Hogan Lovells Law Firm – Lewis Cohen, Co-Head of Blockchain/Cryptocurrency Group – Discussions on Regulation and Compliance with a Leading International Law Firm
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2018
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Regulation and compliance are some of the biggest issues in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space right now, particularly in light of the rapidly changing regulatory landscape. Just this week, the SEC chairman presented written and in-person testimony on these issues to the Senate Banking Committee, and Lewis discusses with us what it means, especially when the tone of the written testimony seemed to differ quite a bit from the tone of his in-person testimony.
Overall, Lewis believes that the differences can be taken to mean that while the SEC believes in the economic potential of this new space, they want to make it clear that they will not stand for fraudulent schemes and bad actors.
Rather than shy away from such areas, Hogan Lovells is embracing this new area of law, and are dedicated to bringing their decades of experience in securities laws to their clients in this new and exciting space. Lewis also discusses what he sees as the future of blockchain and ICOs from an attorney's perspective, as well as what he sees as major use cases of this technology.
To chat with Lewis directly, email him at lewis.cohen@hoganlovells.com or find him on Twitter at @NYcryptolawyer.
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| 0:45.5 | Welcome to Almost Here, Round the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs. |
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| 1:10.0 | Hello, welcome everyone to the Future Tech Podcast. |
| 1:13.5 | My name is Josh Thomas. |
| 1:15.2 | I'm here with Lewis Cohen of Hogan Levels, and it is a leading international law firm. |
| 1:21.2 | He is the co-head of the blockchain and cryptocurrency group. |
| 1:25.5 | Hello, Lewis. |
| 1:26.5 | Hello, Josh. |
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| 1:29.1 | great to have you on here. I was just joking about this a second ago, but we get a lot of techie guys |
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