Jason Gottlieb

Mr. Gottlieb is a partner with Morrison Cohen. His practice focuses on regulatory enforcement, litigation, and arbitration relating to cryptocurrency, securities, commodities, futures and derivatives, and structured finance. Mr. Gottlieb principally defends companies and individuals in the digital assets space, in investigations and enforcement actions conducted by governmental or self-regulatory agencies. He also regularly advises U.S. and foreign companies on blockchain and cryptocurrency law relating to litigation and regulatory risk issues.

He is ranked in Chambers Band 1 for his digital assets disputes practice, and in Band 3 for his blockchain practice more generally. He was also named to The National Law Journal’s inaugural list of Cryptocurrency, Blockchain and Fintech Trailblazers. Mr. Gottlieb has been widely published and quoted in the media for his cryptocurrency and blockchain expertise, including for CNN, CNBC, Bloomberg, Fortune, The National Law Journal, New York Law Journal, Law360, The Real Deal, Forbes, Coindesk, a one-on-one “fireside chat” with SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce, and many more. Mr. Gottlieb is also the principal author of the Morrison Cohen Cryptocurrency Litigation Tracker, a publicly-available, comprehensive resource that follows regulatory actions and pronouncements, private litigation, and other events of interest in the cryptocurrency space. In each regulatory enforcement matter, he brings a practical, business-friendly approach to protecting his client’s economic and reputational interests. When necessary, Mr. Gottlieb is fully ready to litigate, and has done so – for example, winning dismissal of an SEC case in federal district court, a victory later sustained by the Supreme Court of the United States. In his litigation practice, he regularly defends securities issuers, trading companies, cryptocurrency companies, manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies, real estate entities, banks, hedge funds, private equity funds and individuals in a host of different areas, including securities, EB5 financing, real estate, structured transactions, partnership disputes and intellectual property. Prior to joining Morrison Cohen, Mr. Gottlieb was an attorney at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP and Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP.