ABOUT
Linda Lerner is widely recognized for her deep expertise in the regulation of financial markets and their participants as a partner of Halloran Farkas + Kittila LLP and head of the New York office. Linda devotes much of her practice to the regulation of security tokens and is widely sought out for her experience in obtaining approval for brokerage firms to offer and trade these securities and to establish platforms for their trading. She serves as Chair of the ABA Task Force on Private Placement Brokers and works closely with SEC and FINRA senior staff to resolve challenging issues in the digital security space, including non-custodial solutions, stablecoins and offering and selling other digital assets. Linda is the founding chair of the American Bar Association Task Force on Offering and Trading Tokenized Securities and frequently writes and lectures on digital assets. In addition, she serves as Chair of the ABA Task Force on Underserved Entrepreneur Equality. Linda co-authors the Bloomberg BNA Portfolio “Broker-Dealer Registration: Demystifying the Process” and has served on a number of Nasdaq and FINRA committees focused on, among other things, trade disputes, electronic trading and trade reporting.
