ASKramer Law LLC

Founding Member: Andrea S. Kramer

Head Office: Chicago, Illinois, USA

Firm Overview

ASKramer Law LLC is a boutique law firm established by BigLaw veteran, Andie Kramer, in 2023. We provide legal counsel to clients managing multiple, complex risks in high-stakes transactions and trading environments. The firm serves public, private, and nonprofit clients, including three of the Fortune Global 500. ASKramer Law is a woman-owned business certified by WBENC.

Main Areas of Practice

ASKramer Law provides integrated legal counsel on regulatory, governance, commercial, and tax matters, delivering incisive advice on US financial products law. We marshal extensive experience in securities, commodities, derivatives, digital assets, and emerging asset classes of all types; working primarily for finance and energy companies that are headquartered or do business in the United States. Our integrated, commonsense approach to complex business challenges ensures that we are a strategic partner of choice for our sophisticated clients.

International Work

ASKramer Law is a national firm focused on US Federal law, primarily for clients that are headquartered or do business in the United States. We also work for clients in Canada, the United Kingdom, Central and South America, several offshore locations, and globally. Please contact us to discuss your specific jurisdictional requirements.

Practice Areas and Offices

Regulatory 

Legislative and Regulatory Policy; Finance; FinTech and Digital Assets; Energy Production and Distribution; Renewables and Emissions; Weather Risk Management; Dodd Frank Compliance.

Governance 

Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC); Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG); Climate Risk Management; Policies and Procedures; Board Oversight; IRS Audits, Appeals, Tax Controversy, and Defense.

Commercial 

Fund Establishment; ISDA, Custom Derivatives, and Digital Assets Documentation; Futures and Cleared Derivatives; EEI and NAESB Masters; Securities Lending; Repos and Reverse Repos; Netting Agreements.

Taxation 

Financial Products; Energy Trading; FinTech and Digital Assets; Private Wealth; Charitable Contributions; IRS Audits, Appeals, Tax Controversy, and Defense.

We work primarily with clients in the following industries: Finance, Digital Assets, Energy and Climate.

We offer a niche practice focus on, and deep background in weather derivatives.

Founding member, Andrea S. Kramer, is a thought leader on regulatory, tax, commercial, and governance matters that arise in traditional and DeFi environments. She is co-author of Financial Products: Taxation, Regulation and Design (CCH, fourth edition, 2024 version). A 4,000-page treatise, the book has been updated annually for more than 30 years, and cited more than 120 times by courts, by government agencies, and in Congressional communications.

Offices

1832 W. Race Ave., Chicago, IL 60622-6246

www. askramerlaw.com

(312) 451-5990

[email protected]