About Alexa Warner

Alexa Warner represents financial institutions, investment firms, funds and exchanges in litigation, arbitration and regulatory enforcement matters. Her work involves disputes and advisory matters relating to commodities, derivatives, digital assets, securities, event contracts and prediction markets. Alexa litigates in state and federal courts and before arbitral forums including FINRA, JAMS, the National Futures Association and the Singapore International Arbitration Centre. She has experience in derivatives regulatory and enforcement proceedings before the CFTC and SEC, and counsels clients navigating complex compliance and transactional issues in the digital asset space.

Dedication to clients for effective advocacy

Clients turn to Alexa for her business-first judgment, meticulous preparation and advocacy skills. She integrates rigorous factual development with strategic advocacy, examining experts and fact witnesses, end-to-end discovery management and briefing trial, dispositive and appellate issues, to align litigation strategy with enterprise objectives and deliver results that matter.

Alexa is also recognized for her sustained commitment to pro bono service. In law school she served as the Note and Comment Editor for The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology.

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Practice Focus

  • Litigation and enforcement matters for financial institutions, investment firms and funds
  • Disputes and advisory on commodities, derivatives and digital assets
  • Prediction markets
  • Commercial litigation
  • International arbitration
  • Litigation
  • Real estate litigation

Representative Experience

  • Represent a global bank in suit against transfer agent, in a multimillion-dollar federal court case.
  • Represented an international bank in a CME Market Regulation investigation.
  • Represented a proprietary trading firm in a CME investigation.
  • Represent co-founder of a multimillion-dollar cryptocurrency investment fund in a co-founder dispute and derivative action.
  • Secured business‑driven resolutions in mediation, including in an international cryptocurrency dispute and a complex construction case, avoiding the cost and uncertainty of prolonged litigation.
  • Represented a registered exchange before the CFTC in connection with regulatory oversight of event-based contracts, including drafting advocacy materials, researching federal preemption and gaming-law issues, and addressing public-interest arguments.
  • Coordinated cross-matter eDiscovery and document productions in SEC and DOJ investigations involving a digital asset exchange.
  • Defended a futures commission merchant in multiple National Futures Association arbitrations.
  • Defended a leading investment firm in FINRA arbitrations arising from a yield‑enhancement options strategy, conducting expert and fact examinations and driving a cohesive defense strategy.
  • Secured judgment on the pleadings in federal court for a real estate developer in coverage litigation brought by its title insurer.
  • Obtained appointment of a receiver, approval of a substitute trustee, and leave to proceed with foreclosure on behalf of a secured commercial real estate lender.
  • Represent a major financial institution in leasing disputes and related strategy.
  • Represented defendant in suit arising from a failed real estate acquisition.
  • Defended a global bank in a $40 million breach of contract suit in federal court.

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Education
  • Northwestern University, JD, cum laude
  • Loyola Marymount University, BA, magna cum laude
Bar Admissions
  • North Carolina
  • Illinois
Court Admissions
  • US Supreme Court
  • US District Court, Northern District of Illinois
  • US District Court, Western District of North Carolina