Kirsten Albers-Fiedler has extensive experience advising founders and emerging growth technology companies on the full spectrum of product, regulatory, corporate, and transactional matters. She focuses her practice on representing blockchain, cryptocurrency, and other emerging technology companies, having counseled clients on matters ranging from venture capital financings and securities law compliance to token issuances and digital asset classification.
Kirsten most recently served as an associate at a corporate law firm, where she counseled clients on transactional matters at every stage of growth from idea through exit, including corporate formation, corporate governance, venture capital financings, general corporate issues, and M&A transactions. Kirsten has served as Chief Legal & Operations Officer at two technology companies — Social Money, Inc. and Legaler Pty. Ltd. — where she advised on pre-seed investment, SAFEs, blockchain-based token issuances, NFT regulatory frameworks, and virtual currency licensing. Her in-house experience also includes time as a Law Associate and Legal Engineer at ConsenSys, which builds infrastructure and developer tools for the Ethereum ecosystem, where she advised on digital asset securities law and exempt offerings under Regulation D and Regulation S. Kirsten also served as Vice-Chair of the Legal Advisory Working Group at the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, where she moderated discussions on blockchain regulation with leaders including SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce.
Earlier in her career, she structured impact investment transactions at The Nature Conservancy’s investment unit, NatureVest, and interned with the Division of Enforcement at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Kirsten earned her A.B., magna cum laude, from Georgetown University, her J.D. from The George Washington University Law School, and her LL.M. in Law & Entrepreneurship from Duke University School of Law.
She is admitted to the bars of the District of Columbia and New York, and is proficient in German.
