Daverington PLLC was formed in 2016 to assist alternative asset managers, commodities merchants and institutional investors with their trading agreements, regulatory compliance and other legal matters involved in the global over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives and physical commodities trading markets.

In recent years our work has focused exclusively on the emerging digital assets sector, blockchain, distributed ledger technology applications, cryptocurrencies and peer-to-peer finance.

Kianga began her legal career as a Corporate Associate in the derivatives practice group at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP in New York City after graduating from Spelman College and the Yale Law School. Clients included the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (“ISDA”) and as ISDA’s U.S. Outside Counsel she coordinated the work of several sell-side working groups that published documentation and resolved legal, commercial, regulatory and operational issues facing derivatives markets, including for the then-emerging credit derivatives market and launch of the Euro.

In later roles Kianga gained extensive deal and transactional experience supporting the fixed-income derivatives, currencies/FX, derivatives prime brokerage and energy trading businesses at Goldman Sachs; derivatives and physical commodities trading at Lehman Brothers; and global commodities merchant trading businesses at Castleton Commodities International.

Kianga Ellis, Esq. (fka Kianga Daverington)

EDUCATION

Yale Law School ~J.D., Editor & Admissions Committee, The Yale Law Journal; Submissions Editor, Yale Journal of International Law

Spelman College ~ B.A., summa cum laude

BAR ADMISSION ~ New York, 1999

CURRENT ASSOCIATIONS

ACREinvest ~ Founder

PRIOR ASSOCIATIONS

BlockTower Capital ~ Operations Manager & Counsel

Castleton Commodities International LLC ~ Associate Director & Senior Contract Negotiator

Lehman Brothers, Inc. ~ Vice President & Senior Energy Counsel

Goldman, Sachs & Co. ~ Vice President & Assistant General Counsel

Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP ~ Associate