Mar 21, 2023 Em Conversa: Accelerating LatAm Fintech With Shearman & Sterling By Carmelo Gordian Em Conversa looks to uncover the secrets in Latin America (LatAm) that have caused the fintech market to boom, from being worth less than...
Mar 15, 2023 Silicon Valley Bank And Signature Bank: What You Need To Know On Pre-closure Contractual Obligations By A&O Shearman The recent closures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank—the second and third largest bank failures in U.S. history—have raised a...
Feb 24, 2023 Liquidity Risks from Crypto-Related Deposits By A&O Shearman Recent pronouncements, speeches and guidance issued by the U.S. banking agencies have made their stance on cryptocurrency clear: digital...
Feb 21, 2023 Crypto Bankruptcies Leave Taxpayers in Limbo in Filing Season By A&O Shearman Investors who lost money on now-bankrupt crypto exchanges are stuck in limbo this filing season, tax practitioners say, unable to claim...
Feb 14, 2023 UK Proposals for Cryptoasset Regulation By Thomas Donegan Barney Reynolds Wilf Odgers Elias Allahyari Nicholas Ormondroyd Chloe Barrowman Sandy Collins +4 more... Show less The U.K. government has published its much-anticipated proposals for regulating the cryptoasset industry. These proposals, currently in...
Dec 14, 2022 Show me the Cryptocurrency: English High Court Grants Novel Information Orders Against Crypto Exchanges By Jonathan Swil Matthew Skinner Barney Reynolds Chris Collins +1 more... Show less The High Court has once again grappled with novel issues raised by disputes concerning cryptoassets, this time in the context of an...
Dec 13, 2022 Mark Shapiro discusses FTX crypto and his Lehman experience in Bloomberg Podcast By A&O Shearman Mark Shapiro, partner at Shearman & Sterling and Chairman of the firm’s Financial Restructuring & Insolvency group was featured in a...
Dec 06, 2022 CFTC Delivers Notice to Ooki Via Chat Box: Important Legal Questions for DAOs By Donna Parisi Daniel Laguardia The United States District Court for the Northern District of California (the “Court”) recently held that a decentralized autonomous...
Dec 02, 2022 Puerto Rico-chartered crypto bank expects to open Fed master account By A&O Shearman San Juan, Puerto Rico-based FV Bank International Inc. is on track to open a master account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to...
Nov 28, 2022 FTX's demise part 4: Bankruptcy experts weigh in on next steps for FTX By Mark Shapiro In the fourth installment of The Scoop’s continued coverage of FTX's demise, host Frank Chaparro examines the legal underpinnings of...
Nov 17, 2022 Chimeras: what happens when novel intangible assets meet ancient, abstract legal frameworks in insolvency By Sara Coelho With the tumultuous events of the last few days surrounding crypto-exchanges, the nature and status of cryptoassets may come to be tested...
Nov 03, 2022 Crypto and Financial Stability Risks By Donna Parisi Jennifer Morton Geoffrey Goldman This article relates to Shearman & Sterling's upcoming inaugural Digital Finance Summit on November 15-16. Learn more about the Summit....