Union Square Ventures Adds First Top Lawyer
“Union Square Ventures LLC, which scored big with an investment in newly public cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Global Inc., has hired its first-ever general counsel,” reports Brian Baxter in Bloomberg Law’s US Law Week.
“Samson Mesele, who spent the past half-dozen years as a corporate associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, confirmed in an email to Bloomberg Law that he became the New York-based venture capital firm’s first legal chief last month.”
“USV, co-founded by partners Fred Wilson and Brad Burnham, invested $2.5 million in Coinbase back in 2013. Coinbase, now the largest U.S. cryptocurrency exchange, saw its valuation soar past $100 billion following a direct listing in April on the Nasdaq exchange.”
