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    Digital Assets

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    S&C’s Digital Assets Practice leverages the Firm’s premier Financial Services and FinTech practices to advise a variety of industry members on their most significant blockchain, digital assets and currencies, and cryptocurrency-related legal and business issues. The multidisciplinary group consists of lawyers across several practice groups at the Firm who collaborate seamlessly to solve our clients most novel issues.

    Our clients range from startups seeking to innovate beyond the “traditional” financial industry, to the most highly regulated financial institutions seeking to improve their products and services using new technology, to consumer businesses hoping to integrate innovative technologies into new and better product offerings. Our experience includes regulatory and compliance advice, M&A, capital markets and other transactional matters, development of the legal and contractual framework for new products, corporate structuring and governance guidance, investigations and enforcement matters (including those involving the Securities and Exchange Commission and state enforcement authorities), anti-money laundering and sanctions compliance, intellectual property, and tax structuring advice.

    As projects touch upon various industries and capabilities, our practice group draws upon our colleagues, across the Firm’s practice areas and global offices, to meet our clients’ needs:

    • Financial Services
    • Fintech
    • Intellectual Property & Technology Transactions
    • Cybersecurity
    • Economic Sanctions and Financial Crime
    • Capital Markets
    • Tax
    • Litigation & Enforcement
    • Mergers and Acquisitions
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    Rankings and Recognitions

    Rankings and Recognitions

    • S&C Awarded Law360 ‘Practice Group of the Year’ for Fintech

      February 20, 2025
    • Law360 Names S&C a ‘Firm of the Year’ with Eight ‘Practice Group of the Year’ Wins

      January 22, 2025
    • Law360 MVP Awards: Eight Sullivan & Cromwell Partners Named 2024 MVPs 

      October 23, 2024
    • Rebecca Simmons Named a Fellow of the American College of Commercial Finance Attorneys

      March 8, 2024
    • S&C Awarded Law360 ‘Practice Group of the Year’ for Fintech

      February 28, 2024
    • S&C Co-Chair Robert Giuffra Jr. Discusses ‘Firm of the Year’ Distinction with Law360

      January 25, 2024
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    News

    News

    • S&C Advises SoftBank Group in Formation of the First Bitcoin-Native Public Company

      April 25, 2025
    • S&C Advises SIFMA in Legal Viability Report of a Regulated Settlement Network

      January 23, 2025
    • S&C Obtains Ruling Vacating SEC’s Expanded ‘Dealer’ Definition on Behalf of Crypto Groups

      November 26, 2024
    • S&C Advises Yuga Labs in Acquisition of PROOF

      February 21, 2024
    • Mitch Eitel, Stephen Salley and Rodge Cohen Participate in The Clearing House’s 2023 Annual Conference

      November 16–17, 2023
    • Dalia Blass Discusses Bitcoin ETF Regulations with Law360

      July 10, 2023
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    Publications, Videos and Podcasts

    Publications, Videos and Podcasts

    • SEC Issues Guidance on Crypto Asset Exchange-Traded Products

      S&C Memos |  July 3, 2025
    • Stablecoin Legislation

      S&C Memos |  June 23, 2025
    • SEC Withdraws 14 Proposed Rules

      S&C Memos |  June 18, 2025
    • SEC and FINRA Withdraw Broker-Dealer Digital Asset Security Custody Statement

      S&C Memos |  June 2, 2025
    • SEC Staff Issues Staking Guidance

      S&C Memos |  May 30, 2025
    • CFTC Staff Issues Interpretation on ‘U.S. Person’ Definition

      S&C Memos |  May 23, 2025
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    Practice Contacts

    Practice Contacts

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