Crypto Council hires Akin Gump, Covington signs Kia
By CAITLIN OPRYSKO
10/18/2022 05:56 PM EDT
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With Daniel Lippman
NEW BUSINESS: The Crypto Council for Innovation, whose members include the crypto exchange Coinbase, Fidelity, Block, Andreessen Horowitz, Gemini and Paradigm, has hired Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. The council made its first lobbying hire last year, bringing on Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck as the crypto industry scrambled to respond to its inclusion as a pay-for in the bipartisan infrastructure bill.
— But the group parted ways with Brownstein at the end of the year, and picked up the Sternhell Group, which represents a number of other crypto and fintech startups (as well as more established financial firms). Sternhell also lobbied for Facebook back when the platform was working on its own digital currency offering, and recent disclosures show they still lobby for parent company Meta on digital currency and blockchain issues.
— Akin Gump’s...
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