Sarah Krissoff has joined Day Pitney as a partner in the firm’s Government Enforcement and White Collar Criminal Defense practice. Previously, she served with distinction for over a decade as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. She is based in the firm’s New York office. Source: Former Southern District Prosecutor…
Jordi de Llano, an experienced federal prosecutor, has joined Troutman Pepper’s national White Collar and Government Investigations Practice Group. De Llano most recently was the Deputy Chief of the Securities, Financial & Cyber Fraud Unit in the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts, the state’s top federal law enforcement agency. Source: Troutman Pepper’s Boston Office Adds Jordi…
The U.S. should create a new regulator to oversee digital asset markets, Coinbase said in a new policy proposal released Thursday. It warned that failure to regulate appropriately could leave the country even further “behind” other governments. The proposal comes a day after one of its investors, venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, released its own vision of how next-generation internet…
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced awards of approximately $40 million to two whistleblowers whose information and assistance contributed to the success of an SEC enforcement action. The first whistleblower, whose information caused the opening of the investigation and exposed difficult-to-detect violations, will receive an award of approximately $32 million. The first whistleblower also provided substantial assistance to the…