Nov 04, 2019 Shearman & Sterling and the Global Blockchain Business Council Convene Panel on Stablecoins By A&O Shearman Shearman & Sterling and the Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC) convened a panel on Monday to discuss the world’s most talked about...
Nov 01, 2019 Jay Baris Authors Chapter in Global Legal Insights: Blockchain & Cryptocurrency Regulation 2020 By A&O Shearman Partner Jay Baris (New York-Investment Funds) authored a chapter titled "The custody of digital assets – 2020" in the latest Global Legal...
Oct 31, 2019 Paxos Awarded No-Action Letter for Blockchain-Based Equity Securities Settlement Platform By A&O Shearman On October 28, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) awarded a no-action letter to Paxos Trust Company that will allow the...
Oct 22, 2019 Distilling U.S. Regulatory Environment and Market Access Considerations for Growing FinTechs By A&O Shearman The rise of global FinTech has brought markets together and enabled cross-border business formation and innovation, but local regulations...
Oct 21, 2019 SEC Order Freezes Alleged Unregistered Digital Token Offering By A&O Shearman Earlier this month, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) obtained a temporary restraining order freezing an alleged unregistered...
Sep 24, 2019 Celebrating the One-Year Anniversary of Shearman & Sterling’s FinTech Foundry By A&O Shearman It’s been a year since the launch of the FinTech Foundry, Shearman & Sterling’s program dedicated to supporting the FinTech-related...
Sep 09, 2019 Court Rejects CSBS Suit Over OCC FinTech Charter By A&O Shearman Last week, Judge Dabney Friedrich of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed a lawsuit brought by the Conference...
Aug 22, 2019 SEC Stays Active in the Digital Asset Enforcement Space, Delays Bitcoin ETF Decisions By A&O Shearman In the first three weeks of August, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) commenced or settled three enforcement actions related...
Aug 01, 2019 SEC Issues No-Action Letter Allowing Sale of Ethereum-Based Tokens By A&O Shearman In a letter dated July 25, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Division of Corporation Finance (Division) stated that it...
Jul 30, 2019 Where Is the Digital Asset Market Headed? By Donna Parisi Partner Donna Parisi (New York - Derivatives & Structured Products) recently sat down with Rebank podcast host Will Beeson to discuss the...
Jul 16, 2019 Considerations in Venture Capital and M&A Transactions in the AI Mobility Industry By A&O Shearman As part of the Global Legal Insights edition on AI, Machine Learning & Big Data, Partners Alan Bickerstaff (Austin – Emerging Growth),...
Jul 16, 2019 Top Challenges Around Regulating Artificial Intelligence By A&O Shearman As artificial intelligence continues to advance and evolve, learn what the top challenges are around regulating the technology in the...