Crypto World: How Well Do You Understand Blockchain, Business and Law?

Come join your colleagues to explore emerging cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies that will impact how your clients do business successfully today and tomorrow. Programming will benefit practitioners with little or no understanding of cryptocurrency, as well as those practitioners with an advance understanding of the “Crypto World.”

This panel will address:

• A technical and pragmatic explanation of the underlying technologies;
• The creation of security interests, and other uniform commercial code considerations;
• Regulatory frameworks;
• The interplay of “smart” contracts;
• Issues involving cryptocurrency valuation and assignment in the insolvency context;
• How new cryptocurrencies are handled in the context of preferences, fraudulent transfers, and disputes regarding property of bankruptcy estates.

Panelists:

• Catherine K. Hopkin, Yumkas, Vidmar, Sweeney & Mulrenin, LLC
• Brian Dykstra, AtlanticData Foresnics
• Bud Stephen Tayman, Bud Stephen Tayman, P.A.
• Rasneek Gujral, Richard D. London & Associates, P.C.
• Moderator: Joyce A. Kuhns, Offit Kurman, P.A.
• Material Contributor: Tiffany Franc, Esq.

The Greater Maryland Network of the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC) and the Consumer Bankruptcy Section of the Maryland State Bar Association (MSBA) will host the event at Venable LLP’s offices located at 750 E. Pratt Street, Suite 900, Baltimore, Maryland.

Dinner will be provided by the Greater Maryland Network of IWIRC.

Networking will start at 5:30 p.m. and the program will follow at 6 p.m.