Crypto-Asset Disputes
FinTech Guide 2024 : USA - Nationwide
Band 1
Email address
[email protected]Contact number
(424) 652-7800Chambers Review
Waymaker is a Los Angeles-based trial and appellate litigation boutique, and is held in high esteem for FinTech and crypto-asset disputes. It acts for developers of crypto tokens, dApps and DeFi protocols, crypto investors and wallet providers on commercial disputes and securities litigations as well as regulatory enforcement and criminal defence matters.
Work Highlights
- Waymaker represented Payward Ventures, Inc and Payward Trading Ltd, known as Kraken, in the SEC’s investigation of its US staking-as-a-service product.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Waymaker is absolutely tier one; they provide a really good option for smaller crypto firms."
"The Waymaker team is small but mighty, the depth of experience of the attorneys on their team ranges across the public and private sectors. The Waymaker team is highly responsive: always attentive to deadlines and does everything it can to ensure that clients meet all deadlines."
"Waymaker is absolutely tier one; they provide a really good option for smaller crypto firms."
"The Waymaker team is small but mighty, the depth of experience of the attorneys on their team ranges across the public and private sectors. The Waymaker team is highly responsive: always attentive to deadlines and does everything it can to ensure that clients meet all deadlines."
Notable Practitioners
Brian Klein is one of the pre-eminent cryptocurrency litigators in the USA. He has represented a number of businesses in responding to regulatory inquiries and defended them against criminal prosecutions.
"Brian has done a really great job at picking up major cases. He is really smart, thoughtful and very, very effective."
"Brian is a good, knowledgeable crypto asset practitioner in the space."
"Brian has developed an outstanding practice, he really is the crypto lawyer in the country in the white-collar space. He is brilliant, the person that everybody turns to. I can't speak more highly of what Brian has done in this space."
Ashley Martabano has experience representing clients in complex crypto-asset and blockchain disputes, acting in civil litigation and criminal investigations.
"Ashley is terrific."
"Ashley is incredibly impressive in her ability to quickly and efficiently understand a client's business, understand the challenges that the matter at hand presents, manage those challenges but also communicate them to clients in a way that is helpful, practical and clear."