Gerald Reihsen–Lawyer and Entrepreneur–Why properly setting up blockchain companies to minimize legal liability matters
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2017
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Gerald Reihsen, a lawyer, entrepreneur, and speaker at the upcoming Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Blockchain Super Conference in Dallas, offers some thoughts on why it is necessary to properly set up blockchain companies and ICOs to minimize potential civil and criminal liabilities.
Many companies are currently being formed with little appreciation of how to build a successful company, and keep it a success for the long term–many are jumping straight in to the deep end of the pool with their ICOs, and have not stopped to consider how upcoming regulations on ICOs and securities might affect their businesses in the future.
Though there is currently little in the way of regulation of ICOs in the cryptospace, that won't stop companies, their founders, and exchanges from being liable for failing to follow the regulations that are coming–even if your business is located outside the US, or you don't allow US customers to take place in ICO sales.
For more information, visit www.swordshieldlaw.com, or email Gerald at greihsen@swordshieldlaw.com.
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| 0:00.0 | The Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Blockchain Super Conference is coming to Dallas, Texas, February 16, 17, and 18 in 2018. |
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| 0:41.4 | That's Bitcoin superconference.com. |
| 0:45.4 | Welcome to Almost Here, Round the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:51.7 | Future Technologies always to transform our lives for better or worse |
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| 1:01.1 | used or just around the corner. From Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, 3D printing, blockchain, |
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| 1:14.1 | Hello, this is Richard Jacob, Future Tech Podcast. |
| 1:16.7 | The guest today is Gerald Weissan. |
| 1:18.8 | He's a lawyer and an entrepreneur. |
| 1:22.3 | His firm is called Sword Shield Law. |
| 1:26.2 | He's going to be speaking at the Bitcoin Super Conference coming up in February. |
| 1:31.9 | And Jared's going to be talking about token-based companies, how they can structure themselves properly to avoid problems with litigation and running into the bad side of any of the |
| 1:38.2 | regulatory bodies that are out there, whatever they may be. |
| 1:41.2 | So, Jerry, how are you doing? |
| 1:42.3 | Yeah, so tell us a little bit about your background, because you're not just a lawyer and, you know, you're an entrepreneur. I want to hear the perspective that you have that's different from your run-of-the-mill attorney that just, you know, looks for problems in the law, for instance. Yeah, sure. Well, I practiced mostly at a firm called Gibson-D Crutcher, for about 15 years as a corporate |
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