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Former CFTC Senior Advisor Danielle Abada Joins Mayer Brown as Partner

On October 12, PR Newswire reported that Mayer Brown announced Danielle Abada has joined the firm's Capital Markets practice as a partner in the New York office. She comes from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), where she served as a Senior Special Advisor in the Market Participants Division, previously acting as a Senior Advisor to CFTC Commissioner Kristin N. Johnson. During her tenure at the CFTC, she provided advice on complex legal, regulatory, and policy matters affecting CFTC-regulated entities and advanced the Commission's priorities in areas such as crypto assets and blockchain technology, prediction markets and event contracts, and artificial intelligence. In her prior private practice, she represented financial institutions and fintech companies on regulatory, compliance, trading, and legislative matters, and provided counsel on the application of emerging technologies such as distributed ledger, digital assets, and artificial intelligence, with clients including banks, swap dealers, broker-dealers, exchanges, asset and investment management firms, hedge funds, and proprietary trading firms. Jon Van Gorp, Chairman of Mayer Brown, stated that her experience at the CFTC will help clients navigate the rapidly evolving regulatory landscape for derivatives and digital assets.

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