Uniswap has a brand new chief authorized officer, and the authorized head at Digital Forex Group has moved on to broaden blockchain capabilities at a regulation agency.
Katherine Minarik joined Uniswap from Coinbase, the place she was vice chairman of authorized and deputy basic counsel. She is about to exchange Marvin Ammori, who held the decentralized alternate’s CLO submit since 2020.
Ammori is about to shift later this 12 months to a part-time function targeted on world public coverage for DeFi, he mentioned in an X post — including that he made the choice to spend extra time along with his younger household.
The now former CLO known as Minarik the “key architect” of Coinbase’s litigation technique and famous her background at litigation agency Bartlit Beck. The publicly traded crypto alternate has been entrenched in a legal battle with the Securities and Trade Fee for a 12 months.
The SEC despatched a Wells discover — which generally precedes enforcement actions — to Uniswap in April. The regulator argues the Uniswap protocol is an unregistered securities alternate, Ammori instructed CNBC — claims the corporate refutes.
Learn extra: SEC signals to Uniswap that enforcement actions are looming
“We articulated our views in our Wells Response filed with the SEC in Could,” Ammori mentioned within the X submit. “If the SEC does transfer ahead with litigation, we expect to win.”
Talking of crypto authorized professionals transferring round, Mike Katz is now a accomplice at skilled companies agency Manatt, Phelps & Phillips.
Katz was beforehand head of authorized for Digital Forex Group. In his new function, the chief is about to assist Manatt broaden its blockchain capabilities.
He brings a “distinctive understanding of the authorized and enterprise facets of decentralized finance, blockchain and AI sectors in addition to the investments and progress alternatives inside,” Manatt CEO Donna Wilson mentioned in an announcement.
Different notable developments
- BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes, who can be the chief funding officer at Maelstrom, joined blockchain information infrastructure firm Covalent as a strategic adviser.
- Shodipo Ayomide, an ex-global head of developer advocacy at Polygon, now leads developer relations at layer-1 information ecosystem Nuklai.
- Elliott Suthers, the previous head of communications at Coinbase, now leads EMEA comms for Instruments for Humanity — a contributor to Worldcoin.
- Blockchain infrastructure agency Paxos reduce roughly 20% of its workforce (65 individuals), The Block reported.
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