Risk Regulation & Enforcement in FinTech

Currently, Youli Lee serves as the Senior Legal Director over Global Investigations, Litigation, and Governance. In her capacity as global head, Ms. Lee and her team regularly advise the company on matters relating to criminal investigations, civil and criminal litigation, compliance, corporate compliance, and regulatory matters. Ms. Lee also collaboratively oversees marketing and product efforts as well.

Prior to joining Chainalysis, Ms. Lee was an Associate General Counsel with the Strategic Advocacy section at Coinbase. In her role leading Strategic Response, Ms. Lee handled all legal aspects of Coinbase’s incident response, routinely assembling and leading cross-functional teams from across the company. Additionally, Ms. Lee advised on issues from content-moderation policies to international legal issues, sanctions, intellectual property, and a wide variety of security issues.

Ms. Lee also served as Legal Counsel to the Biden-Harris Presidential Transition Team in the Office of Legal Policy. Prior to her service there, Ms. Lee was the Chief of the Policy and Legislation Division within the Office of the Chief Counsel for the Bureau of Industry and Security. While there, Ms. Lee led a team of attorneys and worked on cutting-edge policy initiatives and litigation that dealt with the intersection of national security and commerce in the United States.

Ms. Lee also served with distinction as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia. As a prosecutor in the Cyber Crime Section, Ms. Lee investigated and prosecuted cybercrime cases that included foreign-actor intrusions into U.S. companies and political organizations; bitcoin-exchange intrusions and money laundering by foreign actor(s); white-collar, bitcoin securities violations; international cryptojacking; and multiple large-scale, complex bitcoin, wire-fraud, and money laundering investigation. Ms. Lee also represented the United States in the Appellate Division, having briefed and argued close to 60 cases before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and the D.C. Court of Appeals. Additionally, Ms. Lee served in multiple trial sections of the U.S. Attorney’s Office and has tried over 40 bench and jury trials.

Ms. Lee was also adjunct faculty at the Boston University School of Law, where she developed and taught a criminal appeals class. In addition, Ms. Lee was the Senior Policy Advisor for a subsidiary of Feeding America and worked to develop national food-policy initiatives.

Ms. Lee has co-authored numerous articles including an article on the compelled use of biometric keys to unlock digital devices, which was published in the Department of Justice Journal of Federal Law and Practice, as well as an article on the need for a Select Committee on Terrorism, which was published in the John F. Kennedy School of Government’s Perspectives on Preparedness. Ms. Lee received her J.D. in 2001 from Boston University School of Law and her Bachelor of Science in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University in 1996.

Shona graduated from the University College Dublin with a Bachelor’s Degree in English and Spanish. She has a background in medical, insurance and financial administration. In her spare time, Shona loves to travel and enjoys planning trips all around the world.