NEW
YORK, May 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP announced
today that leading "crypto native" lawyers
Lewis Rinaudo Cohen, Gregory Strong, and Sarah W. Chen have joined the firm as partners
in Cahill's globally recognized Digital Assets and Emerging
Technology, or "CahillNXT" practice. The CahillNXT practice
will be co-chaired by Cahill partners Samson "Sam" Enzer (who
founded Cahill's cryptocurrency and fintech practice
in 2021) and Lewis Cohen. The
arrival of Mr. Cohen, Mr. Strong and Ms. Chen will include the
opening of a Cahill office in Delaware led by Mr. Strong, a former Deputy
Attorney General in the Delaware Department of Justice, given
the state's strategic importance to clients in the digital assets
sector and across Cahill's financial services-focused
practices.
For over a century, Cahill has been recognized for innovation
and excellence in helping traditional financial institutions
resolve their thorniest legal and business challenges. Through its
CahillNXT practice, the firm is now at the forefront of guiding the
next generation of entrepreneurs and businesses in the burgeoning
digital assets sector (sometimes known as "Web3") through the maze
of opportunities and risks on the cutting edge of the intersection
of digital assets, emerging technology, and finance. The combined
practice will provide corporate governance, capital markets,
mergers and acquisitions, regulatory compliance, and
litigation advice, from start-up formation, product structuring,
fundraising, licensing, intellectual property, dealmaking and due
diligence, to handling clients' internal investigations, regulatory
compliance and enforcement matters, and
bet-the-company civil and criminal litigation.
Mr. Cohen, Mr. Strong, and Ms. Chen are true crypto
natives, having long focused their practice on the adoption and use
of blockchain technology and tokenization across a wide
range of market-leading projects, along the way handling
general corporate matters, venture financing, securities law
compliance, and financial regulatory matters. Their clients have
included some of the world's leading blockchain development
companies, foundations, digital asset gaming platforms, trading
firms, digital wallet-service providers, blockchain infrastructure
providers, venture capital firms, and traditional financial
institutions.
"Lewis is a trailblazer and thought leader, having co-founded
one of the very first law firms focusing on clients engaging
with the digital asset space. Nearly six years ago, Lewis
recognized the potential for this community to create new and
groundbreaking commercial and economic models. Lewis and his
colleagues built a leading Web3-focused legal brand
through a singular focus on the needs of clients working in the
blockchain space, while remaining true to the sector's open-source
and community-oriented ethos," said Sam
Enzer, Co-Chair of the CahillNXT practice. "By joining
forces as CahillNXT, our combined team has the capacity to handle
the most significant and complex legal and business challenges that
the industry faces, from helping our clients structure, develop,
and launch projects that involve the use of crypto
assets, to defending them in civil and criminal litigation or
regulatory enforcement matters."
"In three short years, Cahill's practice in this space has grown
from nascent to top-tier," said Herb
Washer, Chair of Cahill's Executive Committee. "Last year,
we unveiled a long-term plan to further diversify and grow Cahill,
focusing on our most successful and profitable practices. With the
addition of this remarkable team, our plan is right on schedule,
reinforcing Cahill as the premier destination for both traditional
financial institutions and emerging companies across the
ever-evolving digital assets sector."
"For more than a century, Cahill has been a leader in providing
counsel to the financial services industry. Then, in the
blink of an eye, Sam and Cahill built a remarkable and
industry-leading digital asset practice," said Lewis Cohen, Co-Chair of the CahillNXT practice.
"My colleagues and I couldn't be happier to join this team
launched by Sam, who successfully led some of the government's
earliest, groundbreaking cases in this field as a federal
prosecutor in the Southern District of New York."
Prior to joining Cahill in 2021, Mr. Enzer served for eight
years as a federal prosecutor for the Department of Justice in
the United States Attorney's
Office for the Southern District of New
York (SDNY), where he rose to become a senior member of the
SDNY Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force and
spearheaded multiple groundbreaking cryptocurrency
enforcement matters. He has been described as "one of the leading
cryptocurrency enforcement attorneys to come out of
government service in recent years" by The National Law
Journal and as the "SDNY Crypto Ace" by
Law360.
Mr. Cohen, Mr. Strong and Ms. Chen were authors of a
first-of-its-kind 2022 study of crypto assets
analyzing why secondary market crypto asset
transactions are not "securities" subject to the Securities
Exchange Commission's enforcement jurisdiction. This seminal
180-page "open source" work, made available for free to market
participants, regulators and others in the industry, summarizes all
266 appellate cases to have applied the Supreme Court's
"Howey test" since 1946 and guides many industry players as
they navigate the application of U.S. securities laws and rules to
new, developing asset classes. This three-partner team joining
Cahill will be augmented by a highly experienced coder and
developer able to help clients bridge the gap between code and
law.
Full biographies of the new CahillNXT partners can be found
here:
Lewis Rinaudo Cohen
Gregory
Strong
Sarah W.
Chen
About Cahill Gordon &
Reindel LLP
Cahill is among the most successful law firms in the world.
With a history of legal innovation dating back to the firm's
founding in 1919, Cahill is trusted by market-leading financial
institutions, companies and their boards to manage significant
corporate transactions, litigation and regulatory matters.
Based in New York, Cahill
also has offices in London and
Washington, D.C.
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