Criston Cicala Bio

Criston E. Cicala is a corporate, finance and banking attorney with more than two decades of both domestic and international experience. He focuses his multifaceted practice on providing banks and other financial institutions, corporations, private equity and credit funds, real estate developers, media companies and entrepreneurs with practical and strategic legal advice. Mr. Cicala regularly represents clients in complex matters involving structured finance, trade finance, securities and capital markets, private equity and credit, commercial lending, real estate finance and mergers and acquisitions He is a former principal investor and advisor in both private equity and real estate matters, providing him the unique perspective of having played a lead role in both the acquisitions and dispositions of assets, as well as having been involved in the day-to-day management of both real estate and corporate ventures. Mr. Cicala is a member of Duane Morris’ Digital Assets and Blockchain Group, a multidisciplinary group of attorneys providing a full suite of services to clients in the cryptocurrency, digital assets and blockchain industries, both domestically and internationally. He is a former principal investor and advisor in private equity and real estate, offering the unique perspective of having played a lead role in acquisitions and dispositions of assets, as well as being involved in the day-to-day management of real estate and corporate ventures. Mr. Cicala is a graduate of Tulane Law School (J.D., cum laude, 2000) and Vanderbilt University (B.A., 1996).