One Firm. Both Sides.
Big Law-trained counsel for crypto, AI, and fintech founders. We structure your deals, secure your licenses, advise your operations, and fight your disputes—across the full company lifecycle. Boutique direct. AI-native.
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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.
Learn More →Litigation & Disputes
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.
Learn More →Securities Enforcement & Investigations
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.
Learn More →Big Law Pedigree.
AI-Native Practice.
Chanté Eliaszadeh learned crypto regulation from inside the SEC, then spent five years at White & Case and Dechert—structuring token offerings, closing Regulation D placements, and representing creditors in the FTX, Genesis, and Celsius bankruptcies. 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.
Built for the work that breaks other small firms.
Most law firms talk about AI. Astraea Counsel runs on it.
We built our practice from the ground up around a custom suite of AI-native tools—citation verification pipelines, multi-agent research and drafting workflows, document automation, matter intelligence—that handle the leverage work that traditionally required associate teams. The infrastructure was built in-house, battle-tested across active matters, and engineered around a hard-won instinct for where AI force multipliers actually carry weight (and where they don't).
The result is what a two-attorney firm couldn't otherwise be. Discovery management in cases involving millions of documents. Briefs turned around in hours instead of days. Citations verified against primary sources before they land in a filing. The AI doesn't replace judgment—it removes the constraints that limit how much judgment we can deliver. For clients, that's how Big Law caliber work product lands at boutique rates.
Latest Insights
April 12, 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 12, 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 12, 2026
Agents with Wallets, Agents in Vaults: A KYA Analysis of Claude Managed Agents for Digital Assets and Regulated Industries
Claude Managed Agents' architecture -- persistent sessions, MCP connectors, bash execution, cloud-hosted containers -- creates regulatory triggers self-hosted agents don't face. A former SEC attorney maps the compliance gaps with the KYA Five Pillars framework.
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