- The Legal 500 honored Andy among the United States’ leading lawyers for companies in the fintech industry (2020 – 2022)
- The American Crypto Association recognized Andy as a Top 25 Crypto Lawyer (2020)
- "Greater Seattle Tech Ecosystem Report" by the Innovate Leadership Network and the University of Washington Bothell recognized Andy as one of the top tech lawyers (2017 – 2018)
Andy provides strategic and practical counseling to Web3.0 technology companies, with a focus on blockchain and complex open system designs. Andy is the co-inventor of many of the decentralized structures and models that are now utilized industrywide and serves as a strategic thought partner to top blockchain projects from around the world.
Andy has extensive experience with a wide variety of Web3.0 designs and transactions, including:
- Airdrops
- Centralized and decentralized cryptocurrency designs
- Centralized and decentralized digital asset exchanges
- Cryptocurrency presales
- DAOs, including decentralized governance, tax optimization and securities compliance
- DeFi model design and implementation
- Fractionalization and digitization of traditional assets
- Gaming platforms integrating governance tokens, consumables and other NFT assets
- Mergers and acquisitions involving digital assets and decentralized models
- Metaverses
- Token generation events
- Venture financing structures that integrate token exposure
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Representative Experience
- Binance’s acquisition of Trust Wallet
- Blockchains’ multiple acquisitions, including Slock.it
- Confidential Buyer’s acquisition of Poloniex
- Confidential Buyer’s acquisition of Steamit
- Countless venture capital and token-based financings representing Web3.0 companies
- Dapper Labs' spin-out and financings
- FTX’s financings and strategic transactions
Representative Clients
- 1inch
- AIKON
- Amberdata
- Ampleforth
- Arbitrum
- Audius
- Bitfury
- Blockchains
- Bonfida
- BrainTrust
- Casper Labs
- Celo
- Centre
- CityCoins
- Coinbase
- Coinme
- Compound Labs
- Dapper Labs
- Dfinity
- ENS
- The Fifty-Five Foundry
- FTX
- Gate.io
- The Graph
- GrowYourBase
- Harmony
- Hedera
- Horizen
- Hypernet Labs
- Jump
- Matic
- Metaplex Studios
- Mysten Labs
- Mythical Games
- NEAR Protocol
- Nebulas
- Nervos
- Novi Financial
- OpenSea
- Parity
- Pixel Vault
- Poloniex
- PrimeTrust
- Scopely
- Serum
- Solana
- Stakefish
- SuperRare
- Terra
- TokenSoft
- Tron
- TrustToken
- Yuga Labs
Professional Achievements
Education & Admissions
J.D., cum laude, University of Washington
Order of the Coif
B.A., cum laude, Accounting
University of Washington, Foster School of Business
Admitted to practice in Washington