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.
Schedule a ConsultationTrusted by founders navigating digital assets, artificial intelligence, and financial innovation — recognized by Chambers, Lawdragon, and the Burton Awards.
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 Cyber Unit honors-program 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 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.
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
July 1, 2026
Does Your Agentic-Payments Startup Need a Money Transmitter License?
When an AI agent moves money on a user's behalf, the licensing question turns on one thing regulators have asked for decades: do you control the funds? If your platform holds, pools, or controls customer money, you are likely a money transmitter — federally and in most states — no matter how autonomous the agent is.
Read More →Client GuideJuly 1, 2026
Does Your AI Agent Need a Financial License? A Decision Guide
Whether an AI agent needs a financial license does not turn on the fact that it is AI. It turns on what the agent does with money or securities — and more than one regime can apply at once. An agent that executes securities trades answers to the SEC; one that trades futures, swaps, or leveraged retail crypto answers to the CFTC; one that moves customer money answers to FinCEN and the states. This is the decision guide that routes your agent to the right regulator — often more than one.
Read More →Thought LeadershipJuly 1, 2026
Who Is the BSA Customer When an AI Agent Sends Stablecoins?
The GENIUS Act made stablecoin issuers Bank Secrecy Act institutions, and AI agents are now sending stablecoins on their own. The customer-identification rules assume a person. Corporate law has answered the non-human-person question for two hundred years.
Read More →Ready to Navigate the Future of Finance?
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