Margaret Isa Butler serves as BakerHostetler’s Financial Services Industry team co-leader and has more than 20 years of experience in mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, and joint ventures having represented publicly listed companies, private equity fund managers, institutional investors and family offices across the investment strategy spectrum. She has managed multimillion-dollar and billion-dollar deals, and her experience includes securities offerings, real estate development projects and limited partner investments, debt and equity co-investments and direct investments. Margaret’s background as an investment banker enables her to view all sides of a transaction and develop multifaceted strategies to accomplish clients’ goals.

Margaret engages her passion for blockchain and crypto as co-founder and general counsel of cmorq, the mission of which is to empower consumers by giving them easy access to decentralized finance for personal banking through the cmorq app and allowing them to exchange, send and lend crypto to earn passively.

Margaret has been named as a New York Metro Super Lawyers "Rising Star" and she was honored by the Brooklyn Bar Association Volunteer Lawyers Project as a 2021 Dedication to Justice Award recipient.