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The post Paul Grewal exits Coinbase legal helm before crucial CLARITY vote appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Paul Grewal has announced that he will step down as Coinbase’s chief legal officer on July 31, handing over leadership of the exchange’s legal team just days before the US Senate is expected to resume work on the CLARITY Act. Summary Paul Grewal will leave his role as Coinbase chief legal officer on July 31 and become an adviser. Molly Abraham will become general counsel as Congress prepares to revisit the CLARITY Act. Coinbase continues pushing for crypto market structure legislation after its SEC lawsuit was dismissed. According to posts Grewal published on X and LinkedIn, he will move into an advisory role at Coinbase after serving as the company’s chief legal officer since 2020. The announcement also confirmed that legal vice presidents Molly Abraham and Ryan VanGrack will take on expanded responsibilities, with Abraham becoming general counsel and VanGrack serving as vic

Paul Grewal has announced that he will step down as Coinbase’s chief legal officer on July 31, handing over leadership of the exchange’s legal team just days before the US Senate is expected to resume work on the CLARITY Act.…

The post Coinbase Chief Legal Officer to Transition to Advisory Role on July 31 appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Paul Grewal, who has served as Coinbase’s chief legal officer since 2020, announced that he would transition to an advisory role at the exchange starting on July 31. In a Thursday X thread and LinkedIn post, Grewal said Coinbase’s legal vice presidents Molly Abraham and Ryan VanGrack would step into new roles as general counsel and vice chair, respectively, following his departure at the end of the month. Abraham said that she would “take the helm” at the exchange’s legal team. Source: Paul Grewal Whoever steps into Grewal’s shoes as the exchange’s next chief legal officer would likely have significant influence over crypto policy and regulation in the US. As CLO, Grewal led the exchange’s legal team through the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s 2023 enforcement action that alleged it had been operating as an unregistered securities exchange, broker and clearing ag

Coinbase Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal is stepping down after six years, with Molly Abraham set to take over as general counsel. The post Coinbase chief legal officer Paul Grewal to step down after six years appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

The post With SEC fight over, Coinbase’s top legal exec Grewal moves on, and others reassigned appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Coinbase Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal is leaving the company after its high-profile, years-long legal fight with U.S. regulators, and the U.S. exchange also announced further changes to its senior leadership. Grewal is departing to work at a startup, according to a Thursday announcement from Coinbase. Molly Abraham will now lead the company’s legal team as general counsel, and Ryan Van Grack will become vice chairman, in what’s anticipated to be a broader and more public-facing role. “Leading Coinbase’s legal team through the biggest fight of our industry has been the single greatest achievement of my six-year tenure,” Grewal said in a statement. “Our legal wins helped ensure crypto not only had a future in this country, but could flourish.” His statement continued on to say he would continue as an adviser to Coinbase, and would work on Coinbase’s trust