Raffi Teperdjian

Raffi Teperdjian is an associate at McDermott Will & Emery. His practice focuses on corporate and transactional matters, with an emphasis on venture capital investments, restructuring and spinouts, asset-based lending, and related regulatory compliance for FinTech, Web3, blockchain, and other technology-driven companies.

Before joining McDermott, Mr. Teperdjian was senior counsel at Protocol Labs, Inc, an open-source research and development lab working on matters including investments and deals, treasury management, and regulatory compliance.

During his legal academic career and currently as an attorney, Mr. Teperdjian regularly researches, publishes, and presents on emerging technology topics across a variety of legal subjects. His scholarship includes “The Puzzle of Squaring Blockchain with the General Data Protection Regulation” published in Jurimetrics for which he was awarded the Loevinger Prize as the article in Volume 60 that made the best contribution to the field of law, science, and technology. He also co-authored “A Structural Solution to Mitigating Artificial Intelligence Bias in Administrative Agencies” published in George Washington Law Review Arguendo.

Prior to, and concurrently with, Mr. Teperdjian's study of the law, he worked on a variety of systems development and big data analysis projects in both federal and commercial information technology consulting. In addition to his present role at McDermott, he teaches Artificial Intelligence Law and Policy at The George Washington University Law School.