Choate represented Meso Networks, a crypto payments startup, in its sale to MoonPay, a global leader in crypto payments. The acquisition of Meso marks a major milestone in MoonPay’s evolution to a global payments network connecting banks, card networks, stablecoins and blockchains under a unified regulatory framework, including MTLs, BitLicenses, and MiCA approval. Meso’s co-founders Ali Aghareza and Ben Mills, formerly of PayPal and Venmo respectively, will join MoonPay as the new chief technology officer and senior vice president of product.