Karen Ubell, a former attorney for the Securities and Exchange Commission as well as former co-chair of the blockchain technology and tokenization group at Cooley, has joined Goodwin Procter as partner in its San Francisco office, the firm announced Tuesday. 

Ubell, who had been at Cooley for over four years and prior to that spent the previous six years at the SEC, said she was impressed with the level of investment the firm has put into its digital currency and blockchain technology practice.

Karen Ubell Karen Ubell of Goodwin Procter.