After reading the Kik Complaint, I reached out to a few of my friends in the U.S. crypto space, including two experienced litigators (Kayvan Sadeghi, a securities litigation partner at Schiff Hardin LLP, and Jake Chervinsky, general counsel of Compound Finance) and three seasoned transactional lawyers (Jay Baris, a partner at Shearman & Sterling LLP, Lewis Cohen, a partner at DLx Law LLP and Joel Telpner, a partner at Sullivan LLP), for their views on some tough questions concerning the Kik case, as well as another high-profile case recently filed in the United States, In re Letitia James v. ?iFinex Inc., et al. (more commonly referred to as the NY AG’s case against Bitfinex).
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