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October 30, 2024

Enjin Ecosystem Lawyer Leads Asia “40 Under 40” Rankings

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Enjin Ecosystem Lawyer Leads Asia “40 Under 40” Rankings
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Isabel “Ish” Guidote-Pangalangan, esq., 33, led the Asia Legal Business Asia 40 Under 40 2024 Rankings, together with Indonesian e-sports pioneer Yudistira Adipratama, 33. This is Asia’s most prestigious mainstream “Under 40” ranking for lawyers and not specific to Web3 or tech.

Ish was one of only five in-house lawyers awarded, together with lawyers from tech unicorns Lazada and FinAccel. Most awardees were from Asia’s leading law firms and global law firms’ Asia offices. Ish works as General Counsel and VP-Legal of Atlas Development Services, a core contributor to Enjin Blockchain. She previously won “Young Lawyer of the Year” and “Fintech Lawyer of the Year” in ALB Philippine Law Awards 2022, and was a finalist for “Woman Lawyer of the Year (In-House)” in ALB SE Asia Law Awards 2024. Her team also won “Innovative In-House Team of the Year” in ALB Philippine Law Awards 2023. Ish was also cast by the Enjin Ecosystem as “Nexara: Sovereign of the Blockchain” in the Enjin 2023 “Cursed Machines” NFT collection by Steven Dutenhoefner. This character was a hacker wielding “unparalleled power across dimensions.” This may have been inspired by Ish’s work on community intellectual property licenses and copyright infringement guidelines.

Ish is one of Asia’s most senior female Web3 project leaders. She manages institutional projects including with listed companies such as a Japanese listed game developer, and various product issues including with App Store (Apple) and Play Store (Google). She led legal, commercial and corporate structuring aspects of key ecosystem events such as the Enjin token and NFT migrations and the Efinity Polkadot crowdloan. The Enjin Coin migration was successful, with a majority of tokens migrated in less than 60 days after the launch of Enjin Blockchain in September 2023.

Ish has done work under various global securities, payments/anti-money laundering, intellectual property and other regulatory frameworks from Singapore and Japan to the United States, European Union and United Kingdom. She works alongside senior blockchain developers, including CTO Witek Radomski, and negotiates blockchain security audits. Ish holds law degrees from Harvard Law School, King’s College London, and the University of the Philippines College of Law, and is triple-qualified in New York, England and Wales, and the Philippines. She was previously a senior member of the Philippine Competition Commission and, having served in the Philippine government, is passionate about blockchain’s applications in remittances, financial inclusion, and artist and content creator empowerment. Ish was also a a performance level ballerina with the Philippine Ballet Theatre.

The legal team under Chief Financial Officer and Chief Legal Officer Oscar Franklin Tan was added to Legal 500 GC Powerlist in October 2023. This is the world’s most prestigious recognition for company lawyers and includes teams from tech giants such as Microsoft and Google and Southeast Asian tech unicorns such as Grab and GoTo.

The team was also a finalist for ALB SE Asia Law Awards 2024 In-House Team of the Year and Blockchain In-House Team of the Year, and ALB Pan Asian Regulatory Awards 2024 Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) Team of the Year, alongside leading Web3 companies Ripple, Crypto.com and Anchorage Digital. Oscar was also a finalist for “In-House Lawyer of the Year (Technology)” in ALB SE Asia Law Awards 2024.

Enjin Ecosystem Lawyer Leads Asia “40 Under 40” Rankings

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