, wallet providers, payment processors, liquidity providers, asset managers, private equity firms, venture capitalists, hedge funds, exchange-traded funds, and trade associations.
The DADM practice group unites key service offerings that empower clients to drive innovation and growth in their industries and around the world. A globally recognized leader, the group has a roster that includes attorneys practicing in this space for more than two decades, former federal prosecutors, veteran in-house counsel and past government agency leaders. With eight top-tier rankings by Chambers USA and Legal 500, the DADM practice group is considered a go-to group for cybersecurity, privacy, advertising, data governance and emerging technologies. For more information on BakerHostetler, please visit bakerlaw.com. Connect with us on X, formerly known as Twitter, at @BakerHostetler or on LinkedIn at @BakerHostetler, @TedKobus or @TeresaGoody.
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