Kuhn Venture Law LLC  ·  kvladvisory.com

David T.
Kuhn

Attorney  ·  Legal Strategist  ·  Original Research

General Counsel and transactional attorney with 12+ years across BigLaw structured finance and in-house executive roles at high-growth blockchain and AI companies. Writing at the intersection of digital asset regulation, securities law, and financial market structure.

Background

12+
Years of legal
practice
2×
General Counsel,
blockchain protocols
$5B+
Aggregate financings,
Fried Frank

Previously Senior Associate at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson and Alston & Bird in New York, representing clients such as Blackstone, JPMorgan, SL Green, and Starwood in structured real estate finance. Subsequently served as General Counsel at Ankr Network and Karate Combat, building legal functions from the ground up at each.

Barred in New York and Pennsylvania. CFA Institute Claritas Certificate. J.D., Boston College Law School. B.A. cum laude, University of Pennsylvania.

Selected Writing

March 2026 TCF Series · Part III tcframework.com
Token Continuity Framework (TCF White Paper)
Practitioner framework applying ground lease doctrine to token holder structural protections under U.S. securities law, anchored to the March 2026 SEC/CFTC joint interpretive release.
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March 2026 Event Risk Series · Part III eventrisk.ai
Event Contracts and the Liquidity Threshold: Risk Transfer, Sportsbook Exposure, and the Derivatives Case for Event Markets
Introduces the Liquidity-Constrained Event Risk Transfer Curve to evaluate when event contracts can facilitate economically meaningful hedging under derivatives law.
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Dec. 2025 TCF Series · Part II
From Disclosure to Design: Constraining Endogenous Risk in Structurally Subordinate Tokens
Extends the ground lease analogy to securities law's core concern and proposes a tiered token recognition framework drawing on leasehold mortgagee protection doctrine.
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Dec. 2025 TCF Series · Part I
Tokens Are Leases: Structural Subordination in Crypto's Dual Equity–Token Architecture
Argues that the dominant dual equity/token structure is economically equivalent to a ground lease, predictably subordinating token holders, and proposes a policy framework borrowed from ground-lease doctrine.
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Feb. 2026 Event Risk Series · Part II
The Financialization of Event Risk
Analyzes the structural evolution of sportsbooks from risk warehouses to risk distributors if prediction markets achieve legal durability and institutional scale.
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Feb. 2026 Event Risk Series · Part I
Prediction Markets: Risk Transfer vs. Risk Creation
Foundational essay arguing that the CFTC's jurisdiction over event contracts should turn on whether a contract transfers pre-existing economic risk or creates new speculative risk.
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Contact

Available for in-house counsel roles, fractional GC engagements, and advisory. Based in Palm Beach Gardens, FL — open to remote and South Florida opportunities.

david@kuhnventurelaw.com