Prior joins King & Spalding as Partner
20 October 2025 US
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King & Spalding, an international law firm, has announced that Kim Prior has joined the firm’s financial services industry team and finance and restructuring practice group as a partner.
She is based in the firm’s New York office.
Prior is a financial services regulatory lawyer with extensive experience handling regulatory, transactional, corporate, and enforcement matters for domestic and international financial services firms and businesses including banks, broker-dealers, investment advisers, and private investment funds.
She also has a deep background advising clients in the distributed ledger, blockchain, and digital assets sector, including advising financial institutions, digital assets businesses and fintechs regarding regulatory, licensing, corporate and compliance issues.
Carolyn Alford, co-leader of the firm’s Finance and Restructuring practice group, says: “Kim’s experience covers the full spectrum of bank regulatory issues that our clients encounter, and she brings a growing practice in the burgeoning area of digital asset regulation and blockchain, which will continue to thrive on our platform.
“Kim is an entrepreneurial and energetic lawyer whose ability to combine technical financial regulatory advice with practical, business-focused solutions will be a major asset for our clients.”
Prior joins King & Spalding from Winston & Strawn, where she was a partner and served as co-chair of the digital assets group.
Commenting on her appointment, Prior says: “King & Spalding is an exciting place for me to grow my practice, as I will be able to apply my core skillset in financial regulation across multiple practices while enhancing the firm’s capabilities in digital asset and blockchain regulation.
“I’m looking forward to collaborating with my new partners across the firm to help clients navigate the evolving financial services regulatory environment.”
She is based in the firm’s New York office.
Prior is a financial services regulatory lawyer with extensive experience handling regulatory, transactional, corporate, and enforcement matters for domestic and international financial services firms and businesses including banks, broker-dealers, investment advisers, and private investment funds.
She also has a deep background advising clients in the distributed ledger, blockchain, and digital assets sector, including advising financial institutions, digital assets businesses and fintechs regarding regulatory, licensing, corporate and compliance issues.
Carolyn Alford, co-leader of the firm’s Finance and Restructuring practice group, says: “Kim’s experience covers the full spectrum of bank regulatory issues that our clients encounter, and she brings a growing practice in the burgeoning area of digital asset regulation and blockchain, which will continue to thrive on our platform.
“Kim is an entrepreneurial and energetic lawyer whose ability to combine technical financial regulatory advice with practical, business-focused solutions will be a major asset for our clients.”
Prior joins King & Spalding from Winston & Strawn, where she was a partner and served as co-chair of the digital assets group.
Commenting on her appointment, Prior says: “King & Spalding is an exciting place for me to grow my practice, as I will be able to apply my core skillset in financial regulation across multiple practices while enhancing the firm’s capabilities in digital asset and blockchain regulation.
“I’m looking forward to collaborating with my new partners across the firm to help clients navigate the evolving financial services regulatory environment.”
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