Kimberly Prior

Practice Areas

Kimberly Prior is a member of the Financial Services Practice Group and Co-Chair of the firm’s Digital Assets and Blockchain Technology Group. She specializes in regulatory, transactional, corporate, and enforcement matters for domestic and international financial services firms and businesses, including banks, broker-dealers, investment advisers, and private equity funds. Kimberly also advises financial institutions, FinTechs, and other businesses regarding regulatory, licensing, corporate, and compliance issues in the FinTech, digital asset, and blockchain technology space.

Kimberly advises governmental and regulatory officials on digital asset technology and regulation, and regularly speaks on regulatory issues affecting the financial industry. Since 2018, Kimberly has taught a popular course on the regulation of blockchain and digital assets at the University of Miami School of Law. Additionally, she is the co-author of Digital Assets and Blockchain Technology: US Law and Regulation (Elgar 2020), a first-of-its-kind legal textbook that examines the legal and regulatory approaches regarding the most important issues impacting the blockchain space.

Kimberly is a member of the firm’s Bank Receivership Task Force, created in March 2023.

She previously served as an adjunct professor at the University of Miami School of Law, teaching an advanced seminar focused on current issues in financial institution mergers and acquisitions. Kimberly is the co-author of a chapter on recent developments in cross-border securities law and is former general counsel to the Financial & International Business Association.

Professional Memberships

- Former General Counsel and Co-Chair of the Legal Regulatory Affairs Committee, Financial & International Business Association (FIBA)

- Former Chair, Legal and Regulatory Affairs Committee, Financial & International Business Association (FIBA)

- Active Member, Orange Bowl Committee

- Member, The Digital Chamber, Token Alliance and Consumer Innovation Working Groups

Publications

- Co-author, “Classifying Creditors in Digital Asset Bankruptcy Cases,” Bloomberg Law (September 2022)

- Co-author, “Recovering Digital Assets in Chapter 11 Bankruptcy,” Bloomberg Law (July 2022)

- Co-author, “El Salvador’s ‘Bitcoin Law’ Forces Governments and Businesses to Contend with Digital Assets,” Global Banking & Finance Review (September 2021)

- Co-author, Digital Assets and Blockchain Technology: US Law and Regulation, Edward Elgar Publishing (2020)

- Co-author, “The Cross-Border Securities Business: Recent Changes and Continuing Uncertainties,” Inside the Minds: New Developments in Securities Law (2015 ed.)

- Kimberly Prior mentioned in articles on bank deal: “Espirito Santo Bank in deal to be sold to Venezuelan group,” South Florida Business Journal (January 5, 2015) and “3 details on the Venezuelan group buying Espirito Santo,” South Florida Business Journal (May 11, 2015)