Genova Burns To Serve As Local Counsel In BlockFi, Inc. Chapter 11 Proceedings

Genova Burns LLC is pleased to announce that it has been chosen by the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of BlockFi, Inc. to serve as Local Counsel in the Chapter 11 Bankruptcy proceedings pending in Trenton.

BlockFi, Inc. serves both retail and institutional clients relating to digital assets through web and mobile applications and provides hedge funds, market makers, proprietary trading firms, trading desks, cryptocurrency miners and exchanges with financing, trading and treasury solutions.

As of March 2022, BlockFi’s business volume was 23 billion dollars and it had approximately 15 billion dollars of deployable assets.

On this engagement, Genova Burns will be working with the national bankruptcy and cryptocurrency groups at Brown Rudnick, LLP, primary counsel to the Creditor’s Committee.

Daniel M. Stolz, Esq., Chair of Genova Burns’ Bankruptcy, Reorganization & Creditors’ Rights practice stated, “We are honored to be retained by the Creditor’s Committee in this landmark Chapter 11 case. Our team is looking forward to working diligently to provide creditors of BlockFi with the largest possible recovery”. James M. Burns, Esq., Managing Partner of Genova Burns stated, “This is another step towards firmly establishing Genova Burns as a key player in the bankruptcy and restructuring space, and as an emerging player in the world of cryptocurrency disputes”.

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