Regulatory counsel and trial lawyers for crypto, fintech, and AI companies.
We get companies licensed, financed, and compliant, and we try the case when a dispute reaches court. Two principals do all of it themselves: Chanté Eliaszadeh, formerly of White & Case and Dechert, and Brandon Orewyler, formerly of Simpson Thacher.
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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Two lawyers do the work.
You hire them directly.
Chanté Eliaszadeh worked in the SEC's Cyber Unit as a summer honors intern, then spent five years at Dechert and White & Case. She structured tokenized securities, closed Regulation D placements, and represented the creditors' committees in the Celsius and Genesis bankruptcies. Brandon Orewyler spent two and a half years as a law clerk in Los Angeles Superior Court's Complex Division, drafting proposed orders on the kinds of motions he now files. He then litigated at Simpson Thacher, where he managed discovery on matters with millions of documents, first-chaired a trial in the Delaware Court of Chancery, and argued in the Ninth Circuit.
The firm that structures your token sale or license is the firm that defends it. When a regulator or a plaintiff tests the structure, the lawyer trying the case works beside the lawyer who built it. We have no associates. Software we built in-house does the volume work that associate teams do elsewhere, and a principal reads every line before it leaves. Watch Brandon's Ninth Circuit argument →
- 01Formerly of White & Case, Dechert, and Simpson Thacher
- 02Formation, fundraising, licensing, advisory work, and litigation in one firm
- 03The lawyer you call is the lawyer who drafts and appears
- 04Every citation checked against its source before filing
How a filing gets made here.
Every filing passes through six steps, 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 software does the volume. The judgment is the lawyer's.
› 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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