Top SEC anti-crypto lawyer jumps ship, defects to a crypto law firm
In a surprising twist of events, one of the top anti-cryptocurrency attorneys at the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), who played a major role in multiple anti-crypto actions, Ladan Stewart, has left the regulatory agency and defected to a pro-crypto law firm, White & Case. As it happens, Stewart, who was the leader of the enforcement division and the crypto and cyber litigation unit at the SEC and familiar to the crypto community for her anti-crypto efforts, has recently changed her tune and joined the crypto law firm as a partner, Bloomberg Law reported on February 21. Indeed, she highlighted that her plan was to devote attention to developing a crypto and cyber defense practice at White & Case, considering the industry’s growing presence in the mainstream, heightened by the SEC’s recent approval of the first spot Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund (ETF). Picked for you ECB slams Bitcoin ETFs as ‘the naked emperor’s new clothes’ 59 m...