Jeremy Moorehouse focuses his practice on complex matters in the digital assets, FinTech, and financial services sectors. He advises clients on novel market structure, trading, payment, digital asset, lending and banking issues in strategic advisory, product, crisis counseling, enforcement and policy matters.

Mr. Moorehouse has extensive, hands-on experience representing digital assets companies and other innovators in both routine and bet the company matters. This includes advising SEC and CFTC registrants such as broker-dealers, alternative trading systems, investment advisers, national securities exchanges, futures commission merchants, designated contracts markets and derivatives clearing organizations, among others, on the full range of registration, operational, market structure and enforcement matters. He also routinely counsels digital assets and emerging technology companies on the regulatory implications and risks associated with planning, launching and scaling their businesses in the United States and abroad. Mr. Moorehouse is actively involved in policy matters, including advocating for centralized and decentralized digital assets companies in discussions with state and federal agencies and lawmakers. He also frequently speaks about market structure, trading, digital assets, blockchain, AI and other emerging technologies transforming the financial services and securities sectors.

Prior to rejoining the firm, Mr. Moorehouse held several executive in-house roles at leading digital asset and financial services firms, including as chief legal officer of a digital asset wealth management platform; general counsel of Figure Markets; general counsel of Slingshot Finance; and senior regulatory strategy counsel at Kraken Exchange. 

Mr. Moorehouse began his legal career at WilmerHale, where he counseled clients on various regulatory, compliance and enforcement matters, including with respect to transaction and audit trail reporting, trading and market structure, compliance and supervisory systems, automated trading and risk controls, financial technology and trading platforms, net capital requirements and securities offerings.

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Credentials

  • Education

    • JD, Loyola University Chicago School of Law, 2010

      magna cum laude Alpha Sigma Nu Honors, Executive Editor, Loyola University Chicago Law Journal, Member, Public Interest Law Reporter
    • BA, Economics, Northwestern University, 2007

  • Admissions

    • District of Columbia

    • New York

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