Wake Up Call: CFTC Hires Hedge Fund Counsel as Chief of Staff

In today’s column, Freshfields posted global revenues up 7% to around $2.05 billion; a New York judge changed her mind about getting the Covid vaccine; and a French startup helps companies include access to legal services in their benefits packages.

• Leading off, Commodity Futures Trading Commission Commissioner Goldsmith Romero hired Joe Cisewski, the legal counsel of crypto-currency specialist hedge fund Pantera Capital, as chief of staff and senior counsel. Romero said Cisewski’s “fluency on digital-asset and other issues will be valuable as the agency’s Technology Advisory Committee embarks on its agenda later this year.” (CFTC.gov)
• Freshfields, Bruckhaus ...