Joanna Wasick is a litigation partner and leads BakerHostetler’s Crypto Asset Disputes team. She represents companies, founders, financial institutions and court-appointed fiduciaries in high-stakes, industry-defining disputes, with particular focus on digital assets, complex commercial litigation, emerging technologies and cross-border matters.
Joanna’s work in digital assets dates to 2014, when she began advising clients on securities law issues arising from bitcoin transactions. Since then, she has represented clients across the digital asset industry, advising and defending digital-native market participants and infrastructure providers in actions involving regulatory and compliance issues, complex discovery obligations, commercial disputes, Alien Tort Statute claims, JASTA claims, as well as common-law tort claims. She also represents clients in traditional financial markets, including in matters involving financial fraud, contract disputes, and asset recovery.
In addition to her litigation practice, Joanna counsels digital asset and blockchain clients on regulatory, compliance and risk-management issues. She is the editor and lead author of Decrypting Crypto: Digital Assets and Web3 Explained, a legal treatise published by Practising Law Institute, a frequent guest lecturer at Fordham University School of Law, and a regular speaker at leading digital asset and blockchain conferences, legal programs and industry events.
