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Join the Securities Litigation and Enforcement Group on LinkedInTerra Co-Founder Shin, Nine Others Indicted by South Korea – Bloomberg
South Korea indicted Terraform Labs co-founder Daniel Shin along with nine others on multiple charges including violations of capital markets law related to the Terra cryptocurrency project, which imploded last year. Prosecutors froze 246.8 billion won ($184.7 million) in assets from the people so far, Dan Sung Han, the head prosecutor who leads the financial […]
SEC Charges Terraform and CEO Do Kwon with Defrauding Investors in Crypto Schemes
According to the SEC’s complaint, from April 2018 until the scheme’s collapse in May 2022, Terraform and Kwon raised billions of dollars from investors by offering and selling an inter-connected suite of crypto asset securities, many in unregistered transactions. These included “mAssets,” security-based swaps designed to pay returns by mirroring the price of stocks of […]
How a Trash-Talking Crypto Bro Caused a $40 Billion Crash – The New York Times
Mr. Kwon dismissed concerns with a taunt: “I don’t debate the poor.” But last week, Luna and another currency that Mr. Kwon developed, TerraUSD, suffered a spectacular collapse. Their meltdowns had a domino effect on the rest of the cryptocurrency market, tanking the price of Bitcoin and accelerating the loss of $300 billion in value […]
Terraform Labs’ legal team resigns after UST collapse
A person familiar with the matter told The Block that legal operations are now being handled by outside counsel. The LinkedIn profiles of Terraform Labs’ general counsel Marc Goldich, chief corporate counsel Lawrence Florio, and chief litigation and regulatory counsel Noah Axler show that all three stopped working for the company in May — all after […]