CHRISTOPHER LAMB
Senior Associate
Chris Lamb advises on regulatory, market structure, and restructuring matters involving derivatives and commodities markets, digital assets, prediction markets, and emerging technologies. His practice focuses on CFTC regulation — including registration, exemption, and ongoing compliance — together with exchange and clearinghouse oversight, capital formation, operational resilience, and financial restructuring, and he serves as outside general counsel to fintech, digital asset, and AI companies that need regulatory and transactional judgment without the cost of a full-time in-house team.
Before joining Croke Fairchild Duarte & Beres, Chris practiced at a boutique AI-native law firm at the intersection of digital and traditional finance, where he advised digital assets, fintech, and AI companies on CFTC and SEC registration pathways and exemptive relief, market structure, event contracts, and tokenization. He also represented companies and individuals in regulatory investigations and enforcement matters and related civil litigation.
Chris previously served as Senior Counsel to a Commissioner at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, where he advised on derivatives market structure; designated contract market (DCM), derivatives clearing organization (DCO), swap execution facility (SEF), and introducing broker (IB) rules and regulations; event contracts and prediction markets; operational resilience; continuous (24/7) trading markets; and issues relating to artificial intelligence and emerging technologies. He worked on rulemakings, registration and self-certification reviews, enforcement, and interpretive matters, and engaged regularly with domestic and international exchanges, clearinghouses, intermediaries, and senior industry executives on market structure developments and regulatory policy affecting futures markets and related financial infrastructure.
Prior to his government service, Chris practiced in both the restructuring and digital asset groups of an Am Law 100 firm, where he represented debtors, creditors, and other stakeholders in complex chapter 11 cases, including matters involving digital asset platforms and other technology-driven businesses, and advised clients on regulatory classification, market structure, and capital formation issues affecting crypto, tokenization, and stablecoin offerings. Earlier, he served as a law clerk to the Honorable Meredith S. Grabill sitting in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.
Direct: 872.224.2903
PRACTICE AREAS
EDUCATION
- Emory University School of Law, J.D., Managing Editor of the Emory Bankruptcy Developments Journal
- University of Central Florida, B.A.
ADMISSIONS
- Florida
MEMBERSHIPS & ACTIVITIES
- Contributing author of the “Bankruptcy” chapter in Decrypting Crypto: Digital Assets and Web3 Explained (PLI Press, 2025).
CHRISTOPHER LAMB
Senior Associate
Direct: 872.224.2903
PRACTICE AREAS
EDUCATION
- Emory University School of Law, J.D., Managing Editor of the Emory Bankruptcy Developments Journal
- University of Central Florida, B.A.
ADMISSIONS
- Florida
MEMBERSHIPS & ACTIVITIES
- Contributing author of the “Bankruptcy” chapter in Decrypting Crypto: Digital Assets and Web3 Explained (PLI Press, 2025).
Chris Lamb advises on regulatory, market structure, and restructuring matters involving derivatives and commodities markets, digital assets, prediction markets, and emerging technologies. His practice focuses on CFTC regulation — including registration, exemption, and ongoing compliance — together with exchange and clearinghouse oversight, capital formation, operational resilience, and financial restructuring, and he serves as outside general counsel to fintech, digital asset, and AI companies that need regulatory and transactional judgment without the cost of a full-time in-house team.
Before joining Croke Fairchild Duarte & Beres, Chris practiced at a boutique AI-native law firm at the intersection of digital and traditional finance, where he advised digital assets, fintech, and AI companies on CFTC and SEC registration pathways and exemptive relief, market structure, event contracts, and tokenization. He also represented companies and individuals in regulatory investigations and enforcement matters and related civil litigation.
Chris previously served as Senior Counsel to a Commissioner at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, where he advised on derivatives market structure; designated contract market (DCM), derivatives clearing organization (DCO), swap execution facility (SEF), and introducing broker (IB) rules and regulations; event contracts and prediction markets; operational resilience; continuous (24/7) trading markets; and issues relating to artificial intelligence and emerging technologies. He worked on rulemakings, registration and self-certification reviews, enforcement, and interpretive matters, and engaged regularly with domestic and international exchanges, clearinghouses, intermediaries, and senior industry executives on market structure developments and regulatory policy affecting futures markets and related financial infrastructure.
Prior to his government service, Chris practiced in both the restructuring and digital asset groups of an Am Law 100 firm, where he represented debtors, creditors, and other stakeholders in complex chapter 11 cases, including matters involving digital asset platforms and other technology-driven businesses, and advised clients on regulatory classification, market structure, and capital formation issues affecting crypto, tokenization, and stablecoin offerings. Earlier, he served as a law clerk to the Honorable Meredith S. Grabill sitting in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.