Securities + Corporate Finance

Jeffrey Alberts, Co-Editor of Pryor Cashman’s Fintech Monitor, will be a panelist at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Tech Talk program “Blockchain Token Sales, ICOs, and The DAO" on October 26, 2016. The panel will discuss the emergence of token sales, initial coin offerings (ICOs), and most notably "The DAO" – a decentralized venture capital fund – that raised the equivalent of $150 million before being compromised by one or more hackers. 

Jeff and the other panelists will explore the contours of token sales, providing insight into whether these sales violate U.S. securities laws, the legal status of decentralized organizations, and whether it is possible to structure token sales that comply with U.S. laws.