Jeffrey Alberts

Jeffrey Alberts co-heads the firm’s FinTech Group. In this role, he represents blockchain, digital currency, payments, and FinTech companies on a wide variety of regulatory issues. Jeffrey regularly advises clients concerning money transmission, securities offering, anti-money laundering, prepaid access, consumer credit, privacy and data security, and payment processing regimes. He also represents FinTech clients in responding to regulatory inquiries and enforcement actions.

Jeffrey has particularly extensive experience in the application of law to blockchain technology and has represented the global leaders of the blockchain industry since 2014. His groundbreaking legal work representing blockchain pioneers has been discussed in several histories of the blockchain industry, including Beyond Bitcoin: Decentralised Finance and the End of Banks (2022), The Cryptopians (2022), and Out of Ether (2020).

In 2023, Chambers and Partners ranked him in its FinTech guide. A thought leader in the field, Jeffrey is regularly featured in prestige legal and trade publications, such as the Wall Street Journal, Time, and Coin Desk, among others. He co-authored the seminal law review article, “Is Bitcoin a Security?,” which was published in the Winter 2015 issue of the Boston University School of Law Journal of Science & Technology Law, and has been widely cited in treatises such as Regulating Blockchain, published by Oxford University Press. In 2018, the National Law Journal named Jeffrey to its inaugural list of Cryptocurrency, Blockchain and FinTech Trailblazers. He continues to work on cutting-edge legal issues related to the use of blockchain technology, including developments in the use of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms.