The Crypto Council for Innovation, whose members include the crypto exchange Coinbase, Fidelity, Block, Andreessen Horowitz, Gemini and Paradigm, has hired Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld.
Sidley Austin has represented Hikvision since 2018 but had been availing itself of FARA’s Lobbying Disclosure Act exemption, the spokesperson told PI, and registered its work under more opaque domestic lobbying laws.