Andrew M. Hinkes

Andrew M. Hinkes is a partner with K&L Gates’s Payments, Banking Regulation, and Consumer Financial Services group and co-chair of the firm’s Digital Assets industry group in Miami. He also is an adjunct professor at the NYU Stern Business School and the NYU School of Law, where he teaches “Digital Currency, Blockchains, and the Future of the Financial Services Industry.” Since 2019, Mr. Hinkes has been involved in law reform, serving as an adviser for the Uniform Law Commission Uniform Commercial Code and Emerging Technologies Digital Assets Working Group, and an Observer to the UNIDROIT Working Group on Digital Assets and Private Law. He also is a co-chair of the ABA Business Section Uniform Commercial Code Emerging Technology Subcommittee. In 2020, Mr. Hinkes co-authored Digital Assets and Blockchain Technology: U.S. Law and Regulation, a leading textbook covering legal and regulatory approaches to digital assets and related technology, published by Elgar. He was nominated as one of Coindesk’s Most Influential People in Blockchain in 2017. Mr. Hinkes received his A.B. cum laude in 2000 from Washington University in St. Louis and his J.D. cum laude in 2005 from the University of Miami School of Law.