Former CFTC senior counsel Danielle Abada joins Mayer Brown

Danielle Abada, a former senior counsel at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), has joined law firm Mayer Brown. Her practice focuses on event contracts and artificial intelligence. Before her government service, she represented financial institutions in private practice.

Adds CFTC regulatory expertise to a major law firm's event-contracts practice, signaling continued institutional interest in the regulatory framework around prediction markets.