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Initial Coin Offering
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The D&O Diary
Guest Post: Judge Reverses Blockvest Decision: ICOs are Securities
[caption id="attachment_17606" align="alignleft" width="225"] John Reed Stark[/caption] In a February 14, 2019 order, Southern District of California Judge Gonzalo Curiel entered an order reversing his earlier decision on the same…
Global IP & Technology Law Blog
Security Token Offerings: Old Wine in a New Bottle?
If you keep an ear tuned to recent developments in digital currency and blockchain, you’ve almost certainly heard the term “Security Token Offering” (or “STO”) bandied about. But what exactly…
Corporate and Securities Law
Crypto Mom Warns SEC of Over Expansive Definition of Howey in Token Offerings
Virtual Currency Report
Blockchain Week in Review: Week of January 28 – February 1, 2019
U.S. Developments Kik Publicizes Response to Possible SEC Enforcement On January 27, the Wall Street Journal published an article describing the impending legal battle over cryptocurrency Kin and its 2017…
China Law Insight
What the New PRC Blockchain Regulations Mean
By King & Wood
Initial Coin Offerings (“ICO”) hit the global zeitgeist with a bang in 2017. In those heady times a small project team in East Europe with a white paper and a…
Tech Risk Report
The New Money: Cryptocurrencies and the Role of Insurance
For approximately the past decade, cryptocurrencies were used by those who wanted to transact business anonymously and without oversight or restrictions imposed by any governmental authority. More recently, the concept…
Securities Law Prof Blog
New Securities Law Articles in Print
The following law review articles relating to securities regulation are now available in paper format:Juliana Debler, Note, Foreign Initial Coin Offering Issuers Beware: The Securities and Exchange Commission Is Watching,…
IPO
Cybersecurity 2019 — The Year in Preview: Cryptocurrency and SEC Enforcement
In our 2018 SEC year in preview post, we called attention to an expected increase in SEC cybersecurity enforcement action. The SEC has certainly lived up to the billing throughout 2018,…
Start-up Group
SEC: No Really, ICOs Are Securities
By John Lande
A common trope is that technology is evolving too fast for the law to keep up. Companies like Uber, Tesla, and Coinbase race forward while ignoring whether their technologies or…
Iowa Commercial Litigation Blog
SEC: No Really, ICOs Are Securities
By John Lande
A common trope is that technology is evolving too fast for the law to keep up. Companies like Uber, Tesla, and Coinbase race forward while ignoring whether their technologies or…