Innovation in Compliance: Allison Lagosh on Proactive Compliance Planning for Regulatory Changes
#Risk New York Speaker Series – Bridging the Gap: Effective Risk Communication in Compliance with Rob Clark, Jr.
Unlocking Crypto's Future: Insights From Coinbase's John D'Agostino — The Crypto Exchange Podcast
Regulatory Ramblings: Episode 71 – Crypto Fault Lines: Stablecoins, Meme Coins & the Fight for Clarity PLUS: Sanctions, Shell Companies & Fragmented Global Trade
Daily Compliance News: June 10, 2025, The Ruinous Burdens Edition
LathamTECH in Focus: How Should Crypto Companies Be Thinking About New Laws?
The LathamTECH Podcast — Where Digital Assets Slot Into a Shifting Fintech Regulatory Landscape: Insights From the US, UK, and EU
Daily Compliance News: May 22, 2025, The Trump and Dump Edition
Daily Compliance News: May 9, 2025, The Bring Out Your Dead Pardon Edition
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: Private Civil Consumer Financial Services Litigation to Partially Fill CFPB Void - Part 2
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending April 26, 2025
Navigating the Future of Payment Stablecoins: Legislative Updates and Market Implications — Payments Pros – The Payments Law Podcast
Navigating the Future of Payment Stablecoins: Legislative Updates and Market Implications — The Crypto Exchange Podcast
Exploring the Administration's Regulatory Impact on Private Equity — PE Pathways Podcast
Daily Compliance News: April 21, 2025, The Tribute to Pope Francis Edition
CHPS Podcast Episode 2: Bitcoin in the Halls of Power
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending April 12, 2025
Daily Compliance News: April 10, 2025, The Dark Money Corruption Edition
Navigating 2025: Trends in OFAC and DOJ Enforcement for Digital Assets — The Crypto Exchange Podcast
Regulatory Ramblings: Episode 66 – The U.S. Strategic Reserve and the Emerging Multipolar Crypto World + Recent Developments in US Virtual Asset Regulation with Henri Arslanian and Andrew Fei
On July 1, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Division of Corporation Finance issued guidance outlining disclosure expectations for crypto asset exchange-traded products, including both spot and derivative-based...more
Lowenstein Crypto advises leading digital asset and cryptocurrency projects, exchanges, and trading firms. Our practice covers regulatory advice, transactions and structuring advice, investigations, and adversarial matters...more
Last March, I wrote: “Howey Livin’? Domestic Crypto Regulation in 2024.” As elegantly foreshadowed by the hilarious title, the article covered the strange crypto regulatory moment of spring 2024: Bitcoin has been packaged...more
The application of the securities laws to digital financial assets has been fraught for lawyers and their clients. After taking a hard line that many of these assets were securities under the federal securities laws, the...more
On October 21, 2024, the US Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") Division of Examinations ("Examination Division") announced its 2025 Examination Priorities ("Report"). Investment advisers and broker-dealers should...more
On October 13, California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) signed Assembly Bill 39 (Digital Financial Assets Law). This new law broadly empowers the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) to govern...more
On July 13, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York issued an important decision on a closely watched securities case surrounding crypto token classification. The primary question for the Court in...more
Following the recent closures of Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank, and Silvergate Bank and Credit Suisse’s takeover by Swiss-based rival UBS, ramifications for blockchain tech and crypto-based assets and deals are...more
With 2022 now fading into the background and 2023 underway, a review of some of the 2022 highlights in cryptocurrency provides an opportunity to look at the developments of the past year with a fresh perspective – and to...more
Scoring a victory for the Securities and Exchange Commission in its efforts to qualify digital tokens as securities, a New Hampshire federal court ruled this week that tokens sold by LBRY Inc., known as LBC, are securities...more
SEC Chair Gary Gensler appears to be readying the SEC for increasing oversight of cryptocurrency exchanges, the latest in a series of regulatory actions targeting the growing industry. In prepared remarks at PLI’s recent...more
The chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Gary Gensler, issued his starkest warning yet to those in the crypto industry issuing tokens, at the SEC Speaks event. Gensler stated his belief that of crypto...more
Today, there seems to be a constant stream of changing rules and regulations for companies to keep up with. This dynamic regulatory environment can be increasingly difficult for emerging companies to navigate, particularly...more
This is the ninth post in this year’s series examining important trends in white collar law and investigations. Our previous post discussed trends in SEC enforcement of ESG priorities. Up next: Looking at the Landscape of...more
On March 9, President Biden signed a highly anticipated executive order outlining his administration’s cryptocurrency policy. We have previously blogged about the Biden administration’s working group on stablecoins and the...more
The newly signed the bi-partisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (“IIJA”) includes new regulations aimed directly at cryptocurrency oversight. Unlike more traditional asset classes, cryptocurrencies are not governed...more
U.S. Developments - Legislation - Congress Members Reintroduce Bill to Define Digital Assets - U.S. Representative Tom Emmer (MN-06) re-introduced legislation aimed at defining how regulators should classify and...more
Last week, a Canada-based social media company was sued by the Securities and Exchange Commission for purportedly conducting an unregistered securities offering to United States persons in connection with an initial coin...more
Earlier this week, two senior officials at the Securities and Exchange Commission issued this statement elucidating a "framework for 'investment contract' analysis of digital assets". The Framework applies the tripartite test...more
U.S. Developments - Regulatory Updates - SEC’s Valerie Szczepanik Speaks at SXSW - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (“SEC”) Associate Director of the Division of Corporation Finance and Senior Advisor for...more
Below is a summary of some of the significant legal and regulatory actions that occurred over the past week. This alert is not intended to be a comprehensive list of all such developments, but rather a selection of...more
With the near unanimous passing of a bill that will explicitly recognize the right to trade stocks using a blockchain, Delaware is making a strong case for it being the blockchain-friendliest state. The Delaware Senate...more