Yvette Valdez co-chairs the Global Digital Assets & Web3 Practice, as well as the Derivatives, Equities & Structured Products Practice.
Yvette draws on more than two decades of derivatives regulatory and transactional experience to inform her cutting-edge advice to clients on digital assets, Web3, and bespoke financial regulatory matters. She advises a broad spectrum of clients, from leading global investment banks and broker-dealers to market makers across financial markets (including the Web3 and digital asset ecosystem). She helps clients navigate a range of high-stakes matters involving:
Yvette helps clients mitigate the unique risks inherent in digital assets and innovative products and structures commodities and derivatives value transfers accordingly, resulting in an emerging set of market standards against a regulatory backdrop that includes:
On the transactional front, she represents financial institutions in bespoke derivatives transactions, including:
As a thought leader, Yvette co-led the development of Latham’s US Crypto Policy Tracker. She speaks and writes frequently on issues at the intersection of financial markets and digital assets, including for the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA), the Futures Industry Association (FIA), DC Fintech Week, and the New York City Bar Association’s Crypto Institute.
Yvette’s representative experience includes advising:
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Stephen Wink, Global Co-Chair of the Fintech Industry Group, and Yvette Valdez, Global Co-Chair of the Digital Assets & Web3 Practice, discuss the development of Latham’s US Crypto Policy Tracker, which helps innovators, investors, and market participants stay updated with legislative and regulatory developments in the rapidly evolving blockchain, cryptocurrency, and digital asset landscape.
Firm’s Capital Markets Practice once again earns top legal advisor league table rankings across debt and equity products and industries globally in Bloomberg, Dealogic, Deal Point Data, and LSEG.