Bloomberg Law
Aug. 4, 2020, 10:00 AMUpdated: Aug. 4, 2020, 9:05 PM

Crypto Firm Bison Trails Taps Ex-Goldman Lawyer as Legal Chief (2)

Brian Baxter
Brian Baxter
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Bison Trails Co., a founding member of digital currency group the Libra Association, has recruited a former in-house lawyer from The Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to be its first general counsel.

Elizabeth Ralston began working remotely as Bison Trails’ first in-house lawyer last month, she told Bloomberg Law. The move comes eight months after the company—founded in October 2018 and backed by venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins—raised nearly $26 million in a Series A funding round led by Blockchain Capital LLC and Coinbase Ventures, an affiliate of cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Inc.

In July, Coinbase recruited Paul Grewal, a former ...

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