Anja von Rosenstiel

Anja von Rosenstiel is an accomplished legal professional specializing in banking, securities, financial services, and corporate law, with a particular focus on blockchain and digital assets. She has deep expertise in navigating the intersection of U.S., European, and German jurisdictions, with special emphasis on decentralization and DAOs (Decentralized Autonomous Organizations).

Anja currently operates in private practice, offering legal counsel in these areas. She is also a lecturer at Boston University Law School. After obtaining an LLM in American Law from BU in 2018, she completed a federal clerkship at the United States District Court for Massachusetts, which she finished in September 2019. Anja was admitted to the Massachusetts bar in June 2020.

In addition to her practice, Anja is a research fellow at the Decentralization Research Center. She is actively involved with various DAOs, including serving as a root node for Q.DAO, offering advisory support to DAO Suisse, and contributing to metagov DAO to advance governance issues related to decentralization and corporate law, particularly across the U.S. and European legal frameworks.

Anja has authored numerous articles in legal journals on blockchain law and has co-authored a handbook on European crypto regulation, as well as a comparative law treatise on DAOs. Anja holds degrees in International Private Law from the University of Geneva, MS in Mediation from European-University Viadrina, and LLM from Boston University School of Law.