Recorded Webinar — Initial Coin Offerings: Can Securities Regulators Balance Market Growth and Investor Protection?

Media Briefings & Webinars

Featuring:

Daniel S. Alter, Partner, Murphy & McGonigle and Former General Counsel, New York State Department of Financial Services
Alan Cohn, Of Counsel, Steptoe & Johnson LLP and Counsel, Blockchain Alliance
Scott H. Kimpel, Partner, Hunton Andrews Kurth and Former Counsel to SEC Commissioner Troy A. Paredes

Description:

Despite the rapid rise of cryptocurrency exchange as a means for individuals and enterprises to raise capital, legal and regulatory clarity at the federal and state levels are sorely lacking. Such uncertainty has inspired questionable behavior in the ICO market and encouraged the creation of standards through investigation and enforcement. Our speakers will discuss actions taken by the SEC and state FinTech regulators and how those agencies can most effectively police fraud and encourage growth through transparent and predictable rules.

Speakers' Biographies

Daniel S. Alter

Daniel S. Alter is a Partner with Murphy & McGonigle in the firm’s New York, NY office. Before serving as general counsel and chief compliance officer for the first New York State-chartered trust company providing blockchain systems for post-trade settlement and custody services, Mr. Alter was the first general counsel for the New York State Department of Financial Services. He was also Senior Advisor and Special Counsel to the New York State Attorney General, as well as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Early in his career, Mr. Alter clerked for United States Circuit Judges John M. Walker, Jr. and Guido Calabresi, both of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

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Alan Cohn

Alan Cohn is Of Counsel to Steptoe & Johnson, LLP in the firm’s Washington, DC office. Before joining the firm, Mr. Cohn served in senior policy positions at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for almost a decade, most recently as the Assistant Secretary for Strategy, Planning, Analysis & Risk and second-in-charge overall of the DHS Office of Policy. While there, he established the cyber policy office within the DHS Office of Policy. Mr. Cohn is also counsel to the Blockchain Alliance, a public-private forum established by a broad coalition of companies and organizations to help combat criminal activity on the blockchain.

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Scott H. Kimpel

Scott H. Kimpel is a Partner with Hunton Andrews Kurth in the firm’s Washington, DC office. Before joining the firm, he served on the Executive Staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission as Counsel to Commissioner Troy A. Paredes from 2008 to 2012. At the SEC, Mr. Kimpel acted as Commissioner Paredes’s liaison to the Commission’s senior staff as well as external constituencies including issuers and other SEC registrants. He leads the firm’s working group on blockchain and distributed ledger technology and edits its Blockchain Legal Resources blog.

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