Angela Angelovska-Wilson

DLx Law Managing Partner Angela Angelovska-Wilson is an early distributed ledger technology adopter and a leading authority in the evolving global legal and regulatory landscape surrounding distributed ledger technology and smart contracts. Angela is based in Washington, D.C., where she actively advances the interests of the industries she serves. With decades of experience in private practice and having served in a variety of roles in an array of startup ventures (as an employee, entrepreneur, and adviser), she has been consistently recognized among the top digital assets and financial technology attorneys in the United States.

Angela helped found DLx Law in 2018 and is also a cofounder of Sila Inc., an innovative technology company. She also served as the Chief Legal & Compliance Officer of Digital Asset and was a member of its founding team. Before joining Digital Asset, Angela was a partner at Reed Smith, where she regularly advised clients on the implementation of new technologies in the financial services sector and the complex regulatory schemes involved with the development, creation, marketing, sale and servicing of various financial services and products. Before Reed Smith, Angela spent most of her career in various roles at Latham & Watkins, where she was recognized by The Legal 500 US among the top finance attorneys in the United States.

Practice Areas:

• General commercial transactions and corporate practices

• Banking and financial services regulations

• Consumer privacy laws and regulations

• Cross-jurisdictional comparative law

• Digital and traditional payments systems and transactions

• Business and enterprise structures

• Consumer finance and user/consumer protections

• Financial privacy and data protection

• Organization governance and operational strategies

• Sanctions, anti-money laundering (AML), and counter-financing of terrorism (CFT)

• Cryptocurrency token projects

• Tokenization of real-world assets (RWAs)

• Financial technology applications and innovative financial products

• Regulatory compliance and risk management