Mike Selig, a former partner at Willkie Farr & Gallagher and a member of the firm's crypto practice, has been appointed chief counsel of the SEC's Crypto Task Force

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Mike Selig, a former partner at Willkie Farr & Gallagher and a member of the firm's crypto practice, has been appointed chief counsel of the SEC's Crypto Task Force

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12:00am, Monday, March 3, 2025

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Mike Selig, who was named chief counsel of the task force in a Monday announcement from the SEC, was previously a New York-based partner at white-shoe international law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher, where he was a member of the firm’s crypto practice. Before joining Willkie, Selig interned for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).
Selig was one of 14 staff members named in the Monday announcement. His colleagues include several crypto industry natives — Landon Zinda, former policy director at crypto think tank Coin Center, and Veronica Reynolds, a former attorney at Baker Hostetler LLP focused on NFTs and metaverse-related legal issues, both of whom will serve as senior advisors to the task force — as well as career SEC staff

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