Latham & Watkins LLP

Jenny E. Cieplak advises fintech and financial services clients on a range of corporate, intellectual property, and regulatory issues arising in connection with the development and deployment of new technologies.

Jenny provides broad-based corporate counsel to start-ups, financial institutions, investors, and newly created consortiums. She advises clients on collaborative arrangements between users and creators of market infrastructure initiatives designed to transform sectors of the financial industry, including joint development, investment, and governance agreements.

Jenny’s insights into the process of technology development, the needs of financial industry users as well as the legal issues surrounding the creation of new technologies and asset classes provide clients with a unique skillset and perspective.

Her work includes advising on:

• • The implementation of new technologies, such as artificial intelligence and distributed ledgers, and associated regulatory issues
  • The development and launch of innovative products, such as virtual currencies and digital assets, and ongoing compliance issues associated with the continued development and marketing of such assets
  • Complex joint ventures, including matters focused on entity formation, ownership structure, corporate governance, intellectual property ownership and use, and exit strategies
  • Collaborative technology development arrangements, including joint development and turnkey platform operation agreements
  • Investments in technology startups, including performance-based warrants and other related commercial arrangements
  • The creation, operation, governance, and sale of electronic trading platforms, exchanges, swap execution facilities, clearinghouses, and data repositories