Erika Federis

Law Clerk

about

overview

Before joining Leon Alcala’s Public Finance practice, Erika was an Associate in the Banking & Finance practice of a large international law firm in London, UK. At her prior firm, Erika worked on a broad range of domestic and cross-border financing matters on both Borrower and Lender side, including corporate and leveraged finance deals, as well as venture debt and alternative financing transactions for specialist financial technology companies.

As part of her prior firm’s Banking & Finance team’s financial technology sub-practice, Erika also worked across a wide-ranging scope of digital asset-related matters and acted for a variety of high-profile industry participants. Her work included advising clients on the financial regulatory framework for digital assets in the UK, fundraising and crypto asset lending transactions, as well as crypto asset-specific M&A transactions.

Erika joined Leon Alcala’s Public Finance practice as a Law Clerk and is aiming to become a dual UK and U.S. licensed attorney in the near future. She is anticipating becoming admitted to the State Bar of Texas, pending successful completion of the Texas Bar Exam.

Memberships

Solicitors Regulation Authority of England and Wales

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Education

  • University of Law, Bristol, LPC MSc in Law, Business and Management
  • University of Exeter, Bachelor of Laws, LLB

Practice Areas

Public Finance

seminars & presentations

  • The Future of Digital Assets & Fintech (Kings College, London)
  • NFTs: the Legal Lowdown (NFT London)
  • FintechPanel – Exploring Trends in Fintech in 2022, We Are Tech Women (One Tech World Conference)
  • Payments: payment method innovation in the gaming industry (SiGMA Europe)
  • Can DeFi regulation even be possible? (CryptoAM DeFi & Digital Inclusion Online Summit)
  • The Law of Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (The Wired Wig Podcast)

articles & publications

  • Crypto and Digital Assets Markets, Sweet & Maxwell, Crypto and Digital Assets Law and Regulation 1st Edition
  • NFTs, Sweet & Maxwell, Crypto and Digital Assets Law and Regulation 1st Edition
  • Jurisdiction Chapters: United Kingdom (Global Legal Insights, Blockchain & Cryptocurrency Regulation 2023)
  • Regulatory Intelligence: UK Crypto Regulatory Framework (Thomson Reuters)
  • My brush with the digital art goldrush (Quoted by journalist Harry Wallop for the Daily Mail)
  • Blockchain and Tokenization in Digital Asset Issuance (Fintechs, Bancos Digitais e Meios de Pagamento)
  • Crypto regulations in the United Kingdom: are we there yet? (Cointelegraph)
  • Crypto Regulation in 2021: The Piecemeal Approach & New Winds (Quoted by Simon Chandler, Cryptonews)
  • The Travel Rule – Revolutionising the Cryptocurrency Regulatory Framework (Blockchain News)
  • Payments on the blockchain – the potential for change (Medium)
  • Stablecoins: are we any closer? (Fintech Direct, Top 10 most read articles in 2020)

reported cases

honors

  • Silver Award, City Wealth Powerwomen Awards 2023, Category: FinTech/Crypto Innovation (UK)
  • Computer Weekly, Most Influential Women in UK Tech: 2022 and 2023 Longlist
  • Wirex, Rising Women in Crypto: 2020 and 2021 Longlist

civic & community involvement

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