Description:
Blockchain technology and digital assets are revolutionizing the way we do business and make investments by decentralizing transactions, promoting disintermediation, and creating new investment opportunities . Michelle Gitlitz will provide an overview of blockchain technology, discuss how the technology is being used in the financial services industry, and highlight the new investment opportunities that have proliferated from the creation of digital assets.
Speaker’s Bio:
Michelle Gitlitz is a founder and co-chair of Blank Rome LLP’s Blockchain Technology and Digital Currencies Group. Michelle represents corporations, investment companies, and funds on a wide range of issues, including corporate, regulatory, and litigation matters. Michelle regularly advises companies as they bring blockchain technology applications to market, raise capital through coin/token issuances and digital security offerings, create digital currency exchanges/platforms, establish digital currency mining operations, and navigate through state and federal money transmission issues.Michelle was listed by the National Law Journal and New York Law Journal as a Trailblazer (2018) in Cryptocurrency, Blockchain and Fintech. Michelle is a graduate of Cornell University and Brooklyn Law School.