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Ivo Entchev

ivo@baileyduquette.com
T.: +1 212.658.1946; Ext. 218
New York

Ivo is a partner in Bailey Duquette’s New York office and co-chair of its international arbitration group. He represents companies and individuals in a variety of commercial and dispute-related matters in the technology, financial, and creative industries in the United States and internationally.

Ivo specializes in the legal and policy issues affecting the blockchain industry and is legal and regulatory advisor to Youbi Capital, a global digital asset VC and accelerator. 

Ivo’s clients have included leading content creators, entertainers, investors, and business innovators such as:

  • Digital broadcaster VICE Media Group;

  • Digital media brand and YouTube collective Yes Theory;

  • International popstar Justin Bieber and Justin Bieber Brands;

  • Food delivery platform Postmates;

  • Home sharing platform Airbnb;

  • Boutique hospitality chain The Standard Hotel; and

  • Online fashion retailer MOBS Design.

Ivo acts as lead counsel in a range of complex litigation and arbitration matters. Those matters have included: 

  • Five prominent U.S. technology companies in Airbnb’s successful Fourth Amendment challenge of New York City’s mandatory data-sharing ordinance;

  • A private equity investor in an international arbitration against the issuer of unregistered cryptographic tokens;

  • Multiple former executives of a fintech unicorn in a federal court action involving theft of idea claims;

  • A media company in an international arbitration against a commercial counterparty; and

  • A Canadian consumer products company in an international arbitration against its U.S. manufacturer.

Ivo routinely offers general United States legal support to family offices and foreign law firms, and he devotes part of his practice to pro bono and public interest matters.  

Ivo is President of the Canadian American Bar Association (CABA), an associational forum and voice for the cross-border legal community. In that role, he has overseen CABA’s advocacy efforts before the Canadian and United States governments on a range of cross-border legal topics, and its legal and policy research into the extraterritorial exercise of democratic rights. Those activities have included:

  • CABA’s intervention before the Supreme Court of Canada in a successful constitutional challenge of an electoral regime preventing 1.4 million expatriate Canadians from voting in Canadian elections;

  • CABA’s intervention before the Supreme Court of Canada in an appeal examining the validity Uber’s transnational arbitration agreements;

  • CABA’s participation in public hearings before the United States and Canadian governments regarding the United States-Canada-Mexico free trade agreement (formerly, NAFTA); and

  • CABA’s preparation with an academic partner of a comprehensive policy study published in the Dalhousie Law Journal on the extraterritorial transmission of Canadian citizenship.

Prior to joining Bailey Duquette, Ivo was an attorney at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan. Following law school, he clerked for the Honorable Justice Marshall E. Rothstein of the Supreme Court of Canada.

Education 

New York University School of Law (LL.M., Vanderbilt Scholar, 2011)
McGill University Faculty of Law (LL.B./B.C.L., highest distinction, 2008)
University of Toronto (B.A., 2004) 

Bar Admission

U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
New York
Ontario 

Clerkships

The Hon. Marshall E. Rothstein, Supreme Court of Canada

Publications

It’s Time for the Feds to Define Digital Commodities, Cointelegraph (Oct. 14, 2022)

Google Supreme Court Case Pits Rule of Law against Free Speech, The Globe & Mail (Dec. 11, 2016)


Judicious Restraint: The Life and Law of Justice Marshall E. Rothstein, Supreme Court Law Review (LexisNexis: 2016)


State Incapacity and Sovereign Immunity in International Arbitration, (2014) 26 Singapore Acad. of Law Journal 942 Special Issue (Conflict of Laws in Arbitration)


A Response-Dependent Theory of Precedent, Journal of Law & Phil. (2011)

Speaking Engagements

Panelist, Blockchain Regulatory Market, Weve Accelerator, Australian Consulate, New York, Jun. 24, 2022.

Panelist, Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Disputes, New York State Bar Association (Dispute Resolution Section), New York, Jan. 27, 2022.

Panelist, Blocking Third Party Content in Google v. Equustek – Worldwide injunctions and freedom of speech in the internet context, Torys LLP, Toronto, Dec. 1, 2016
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Moderator, Lifting the Corporate Veil in the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments and Arbitral Awards: Approaches in the United States and Canada, Dorsey & Whitney LLP, New York, April 20, 2016

Panelist, Diaspora Democracy: Comparative Study of Ex-Patriate Voting Rights, Univ. of Ottawa, Oct. 19, 2016 

Comment

Law.com, “Canadian Lawyers in US Worry Amid Closed Borders, Travel Bans and Tougher Immigration Rules,” May 15, 2020.

Forbes, “Canadian Expats in the U.S. Win Right to Vote Back Home,” January 16, 2019.

Law360, “Smart Contracts May Yield Unique Solutions in Arbitration,” May 8, 2018.

Fortune, “Why Google, Facebook, and Amazon Should Worry About Europe,” July 20, 2017.

TP Week, “Transatlantic Ties Smoulder as Ireland Set to Collect 15 Bln from Apple,” July 2017.

Forbes, “US Expats Vote while Canadian Expats Fight,” November 4, 2016.