Bittrex Global Bitcoin Exchange Nabs Big Law Associate as New GC

Cryptocurrency exchange Bittrex Global GmbH said Wednesday it hired Shearman & Sterling senior associate Oliver Linch to be its general counsel.

Linch started Nov. 1 after spending the past decade as part of Shearman’s financial institutions advisory and regulatory practice in London and New York.

His move to Bittrex Global comes a few months after Bittrex Inc., the company’s U.S. arm, hired former Squire Patton Boggs partner David Maria in Washington to be its head of litigation and regulatory affairs. In August, Caleb Barker, a former white-collar and government investigations associate at Squire Patton Boggs, also joined Bittrex’s U.S. ...