Ex-CFTC Chair, ‘Crypto Dad’ Giancarlo Joins Willkie Farr (1)

Christopher Giancarlo, the former chairman of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission and a leading figure in cryptocurrency regulation, has joined Willkie Farr & Gallagher as a senior counsel in New York.

Giancarlo had left the body that regulates futures, options and swaps derivatives markets when his five-year term expired in July. He had served as chairman since President Trump nominated him to the post in mid-2017. President Obama first nominated him as a CFTC commissioner in 2014.

Giancarlo oversaw the first bitcoin futures products entering the market. He’s spoken widely about cryptocurrency, while many other regulators have stayed largely ...