Commercial and Entertainment Litigator Named Among California’s Top 40 Under 40
Partner Nima Mohebbi honored by the Daily Journal as among the best legal talent in the Golden State.
Latham’s digital assets and Web3 team works at the leading edge of blockchain-enabled innovation, often setting legal and regulatory precedents that govern new assets and industries.
We help innovators and investors bring to market new digital assets, cryptocurrencies, non-fungible tokens (NFTs), crypto derivatives and structured products, market infrastructure solutions, and blockchain-based protocols and organizations. We advise clients across the digital asset and Web3 ecosystem, including venture capital and investment funds, tech companies and protocol developers, exchanges and marketplaces, entertainment, sports, and media organizations, ventures developing decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), cryptocurrency miners, as well as institutional infrastructure providers and financial institutions.
Latham combines a sophisticated understanding of the technology underlying digital assets and Web3 with a commercial sensibility and ahead-of-the-curve insight into the regulatory direction of travel. We draw on the team’s vast knowledge and experience to advise on:
Our digital asset-focused financial regulatory team often engages with regulatory bodies worldwide, including the SEC, CFTC, FCA, BaFin, HKMA, and MAS, to advise and advocate for clients who are building and investing in digital assets and Web3 solutions. We also routinely represent clients facing government investigations and civil disputes relating to digital asset and cryptocurrency ventures and transactions.
When our clients face government scrutiny related to digital assets, we marshal a team of experienced litigators that includes former enforcement supervisors from major US and UK agencies. Our team regularly advises clients on their most significant digital asset enforcement and litigation matters, including regulatory compliance for token launches and distributions, centralized and decentralized trading platforms, insider trading, market manipulation, and money laundering and sanctions compliance.
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Latham and a16z Crypto help innovators, investors, legal practitioners, and policy-makers to better understand and define decentralization.
Partner Nima Mohebbi honored by the Daily Journal as among the best legal talent in the Golden State.
Latham team recognized for securing dismissal with prejudice for a16z in significant DeFi crypto case.
Firm shortlisted for Litigation Department of the Year and recognized for an innovative client collaboration and for its well-being and diversity initiatives.