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People: Benjamin Bathgate

Commercial Litigation Insights: Maybe Now the SEC Will Let Crypto Be: Will the SEC’s Crypto Task Force and the Crypto Czar’s Working Group Find Harmony?

Are the tides turning? Digital assets are slowly entering the conversation alongside traditional assets. What was once ethereal and somewhat elusive, operating outside the confines of the U.S. securities regime […]

WeirFoulds Partners Benjamin Bathgate and Jessica Stansfield featured by The Globe and Mail in article on cryptocurrency platform exploit

Partner Benjamin Bathgate, Chair of WeirFoulds’ Commercial Litigation Practice Group, and Partner Jessica Stansfield were featured by The Globe and Mail in an article written by Alexandra Posadzki on April […]

WeirFoulds recognized in the 2025 Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory

WeirFoulds is pleased to announce that 30 of our lawyers have been recognized across 21 different practice areas in the 2025 Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory. Each lawyer was selected based on […]

Canadian Medjedovic Indicted for DeFi Fraud in the Eastern District of New York: Rule of Law ‘2’, Code is Law ‘0’?

The ongoing saga of decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol fraud,[1] and in particular the exploitation of smart contract code[2] to enrich a bad actor at the expense of other users, has […]

Multiple WeirFoulds lawyers recognized in Lexology Index: Canada 2024

WeirFoulds is pleased to announce the firm has been recognized in the 2024 edition of Lexology Index: Canada, previously known as Who’s Who Legal: Canada. Since 1996, the guide has […]

WeirFoulds Partners Benjamin Bathgate and Jessica Stansfield comment on jury’s Mango Markets decision in Bloomberg Law

Partner Benjamin Bathgate, Chair of WeirFoulds’ Commercial Litigation Practice Group, and Partner Jessica Stansfield were quoted in an article written by Matthew Bultman for Bloomberg Law on April 22nd, 2024. The article overviews the Mango […]

Rule of Law ‘1’, Code is Law ‘0’: Eisenberg Convicted in Mango Markets Criminal Trial after He Shies Away from Testifying

In the fateful words of Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas Burnett: “Just because something is possible doesn’t make it legal”.[1] After an eight-day criminal trial in the U.S. District Court for […]

Commercial Litigation Insights: Securities Enforcement? But They’re Crypto Tokens, Not Shares…

Canadian and American regulators have made concerted efforts in the last year to definitively demonstrate that cryptocurrencies are under their securities purview and to accelerate aggressive enforcement proceedings. Yet, the […]

Cryptocurrency ‘Regulation by Enforcement’ as Hot as Ever: What’s to come from Securities Regulators in 2024?

Cryptocurrencies are becoming increasingly regulated under securities laws in Canada and the United States, often to the chagrin of those in control of crypto assets. In recent years, both Canadian […]

Postponement of Long-Awaited Mango Markets Criminal Trial on the Heels of SBF Guilty Verdict: What’s to Come?

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York (the “US DA”) was set to proceed to trial against Avraham Eisenberg on December 4, 2023[1] in relation to […]

Multiple WeirFoulds lawyers recognized in Who’s Who Legal: Canada 2023

WeirFoulds is pleased to announce that the firm has once again been recognized in Who’s Who Legal: Canada 2023. Since 1996, Who’s Who Legal has identified the foremost legal practitioners […]

WeirFoulds welcomes new partner Benjamin Bathgate to the firm as Chair of the Commercial Litigation Practice Group

WeirFoulds is pleased to announce that Benjamin Bathgate has joined the firm’s partnership as Chair of the Commercial Litigation Practice Group. As the newest member of the partnership, Ben is […]

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