lawyer. partner, @kslaw. co-chair, emerging companies/VC group & co-chair, fintech group. no legal advice here.

Miami, FL
Joined August 2009
i posted on linkedin earlier this week that @kslaw is opening an office in miami. the post has generated more impressions and inbound messages than anything i've ever posted, anywhere. @rabois and @FrancisSuarez may be onto something.
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the year is 2038. the world’s biggest law firm has promoted 6,487 lawyers to non-equity partner and 84,785,321 AI agents to non-human partner. you attempt to laugh, but you’re out of humor tokens. life is good.
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Dan Kahan retweeted
Miamiposting might be a phenomenon whose time has passed, but having just spent a few days visiting, it really does feel like a boomtown in a way that no other American city that I've spent time in over the past few years does. In some ways, it reminds me of Chinese cities.
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congratulations to the @Ripple and @palisadeinc teams on this important acquisition!
Institutional-grade asset custody just got supercharged. We're acquiring @palisadeinc: on.ripple.com/4hPt4XG Palisade offers a fast and scalable wallet solution, ideal for on/off ramps and global corporate payments – this integration accelerates value transfer across Ripple Payments and Ripple Custody. Secure custody enables the onchain economy. From safe storage to seamless transfer, we're building the Internet of Value. →
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great work here by @DerekColla, @RSSH273, and the @doublezero team on this. we’ve come a long way from the tokenjet days!
🚨Big day for crypto regulation 🚨 The SEC granted @doublezero's no action letter request covering the Programmatic Distributions of 2Z tokens, which clarifies that these token distributions do not amount to securities transactions.
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“typewriters will hurt our bottom line” “word processors will hurt our bottom line” “internet research tools will hurt our bottom line” anything can hurt your bottom line if you don’t figure out ways to leverage your time better to deliver more and better service to clients.
Talking with a guy in big law: "Adopting too much AI will hurt our bottom line."
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We're hiring a US-based senior relationship manager at @StarkWareLtd - please DM me if interested! starkware.co/careers/career/…
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there are a few things going on with stablecoins and market structure legislation these days, so i'm excited that @kslaw and @ElecTranAssoc are hosting @RepFrenchHill in our office today for our 2025 Fintech Summit! kslaw.com/news-and-insights/…
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We're not saying your crypto assets are securities, but if they are (and we're working on clarifying that) or your company is involved in the crypto industry, here's some disclosure guidance: sec.gov/newsroom/speeches-st…
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here's the background: some tokens are securities. a lot of the current securities law disclosure requirements (in Regulation S-K) don't make sense for tokens, at least not as written. some of us have been wrestling with these issues for a decade.
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now we have some potential creative solutions offered up by the SEC Staff on how to solve these these square-peg-round-hole issues.
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agree, and this problem extends beyond just transfer restrictions. in a space where technical composability is ubiquitous, the amount of legal wheel-reinventing is as dangerous as it is dumb. e.g., why does everyone write their own vesting/lockup provisions from scratch?
If you have good lawyers they should be drafting the transfer restrictions broadly enough to prohibit this.
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Join us for the Corporate Venture Panel.⁠ 💼⁠ Register Now for #FVCC25MIAMI: bit.ly/FVCC25MIAMIRegistrati…⁠ ⁠ Featuring Panelists:⁠ Michael Hauser, SAIC Ventures⁠ Stephanie Cherrin, @jpmorgan⁠ Craig Lange, @Caterpillar⁠Inc Daniel Kahan, @kslaw
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Dan Kahan retweeted
the lawyers: “he said, ‘six more weeks of due diligence!’”
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congratulations to the @hellosageNYC team!
✨ Big news! Sage raised $35M in Series B funding led by IVP. This fuels our mission to transform senior care with faster response times, real-time insights, and thriving communities 🌟 Learn more about our journey: hubs.li/Q02-x4jQ0
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love seeing @Roy_Meets_World—who dabbled in basketball before co-founding Entertainment 720 on Parks & Recreation—as a commentator on @CBSSports’s coverage of @GeorgetownHoops
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thank you, @Yueqi_Yang, for including my perspective in this thoughtful analysis @theinformation
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congratulations to the @iyris_solar team!
Iyris makes fresh produce easier to grow in difficult climates, raises $16M tcrn.ch/454FXGT
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congratulations to @KendrickMeek (a friend and great @kslaw miami colleague!) on joining @coinbase's global advisory council.
We all need advisors in life who tell us what we need to hear— @coinbase is no exception. Thank you @KendrickMeek for your wise counsel.
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