Alexandra Levin focuses her practice on corporate & securities law, real estate matters, digital assets including cryptocurrency and blockchain, services for start-ups and investors, and cross-border transactions in Israel, Europe, and China.
Alexandra started her career practicing U.S. corporate & securities law in London at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and later at White & Case in London and New York. She has advised clients in the acquisition and disposition of corporate assets, raising capital including international private placements and public offerings, and corporate governance and securities matters.
Alexandra has a wealth of experience in real estate matters, handling real estate transactions in the law firm setting, and also having co-founded an alternative real estate investment fund, where she managed and deployed institutional funds for five years. Alexandra has represented institutional lenders, syndicates, governments, finance companies, real estate funds, and private investors in connection with commercial, hotel, airport cargo and residential real estate financing transactions, joint ventures, investments, acquisitions, leasing, and energy finance. She has also negotiated many commercial lease terms and contracts.
Alexandra has a vast amount of experience in the digital assets space, having co-founded crypto/digital assets and blockchain technology practice groups at two law firms in New York, providing investors, start-ups, and others in North America, Europe, and Asia with sophisticated legal advice in securities, real estate, intellectual property, banking, tax, finance, corporate, investment funds, employment, and litigation matters.
Alexandra co-founded a startup, Womin.io, a blockchain-powered marketplace for employers and female freelancers to engage directly on a peer-to-peer basis. She is the co-creator of the first all-female speaker blockchain conference (which took place on Mother’s Day 2018 as part of New York Blockchain Week) and the Womin’s Lounge at Consensus 2019.
Alexandra has also been a mentor and judge in several academic and private acceleration and incubation programs such as the Wharton Startup Challenge, The Columbia | IBM Blockchain Accelerator and the Alchemist Blockchain Techstars Accelerator. Alexandra served on the Board of the Foundation for International Blockchain and Real Estate Expertise. Most recently, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Alexandra volunteered to launch the first angel investor network of alumnae of a women’s college to support female-founded start-ups. She currently serves on the Board of the Friend at Hand Foundation, which gifts therapeutic dogs to Israeli families which were traumatized by the October 7, 2023 attacks.
Prior to attending law school, Alexandra worked in Jerusalem in the offices of Member of Parliament Dr. Yuri Shtern and the Yisrael B’Aliya Parliamentary Party.
Alexandra is regularly invited to speak at conferences around the world, having been recognized among the top blockchain influencers and named one of the “Top 50 Most Daring Entrepreneurs of 2018” by
Entrepreneur Magazine.