Ep 16 – Sarah Hody and Valeria Bystrowicz-Liendo of Perkins Coie

Sarah Hody counsels entrepreneurs, established tech businesses
and innovators on a variety of regulatory matters, primarily in
the fintech and blockchain industries. Sarah is well-versed in
state and federal financial services regulations, data security,
privacy, intellectual property and regulatory compliance.


Sarah’s background includes serving as in-house counsel at
Coinbase, a digital asset exchange company as well as assisting
token crowd sales (ICOs), asset-backed digital tokens,
peer-to-peer lending, corporate governance, Bank Secrecy Act
compliance, FINRA arbitration and financial services litigation.


 


Valeria Bystrowicz-Liendo advises emerging growth and established
technology companies in the United States and Latin America, with
a particular emphasis on blockchain/distributed ledger technology
(DLT).


As part of the Blockchain Technology & Digital Currency
industry group, Valeria has been at the forefront of the legal
and regulatory frameworks related to virtual currency and
blockchain.


She has represented clients in launching commercial platforms
powered by blockchain tokens and counselled teams through their
initial coin offerings (ICOs) process by offering regulatory
guidance and corporate advice in engineering domestic and
international corporate structures.


After listening to this episode you will learn:


How Sarah and Valeria got started in the legal field

The challenges they faced as lawyers and how they discovered
blockchains

How the law operates and requires taking a new set of facts
and sifting that through existing rules

How there are tons of hard problems to be solved in the
Blockchain world both technically and legally

How tokens, Dapps and other Blockchain focused applications
will touch everything we do behind the scenes

How GDPR compliance, new European legislation is pushing the
"right to be forgotten" data management policies

What Sarah and Valeria would change and want to see more of
in the space



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