Uniswap has a new chief legal officer, and the legal head at Digital Currency Group has moved on to expand blockchain capabilities at a law firm.
Katherine Minarik joined Uniswap from Coinbase, where she was vice president of legal and deputy general counsel. She is set to replace Marvin Ammori, who held the decentralized exchange’s CLO post since 2020.
Ammori is set to shift later this year to a part-time role focused on global public policy for DeFi, he said in an X post — adding that he made the decision to spend more time with his young family.
The now former CLO called Minarik the “key architect” of Coinbase’s litigation strategy and noted her background at litigation firm Bartlit Beck. The publicly traded crypto exchange has been entrenched in a legal battle with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a year.
The SEC sent a Wells notice — which typically precedes enforcement actions — to Uniswap in April….
