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Practice Areas
Digital Assets & Blockchain
From custody architecture to tokenized securities to courtroom disputes, full-service counsel for digital asset businesses under one roof.
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Trial-tested litigation from a former judicial clerk and Big Law litigator. Complex commercial, shareholder, crypto, and appellate matters.
Learn More →Artificial Intelligence & Emerging Tech
Legal frameworks for AI-driven businesses, from regulatory compliance and data privacy to intellectual property protection.
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SEC insider experience meets litigation firepower. Investigation defense, internal investigations, and securities litigation.
Learn More →Fintech & Payments
Navigate federal and state compliance for payment processors, neobanks, and financial technology platforms.
Learn More →Corporate & Transactions
End-to-end corporate counsel from formation through fundraising and M&A. Support for startup governance and capital raises.
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Litigation Firepower.
Chanté Eliaszadeh spent five years at the world’s largest law firms—including White & Case and Dechert—after an SEC internship that taught her how regulators actually think. She has represented creditors in the FTX, Genesis, and Celsius bankruptcies, structured compliant token offerings, and built regulatory frameworks for digital asset companies. Her clients get an attorney who has been on both sides of the regulatory table.
Brandon Orewyler clerked for three years in the busiest complex litigation court in California, then litigated at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett before building a practice as lead counsel. He has first-chaired trials, argued appeals, and managed disputes involving millions of documents. His clients get a litigator who has written the rulings and tried the cases.
Latest Insights
April 21, 2026
You Cannot Delete What You Do Not Know the Agent Stored: The Memory Tool's Privacy Problem
Anthropic's Memory tool lets the agent decide what to store. A former SEC attorney explains why that creates a novel data-mapping problem under CCPA and GDPR -- and provides the remediation architecture deployers need before the first deletion request arrives.
Read More →Thought LeadershipApril 17, 2026
What Claude Managed Agents Means for Your Compliance Stack: A KYA Framework Analysis
Anthropic's Managed Agents runtime shipped on April 8. A former SEC attorney maps each product feature to the KYA Five Pillars governance framework -- and identifies the compliance gaps deployers must close before their first production session.
Read More →Thought LeadershipApril 6, 2026
When the SEC Won't Act: Private Litigation Options for Crypto Investors
The SEC dropped 12+ crypto cases in 2025. Private litigation is now the primary accountability tool. Here's the legal toolkit for investors.
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