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Blockchain & Smart Contracts
Advisory services for blockchain based programmable smart contracts.
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We are a New York City based law firm focused on Shareholder Rights, Intellectual Property, and Blockchain law. Our goal is to provide our clients with cost-effective, practical, and creative legal advice and services.
Attorneys
Gloria Kui Melwani
Partner
Anil M. Melwani
Partner
Michael C. Chan
Partner
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Anil M. Melwani
Anil is a founding partner of Melwani & Chan LLP. He has been practicing law since 2005 primarily in the areas of trademark law, copyright law, shareholder rights, and intellectual property litigation. Prior to founding Melwani & Chan LLP, Anil worked as in-house counsel for Royal Silk Direct, Inc. and as an associate with the Manhattan law firm Lee & Kelley LLP.
Anil is licensed to practice law in New York where he was born and raised. He received his Juris Doctorate from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law with a concentration in Intellectual Property Law, and his undergraduate degree from New York University in Music Technology.
Michael C. Chan
Michael is a founding partner of Melwani & Chan LLP. He is also a Software Developer and Legal Engineer for the blockchain company OpenLaw.io creating programamable smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain. Prior to founding Melwani and Chan LLP he worked at a clean tech start-up in Shanghai, China. Michael was formerly Associate Corporate Counsel at United Commercial Bank and East West Bank, a publicly traded California based bank. (NASDAQ: EWBC). He advised the bank on capital raises, SEC investigations, shareholder lawsuits, and regulatory compliance issues. He also worked extensively on complex loan sales and syndication, real estate workouts and REO sales. Michael started his legal career with the entertainment law firm Anthony Arther & Associates in New York City.
Michael is licensed to practice law in New York and Connecticut. He received his Juris Doctorate from Yeshiva University’s Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City and his B.S. in Anthropology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Gloria Kui Melwani
Gloria Kui Melwani is a partner at Melwani & Chan LLP. Gloria has expertise in complex class actions representing clients including institutional investors such as public and labor pension funds, labor health and welfare benefit funds, and private institutional investors who suffered losses due to corporate fraud. Her practice places an emphasis on securities litigation, shareholder derivative litigation, transactional litigation, and copyright, intellectual property & public domain protection.
Gloria is licensed to practice law in New York and New Jersey. She is a member of the New York State Bar Association, the New York City Bar Association, the Asian American Bar Association of New York, and a member of the Chamber Music Committee of the New York City Bar Association. She received her Juris Doctorate from Yeshiva University’s Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City and her undergraduate degree from New York University.
Gloria is also the co-founder of the Women’s Entrepreneurial Plaintiffs Lawyers Network (“wePLn”), a group for women attorneys to foster collaboration, business development,and career growth.
