Paul Weiss, Cleary Gottlieb and Debevoise Line Up Behind Defendants in SEC Cryptocurrency Suit

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton have lined up to represent a pair of top executives at Ripple Labs Inc. in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit accusing the tech firm, its co-founder and CEO of raising more than $1.3 billion off the sale of unregistered digital coins.