Overview
(September 1, 2022, Washington, DC) — Steptoe partner Rachel Cannon has been named to National Law Journal's 2022 list of Trailblazers in Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, and Fintech.
Cannon has spent two decades focusing her practice on trials, high-stakes government investigations, and complex civil litigation. She has worked extensively on cryptocurrency matters, having advised both global publicly traded payments companies and privately held startups on cryptocurrency regulatory issues. In addition, she has helped companies conduct regulatory and other types of due diligence in connection with offering or accepting cryptocurrencies for payment, and secured declinations for cryptocurrency companies before the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The selection committee cited Cannon’s work protecting her clients from unwarranted enforcement actions as instrumental in its decision. Recently, she advised a global payments company on domestic and international cryptocurrency regulatory issues, a trading platform on the trading of cryptocurrencies, and a prominent retailer on how to conduct due diligence for clients looking to purchase multimillion-dollar pieces of jewelry with cryptocurrency.
Read about the recognition here.
About Steptoe
In more than 100 years of practice, Steptoe has earned an international reputation for vigorous representation of clients before governmental agencies, successful advocacy in litigation and arbitration, and creative and practical advice in structuring business transactions. Steptoe has more than 500 lawyers and other professional staff across offices in Beijing, Brussels, Chicago, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and Washington. For more information, visit www.steptoe.com.
