The 2018 iteration of Yahoo! Finance’s All Markets Summit, taking place on Tuesday, February 7, 2018, will focus solely on cryptocurrency. From Bitcoin and blockchain to ICOs, in conjunction with CoinDesk, Yahoo! Finance will lead a series of conversations with CEOs, engineers, policy makers and legal experts on the growing…
Part of their “View From the Top” series, the MIT Club of Northern California will host a night of networking and an informative panel discussion titled “Blockchain, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency and ICOs” on Wednesday, December 6, 2017 at the Intercontinental San Francisco. Panel discussion topics include: what is a cryptocurrency and…
Kelsey Lemaster, Partner in Goodwin’s Tax and Digital Currency + Blockchain Technology groups, will be a featured speaker at Consensus: Invest 2017, taking place on Tuesday, November 28th at the New York Marriott Marquis. CoinDesk is hosting what it’s billed as the “World’s first digital asset investor outlook event.” At the…
Digital Currency + Blockchain Perspectives has been selected to compete in The Expert Institute’s Best Legal Blog Competition. From a field of hundreds of potential nominees, Digital Currency + Blockchain Perspectives has received enough nominations to join the one of the largest competitions for legal blog writing online today. Now…
Goodwin is a proud sponsor of BlockCon 2017, taking place October 10-11, 2017 in Santa Monica, CA. Grant Fondo, Chair of Goodwin’s Digital Currency + Blockchain Technology practice, will moderate a panel on Wednesday, October 11th that includes 2 of the firm’s ICO clients, Scott Morgan of Nanome/Matryx and George…
Kelsey Lemaster, a partner in Goodwin’s tax practice, will be a featured speaker at the CoinAlts Fund Symposium on Thursday, September 14 in San Francisco. Lemaster – whose practice is focused on corporate mergers and acquisitions, fund formations, private equity and venture capital investment structuring, and joint venture/other partnership transactions…
Goodwin has recently joined the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA) Legal Industry Working Group alongside 13 other leading law firms and academic institutions, bringing together top global law firms and leading legal minds to explore building enterprise-grade applications on Ethereum. The rapid growth of the EEA Legal Industry Working Group is…
Goodwin will host the Silicon Valley Ethereum Meetup’s monthly gathering on Sunday, May 7, 2017 at our office in Menlo Park, CA. Panelists Daniel Buchner, Head of Decentralized Identity at Microsoft, Andy Atkin, a voice in experimental psychology and healthcare IT, and Grant Fondo, Partner and Chair of Goodwin’s Digital…
On Tuesday, October 4th, Goodwin will host noted author and Fintech thought-leader, Chris Skinner for a breakfast presentation in our New York office. Mr. Skinner is the author of the recently released book, Value Web: How Fintech Firms are using Mobile and Blockchain Technologies to Create the Internet of Value….
In our last Fintech Flash we covered the pros and cons of marketplace lending platform companies entering into bank partnerships. If the arrangement is structured properly, two significant advantages result: The platform company does not need state lender licenses. By virtue of the bank partner enjoying interest rate exportation authority,…