Digital Asset Platform GSR Taps Hedge Fund for First Legal Chief

GSR Markets Ltd. has become the latest digital asset trading outfit to recruit a top in-house lawyer from the traditional financial services space.

Eva Sanchez, a managing director, general counsel, and head of international compliance at investment firm AQR Capital Management LLC, has joined London-based GSR as its first-ever chief legal officer.

Sanchez said she was attracted to GSR by the “vision” of its management team, as well as the “eye-watering pace” at which the digital asset industry is expanding and the ability it has to transform the future of financial services.

GSR’s hire of Sanchez comes as asset managers, ...