Grant P Fondo

Grant Fondo, a former Assistant US Attorney in the Northern District of California, is a partner in the firm's Securities Litigation & White Collar Defense group. Grant also formerly served on the firm’s Executive Committee in addition to serving as founder and Co-Chair of the firm’s Digital Currency & Blockchain practice and currently serves as Co-Chair of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act practice. He represents technology, fintech, blockchain, digital currency, private equity, venture capital, and individual clients in a wide range of regulatory and contested matters.

Grant has significant experience conducting trials and representing individual and corporate clients regarding governmental investigations and enforcement actions. He focuses his practice on white collar criminal defense, blockchain and digital currency, securities and class action litigation, federal and state regulatory matters including before the DOJ, SEC, CFTC, FTC, State Attorneys General, District Attorneys, and FinCEN, cybersecurity and privacy matters, internal investigations, and commercial disputes, and often advises boards on a variety of matters.

Grant is recognized by Chambers USA for his White Collar Defense practice and ranked as a leading lawyer by Chambers FinTech for his work in blockchain and cryptocurrency and crypto-asset disputes. Grant’s clients note that he has “a very strong nose for business and is ultra-sophisticated when it comes to the commercial aspects of the practice of law in the FinTech space.” Grant has also been recognized for his work by publications such The Legal 500 US, Daily Journal, The National Law Journal, and US News Best Lawyers and has received numerous awards and features such as the Am Law Litigation Daily 2023: “Litigator of the (Past) Week Shout Out” for his successful defense of a major US cryptocurrency exchange and by The American Lawyer as “Litigator of the Week” for successful defense at trial of former J.P. Morgan Securities LLC analyst Ashish Aggarwal on 30 counts of criminal conspiracy, insider trading and wire fraud charges.

JD, 1993

University of Virginia School of Law (Omicron Delta Kappa - National Honor Society)

BA, 1990

University of Vermont (cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Alpha Theta - National History Honor Society)