Jai is a cofounder and Chief Legal Officer of Lightspark and a Fellow at the Berkeley Center for Law and Business. Before Lightspark, she spent 11 years at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, the last five as a partner in the firm’s Financial Institutions Group and a leader of its fintech and cryptocurrency practice. She has experience in a wide range of financial regulatory matters, including digital assets and cryptocurrencies, markets regulation, banking regulation, derivatives regulation, and payments. She holds a JD from Duke University School of Law and a BA in Chemistry from Cornell University.
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Jai R Massari is not teaching any Law courses in Spring 2024.
Courses During Other Semesters
| Semester | Course Num | Course Title |  Teaching Evaluations | Fall 2023 | 249.7 sec. 001 | Introduction to the New Financial Regulation | View Teaching Evaluation |
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MVP: Davis Polk’s Jai Massari
Lecturer Jai R. Massari led regulatory advice for financial services firm Galaxy Digital as it acquired crypto custodian BitGo for $1.2 billion — the crypto sector’s first $1 billion-plus deal — earning her a spot as one of Law360’s 2021 Fintech MVPs.