Ethical Issues in Cryptocurrency Transactions: Model Rules, Guidance, and Challenges for Counsel

Professor Painter received his B.A., summa cum laude, in history from Harvard University and his J.D. from Yale University, where he was an editor of the Yale Journal on Regulation. Following law school, Professor Painter clerked for Judge John T. Noonan Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit and later practiced at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York City and Finn Dixon & Herling in Stamford, Conn. He has served as a tenured member of the law faculty at the University of Oregon School of Law and the University of Illinois College of Law, where he was the Guy Raymond and Mildred Van Voorhis Jones Professor of Law from 2002 to 2005. Professor Painter has been the S. Walter Richey Professor of Corporate Law at the University of Minnesota Law School since 2007.

Mr. Peltz co-chairs FRB’s Digital Assets Practice Group and chairs FRB’s Intellectual Property Practice Group. He oversees coordination between the Digital Asset Practice Group and all other practice groups of the firm, to ensure that the firm’s clients receive the benefit of FRB’s full-service approach, custom tailored to the unique issues presented by the blockchain industry. Mr. Peltz also advises numerous venture technology companies on emerging technology and blockchain matters, with a focus on the intersection of IP and blockchain. He has been advising cryptocurrency ventures since 2014 and combines his knowledge of the blockchain with a decade of IP and business law experience where he helps entrepreneurs grow their businesses and brands and resolve disputes.