Abradat Kamalpour

Partner, Jones Day

Abradat Kamalpour has extensive experience in financial technology (fintech), blockchain-structured finance, and debt capital markets. He has been at the forefront of using blockchain-based technologies and cryptocurrencies on various transactions, including building out blockchain-based exchanges, tokenization platforms, and digital asset issuances as well as the creation and legal build-out of cryptocurrencies, crypto-based payment systems, and related app offerings, which includes acting for a multibillion-dollar-backed private equity group on an international crypto exchange and cryptocurrency offering that will be made available across various international markets.

Kamalpour is the architect of the Jones Day FinAccelerate program, which was named by the National Law Journal in its 2023 list of Legal Technology Trailblazers. In addition, he has been recognized as a Who's Who Legal Thought Leaders: Fintech & Blockchain (2021-2024) and for banking and finance law by Best Lawyers (2017-2024) and is the winner of the Best FinTech lawyer and law firm by the London FinTech & Sukuk Summit.

Kamalpour has acted on and structured numerous complex-structured financing transactions and market-leading financings for global financial institutions, including Merrill Lynch, J.P. Morgan, Fortress, Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, Nomura, and Goldman Sachs. He has written extensively on fintech-related legal matters, including articles on cryptocurrencies and digital assets for the Talking Legal section of City A.M. (a leading London financial newspaper). He was also the founder and architect of a fintech accelerator program for another international law firm in London.

Kamalpour is a member of the California bar and a Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales. He has earned a bachelor of applied science with honors in construction management from RMIT University and a bachelor of laws with honors from Monash University, both in Melbourne, Australia, and completed the Executive Education Program in Corporate Governance from the University of Cambridge. He speaks English and Farsi.