Jeffrey Andrew Smith Lawyer Reviews & Ratings - Washington

Jeffrey Andrew Smith Bio
Mr. Jeff Smith is a highly experienced securities, tax, business, M&A, regulatory compliance, digital assets, capital markets, and FinTech attorney with over 26 years of experience strengthening the legal and compliance functions of financial services companies, investment advisers, broker-dealers, digital asset companies, family offices, technology companies, and investment vehicles. He has represented companies at all stages of maturity with their legal and compliance needs related to capital and debt raising efforts via private and public offerings. He has also served as Chief Legal Officer and Chief Compliance Officer for many companies while also working in the Director of Enforcement’s office at the Securities and Exchange Commission and serving as Investigative Counsel for President Obama at the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission. Mr. Smith also serves on public company boards and was highly instrumental in facilitating the merger between Digital World Acquisition Corp and Trump Media & Technology Group, resulting in Trump Media becoming a publicly traded, well-resourced company. Mr. Smith also advises presidents, heads of parliament and ministers throughout Africa as part of his work in international economic development and is an expert in tax structuring and asset preservation planning. He has also been a pioneer in the development of tradable fractional and partitioned interests in rarities and real world asset tokenization as a co-founder of RarityX.. CREDENTIALS