Paul Grewal

Paul Grewal served as chief legal officer of Coinbase from 2020 to 2026, where he became one of the crypto industry's most prominent legal voices and now continues as an advisor to the company. At Coinbase he guided the exchange through its 2021 Nasdaq direct listing, led the defense against the SEC's 2023 lawsuit (dismissed in 2025), and backed the landmark Tornado Cash litigation that protected the right to use open source privacy software. Before Coinbase he spent four years as vice president and deputy general counsel at Facebook, and before that served nearly six years as a US magistrate judge in the Northern District of California, presiding over major Silicon Valley technology disputes. He holds an engineering degree from MIT and a JD from the University of Chicago.

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