One Firm. Both Sides.
Founded by lawyers from Simpson Thacher, White & Case, and Dechert. We litigate high-stakes business disputes—from the Delaware Court of Chancery to the Ninth Circuit—and counsel digital-asset, fintech, and AI companies through the regulation that governs them.
Counsel to companies in digital assets, fintech, and AI — recognized by Chambers, Lawdragon, and Best Lawyers, honored with the 2024 Burton Award for distinguished legal writing, and published in Law360 on California's digital-asset licensing regime.
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Proven in Court
Trial and appellate results — and insider court experience — from the forums where high-stakes business disputes are decided.
Each result described was dependent on the facts of that case, and the results will differ if based on different facts.
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Global-Firm Training.
Direct Principal Access.
Chanté Eliaszadeh learned crypto regulation as a summer honors intern in the SEC's Cyber Unit, then spent five years at White & Case and Dechert—structuring token offerings, closing Regulation D placements, and representing creditors in the Genesis and Celsius bankruptcies and a buyer and creditor in FTX. Brandon Orewyler clerked three years in California’s busiest complex litigation court, litigated at Simpson Thacher, and built a practice as lead counsel—first-chair trial work, appellate argument, and discovery in matters with millions of documents.
Astraea Counsel pairs that training with something most Big Law alumni never build: custom AI-native practice infrastructure—research, drafting, document review, citation verification, matter intelligence—that handles work that traditionally required associate teams. The result is full-lifecycle counsel for emerging companies: entity formation, fundraising, regulatory licensing, ongoing advisory, and full-suite litigation when disputes hit court.
- 01Trained at White & Case, Dechert, and Simpson Thacher
- 02Custom AI-native infrastructure built in-house—research, drafting, and discovery at scale
- 03Full-lifecycle counsel: formation, fundraising, licensing, advisory, and litigation
- 04Direct principal access on every matter—no associate buffers, no conflicts delays
Built for the work that breaks other small firms.
Most law firms talk about AI. Ours is a pipeline every filing passes through, in this order.
- 01 Research
Several research agents read the case law in parallel and map every authority for us and against us before a word is drafted.
› parallel readers · the map shows holdings, not just citations - 02 Draft
The draft is built from the record itself, one section at a time, so the brief cites what the evidence says. Hours, not days.
› one section at a time · the record is the source - 03 Cite-check
Every citation is extracted and paired with the proposition it carries.
› one pass maps every cite · a second reads each authority against its claim - 04 Verify
Each quote and holding is read against the primary source before it lands in a filing.
› read at the primary source · never from a summary - 05 Review
A founding attorney reads every line. The AI removes constraints; it never replaces judgment.
› an adversarial pass argues against the draft · then the attorney reads - 06 File
Filed by the lawyer who did the work, with no layers between you and them.
› a checklist the lawyer clears before filing · the court's confirmation read after
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