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Description: CRYPTO, CROWDFUNDING & OTHER CRAZY CONCEPTS - 2021 Series
Episode #1: CryptoCurrency-101
June 24, 2021 at 2:00 PM CST
What is money? How is cryptocurrency different? Is permitting or requiring crypto payment of contracts sound from a legal or accounting perspective? How will the underlying technology of blockchain bear upon future commercial practices? What are you or your client investing in when investing in cryptocurrency? What is an initial coin offering (or ICO), and what are the legal risks involved? Federal regulators have defined cryptocurrency as a commodity in one context, and as a security in others. In this introduction to cryptocurrency, panelists active in the field will discuss cryptocurrency as payment mechanism and as investment, with peculiar risks and opportunities. We will discuss the history and adoption of cryptocurrency, as well as the underlying technology (including blockchain, but we will not make your eyes water), cybersecurity, and fraud.
This webinar is delivered in Plain English, understandable to you even if you do not have a background in the subject. It brings you into an engaging, even sometimes humorous, conversation designed to entertain as it teaches. And, it is specifically designed to be viewed as a stand-alone webinar, meaning that you do not have to view the other webinars in the series to get a lot out of it.
Speaker Information
Moderator:
Christopher Cahill, Partner, Sugar Felsenthal Grais & Helsinger LLP
Mr. Cahill is a partner at Sugar Felsenthal Grais & Helsinger LLP, in Chicago, Illinois. He guides secured lenders, creditors, debtors, creditors’ committees, potential purchasers and others through bankruptcy cases, out-of-court workouts, assignments for the benefit of creditors, and receiverships. Mr. Cahill has substantial mega-case experience representing very large debtors, and counsels and litigates on behalf of manufacturers and secured lenders in large and middle-market cases.
Mr. Cahill also publishes frequently and speaks regularly on commercial insolvency issues. For example, he is an executive editor of Commercial Bankruptcy Litigation, 2d Edition (Jonathan P. Friedland, Elizabeth Vandesteeg & Christopher M. Cahill eds., 2020).
Speaker #1:
Amy Wan, Partner, Sosnow & Associates PLLC
Amy Wan is a Partner at CrowdfundingLawyers.net where she practices crowdfunding and securities law. Formerly, she was General Counsel at Patch of Land, a real estate crowdfunding platform, where she pioneered a novel iteration of the payment dependent instrument and advised the company on its Series A funding round. Amy also brings extensive experience in legal innovation and rethinking the delivery of legal services. She is the founder and co-organized of Legal Hackers LA, and was named one of ten women to watch in legal technology by the American Bar Association Journal in 2014, was named as a Finalist for the Corporate Counsel of the Year Award 2015 by LA Business Journal, and is a frequent speaker. She has also served as a Presidential Management Fellow at the U.S. Departments of Transportation, Commerce, and State. She is a graduate of the University of Southern California and the London School of Economics.
Speaker #2:
Karl M. Sjogren, Author, The Fairshare Model
From 1996 to early 2001, I was CEO and co-founder of a company, Fairshare, that was a front-runner for the modern concept of crowdfunding. That experience, together with what I’ve learned as a consultant, provides the foundation for the book I’m working on, The Fairshare Model.
Prior to moving to the San Francisco Bay area in 1983, I lived and worked in for established manufacturing companies in St. Louis, Chicago and the Detroit area, where I grew up.
I have a BA degree in Business/Pre-law as well as a MBA degree in finance from Michigan State University. I am also registered as a Certified Public Accountant in Illinois.
 | | Practice Areas: | | Administrative Law & Regulation, Banking & Finance Law | | | Online Media Type: | | Audio | | | Production Date: | | 06/24/2021 | | | Level: | | Intermediate | | | Category: | | Standard | | | Duration: | | 1 Hours, 2 Minutes | | | Online Format: | | On Demand | | | Course Type: | | Public |
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| | • | Christopher Cahill - Sugar Felsenthal Grais & Helsinger LLP | | • | Amy Wan - Partner, Sosnow & Associates PLLC | | • | Karl M. Sjogren - Author, The Fairshare Model |
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