Sell-side counsel to Addicting Games in its $35 million sale.
We represented Addicting Games as sell-side counsel in its $35 million sale to publicly traded Enthusiast Gaming Holdings Inc. in 2021. Joel J.H. Funk led the matter.
Experience
Experience on the record.
The matters we can name, a selection we describe without names, and the capabilities behind the rest: deals, funds and structures for companies and the families behind them, wherever the capital has to go.
On the record
These matters are public record or named with our clients' permission. Everything else we have done stays where our clients want it: out of print.
A $13.9 million judgment in Vaden v. Simonsen.
Lead counsel for a trading-software developer in Illinois state court, obtaining a judgment of about $13.9 million against a former business partner in 2014 and pursuing enforcement through a Montana bankruptcy.
Outside corporate counsel to Revolution from 2016.
Outside corporate counsel to Revolution, a vertically integrated licensed cannabis operator, from 2016: company-level and transactional matters, license acquisition across Illinois, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Florida, and Michigan, and the growth from two Illinois cultivation facilities of about 150,000 square feet into one of the largest licensed operators in the nation at the time.
Regulatory and compliance counsel to Binance, Coinbase, Kraken, and OKX.
Regulatory and compliance counsel to digital-asset exchanges from 2015, Binance, Coinbase, Kraken and OKX among them: money-transmitter licensing and international structure, in the United States and abroad.
State tax matters for United, Southwest, and American Airlines.
Represented United Airlines, Southwest Airlines, and American Airlines before state taxing authorities.
Asset recovery after the collapse of Mt. Gox.
Corporate-side work in the recovery of assets after the 2014 collapse of Mt. Gox, once the world's largest bitcoin exchange.
An aerospace manufacturer's dealings with Ducommun, United, Boeing, Airbus, and SpaceX.
Advised one of the largest aircraft and aerospace manufacturing companies in the nation, unnamed at its request, in matters involving Ducommun, United Airlines, Boeing, Airbus, and SpaceX, and in investment from foreign investors and sovereign parties, 2018.
Selected matters
Described without names, from the firm's register. Each line is a matter the firm handled; none states a figure the record does not.
Structured a bitcoin-centered offshore investment fund for a digital-asset entrepreneur, evaluating jurisdictions from Anguilla to the Isle of Man and the Cayman Islands, with custody arrangements and KYC flows built with local counsel, 2015.
Built one of the first digital-asset fund structures in the Bahamas for early high-frequency trading clients, 2014 to 2015.
Represented high-frequency trading firms and their principals from 2014 across structuring, corporate, and litigation matters.
Advised a licensed money transmitter on a licensing program reaching 48 states, bank due diligence with a major commercial bank, and program-management agreements, 2019 to 2020.
Formed offshore company and trust structures, with wealth and tax structuring, for private clients across many jurisdictions, coordinating foreign bank account openings with local counsel and trustees, from 2014.
Restructured private-client holdings and their fiduciary arrangements in the years after the Panama Papers, from 2016, as disclosure regimes tightened worldwide.
Advised an SEC-registered investment adviser on the structuring of an open-ended, privately placed offshore fund, 2025.
Served as escrow agent and paymaster in cross-border medical-supply, sports, and entertainment transactions, repeatedly over the years, including closed supply transactions during the pandemic, 2020.
Acted as general counsel to a longevity-focused therapeutics company, including trademark protection of coined scientific terms and an FDA Right to Try inquiry coordinated with outside FDA counsel, 2020 to 2021.
General counsel and regulatory work for peptide, wellness, and longevity companies, from 2020.
Multistate cannabis licensing across Illinois, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Florida, and Michigan for a vertically integrated operator, and corporate counsel to other licensed operators, from 2015.
Represented a buyer in the acquisition of a Chicago commercial building for conversion into a men's health clinic, with acquisition financing, 2023.
Advised a growing international company on a business-expansion immigration strategy, including employer petitions and changes of status for key personnel, 2013.
Client names appear with permission. Each matter turned on its own facts; prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Most of the firm's work is confidential.
Capability profiles
Most of our consequential work is never seen. Deal terms stay private and names stay out of print. Rather than publish matters we cannot disclose, we describe the capabilities we bring to the engagements we run and the seat we typically hold at the table.
Read them as a map of where we operate: sell-side and buy-side M&A, sponsor and family-office capital, recapitalizations, carve-outs, cross-border structuring, and fund formation on the frontier.
Mergers & acquisitions, sell-side and buy-side.
Buy-side and sell-side deals across technology, healthcare, and industrials, from the first diligence request to the purchase agreement and the financing that funds it.
Fund formation and investment-management structuring.
Fund formation for sponsors, managers, and family offices: the vehicle, the offering documents, the adviser and commodity-pool analysis, and the governance that holds after the first close.
Cross-border carve-outs and recapitalizations.
Carve-outs and recapitalizations that cross a border: multi-jurisdiction structuring, transition-services arrangements, and continuation vehicles built with locally admitted counsel.
Digital-asset regulatory, token, and fund matters.
Token launches, custody and exchange relationships, and fund structures for digital-asset platforms and the funds behind them, mapped onto securities, commodities, and money-transmission rules before any of them turns into an enforcement problem.
Asset-protection and private-wealth structuring.
Asset-protection and private-wealth structures for principals and families: estate and succession planning, long-hold arrangements, and the trusts that carry a business's proceeds across a generation.
Securities, governance, and capital-markets counsel.
Public and private offerings of equity and debt, board and disclosure governance, and the securities work that runs underneath a company between raises.
Capability profiles available on request, subject to client confidentiality.
The shape of the firm
A sense of scale rather than a scoreboard. Chicago, London, and Dubai, with a partner network of independent firms across five continents.
More than 10,000 matters since 2013. Founded in 2013, Hart David Carson LLP is 63 attorneys led by two partners, with a bench of focused counsel named to your matter at engagement and a partner network of independent firms across five continents, drawn in matter by matter rather than listed on an org chart.
Who did the work. The partners' recognition and bar admissions sit on their pages: Joel J.H. Funk and Jonathan D. Herpy, Sr.
Counsel for the inflection point
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