Legal Expert

Crypto Counsel

Experienced business attorney with expertise in banking, cryptocurrency, and corporate finance. Creative professional who builds partnerships with a team-oriented approach. Cross-functional fintech project management experience within investment bank. Familiar with digital asset regulations across the UK, EU, and US.


Experience: 11 years

Yearly salary: $140,000

Hourly rate: $450

Nationality: 🇺🇸 United States

Residency: 🇺🇸 United States


Experience

Digital Capital Markets In-house Consultant Intern
NatWest Markets Plc Investment Bank
2023 - 2023
Product development of digital green bonds within financial services, achieving #1 ranking through dissertation and presentation among 50 competing consulting projects based on internship. Exercused flexibility in developing consensus among 5 bankers holding 3 divergent philosophies to forge roadmap for bank's digital green bond issuance, incorporating topics such as regulatory compliance within decentralized finance (DeFi), permissionless blockchains, tokenization, and central bank digital currencies. Synthesized data from 400 hours of individual research from 90 independent banking, legal, and global regulatory sources to pilot bank through an ambiguous and dynamic regulatory environment to advise on sovereign and corporate digital debt issuance. Conducted digital bond market surveillance, research market for digital assets in the context of global compliance.
Attorney and Law Firm Owner
Hayward Law Firm
2007 - 2023
Built and scaled a client-focused law firm over 10 years through proven relationship management, leadership, solving problems with keen analytical skills. Proven negotiation skills, litigation, and sales for legal services with attention to detail, securing over 5,000 legal cases. Comfortable exercising great autonomy and making decisions, asserting efficient communication skills in positive engagements that build relationships. Discreetly managed confidential client data while conducting robust financial due diligence, qualitative data analysis, informing strategic advice tailored to individual client needs and risk profiles, resulting in a 20% annual growth in referral business. Successfully preserved annual profit margins through pandemic lockdowns by 55%, leveraging technology and collaborative internal management techniques to streamline processes and sustain business continuity.

Skills

legal
english