Coinbase CEO Threatens Law Firms Over Government Hires (1)

December 3, 2024, 7:04 PM UTCUpdated: December 4, 2024, 2:07 AM UTC

Coinbase Global Inc. is warning its law firms not to hire any anti-crypto government lawyers or risk losing the company’s work in what could be a sign of things to come for Biden administration attorneys.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong wrote in a post on X on Dec. 2 that “we’ve let all the law firms we work with know, that if they hire anyone who committed these bad deeds in the (soon to be) prior administration, we will no longer be a client of theirs.”

Armstrong then singled out Milbank LLP’s hire of Gurbir Grewal in October, who was the ...

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