MOTION to Unseal Document [102] SEALED MOTION FOR LEAVE TO FILE DOCUMENT UNDER SEAL filed by SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION (This document is SEALED and only available to authorized persons.) filed by SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION by SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION. (Attachments: # (1) Text of Proposed Order, # (2) Exhibit SEC Motion To Compel Exhibit 10 (Redacted), # (3) Exhibit SEC Motion to Compel Exhibit 14 (Redacted), # (4) Exhibit SEC Motion to Compel Exhibit 15 (Redacted), # (5) Exhibit SEC Motion to Compel Exhibit 16 (Redacted), # (6) Exhibit SEC Motion to Compel Exhibit 19 (Redacted), # (7) Exhibit SEC Motion to Compel Exhibit 21 (Redacted), # (8) Exhibit SEC Motion to Compel Exhibit 26 (Redacted), # (9) Exhibit SEC Memorandum in Support of Its Motion To Compel, # (10) Exhibit Declaration of Jennifer Farer in Support of SEC Motion to Compel)(Scarlato, Matthew). Added MOTION to Withdraw on 9/15/2023 (znmw).
Page 1 EXHIBIT 16Page 2 From:
To:
Cc:
Subject:
Date:
Farer, Jennifer
Adler, Jeremy; Scarlato, Matthew
McLucas, William; Smith, Tiffany; Beville, Matthew; gcanellos@milbank.com; mlaroche@milbank.com; DaSilva,
Joe
RE: SEC v. Binance Holdings Ltd., et al. (1:23-cv-01599)
Saturday, August 5, 2023 10:09:00 AM
Counsel,
We write to follow up on yesterday’s call and our ongoing discussion about responsive information
concerning the infrastructure, systems, and software involved in wallet creation and management
and custody of assets. We continue to try to work with you in good faith to identify more specific
categories of information responsive to our discovery requests that are necessary for the evaluation
of wallets and custody of assets.
To that end, for Ceffu, Binance.com, and the third-party custodians used by Binance.US for custody
and control of Customer Assets and the assets of the BAM Entities, please provide all SOC reports;
ISO Certifications; user entity, access, and security controls; change management controls; a list of
all infrastructure environments, systems, and software involved in wallet creation and management
and custody of assets; identification of the technology that supports Binance.US that is located on
the Binance.com AWS environment; and identification of all users with access to the relevant
infrastructure, systems, and software.
Please let us know if you have any questions or want to discuss.
Thank you.
Jennifer L. Farer
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
100 F Street N.E. | Washington, D.C. From: Adler, Jeremy
Sent: Friday, August 4, 2023 4:54 PM
To: Farer, Jennifer ; Scarlato, Matthew
Cc: McLucas, William ; Smith, Tiffany ; Beville, Matthew ;
gcanellos@milbank.com; mlaroche@milbank.com; DaSilva, Joe
Subject: RE: SEC v. Binance Holdings Ltd., et al. (1:23-cv-01599)
CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open
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Thank you Jennifer. That works for us. I’ll send out an invite.
All the best,
JeremyPage 3 From: Farer, Jennifer
Sent: Friday, August 4, 2023 4:42 PM
To: Adler, Jeremy ; Scarlato, Matthew
Cc: McLucas, William ; Smith, Tiffany ; Beville, Matthew ;
gcanellos@milbank.com; mlaroche@milbank.com; DaSilva, Joe
Subject: RE: SEC v. Binance Holdings Ltd., et al. (1:23-cv-01599)
EXTERNAL SENDER
Jeremy,
We can do 5:30 today. Let us know if that works for you. If so, please send a dial-in.
Thanks.
Jennifer L. Farer
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
100 F Street N.E. | Washington, D.C. From: Adler, Jeremy
Sent: Friday, August 4, 2023 4:17 PM
To: Farer, Jennifer ; Scarlato, Matthew
Cc: McLucas, William ; Smith, Tiffany ; Beville, Matthew ;
gcanellos@milbank.com; mlaroche@milbank.com; DaSilva, Joe
Subject: SEC v. Binance Holdings Ltd., et al. (1:23-cv-01599)
CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open
attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe.
Jen and Matt,
In response to certain of the issues raised by you in our call yesterday we propose the
following.
1. We will provide any documents BAM has that are relevant to the Ceffu role in creating
the new wallets for Customer Crypto Assets (as required by Section II.2. of the Consent
Order) and we will explain what we understand the process to entail. We will attempt to
do this by early next week.
2. On your request for depositions we propose that you take depositions of Erik Kellogg,
Sara Sisenwein and Tao Zhang, who runs BAM’s Clearing Team
. We also propose that you depose
, a shard holder. If, after deposingPage 4 , you have additional questions concerning those holding the shards and
their use, we can discuss whether additional shard holders should be deposed.
3. On your request for communications related to the audit of BAM, we assume you have
all of the auditors’ workpapers. If your questions or concerns relate to the issue of the
custody agreement involving BHL and whether it was operational or not, we will explain
what we understand the facts are related to that arrangement and how it worked.
Since the expedited discovery is addressed to matters “concerning the Customer Assets and
their possession, custody, control, transfer or movement, security segregation, availability and
any encumbrances or limitations . . . [that might make them unavailable],” we believe the
foregoing should address many of the questions you might have. However, we think it may
be helpful to discuss these items. Are you available for a call today at either 4:30 or 5pm ET?
Thanks,
Jeremy
Jeremy Adler | WilmerHale
7 World Trade Center
250 Greenwich Street
New York, NY 10007 USA
+1 212 295 6417 (t)
+1 212 230 8888 (f)
jeremy.adler@wilmerhale.com
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From:
To:
Cc:
Subject:
Date:
Farer, Jennifer
Adler, Jeremy; Scarlato, Matthew
McLucas, William; Smith, Tiffany; Beville, Matthew; gcanellos@milbank.com; mlaroche@milbank.com; DaSilva,
Joe
RE: SEC v. Binance Holdings Ltd., et al. (1:23-cv-01599)
Saturday, August 5, 2023 10:09:00 AM
Counsel,
We write to follow up on yesterday’s call and our ongoing discussion about responsive information
concerning the infrastructure, systems, and software involved in wallet creation and management
and custody of assets. We continue to try to work with you in good faith to identify more specific
categories of information responsive to our discovery requests that are necessary for the evaluation
of wallets and custody of assets.
To that end, for Ceffu, Binance.com, and the third-party custodians used by Binance.US for custody
and control of Customer Assets and the assets of the BAM Entities, please provide all SOC reports;
ISO Certifications; user entity, access, and security controls; change management controls; a list of
all infrastructure environments, systems, and software involved in wallet creation and management
and custody of assets; identification of the technology that supports Binance.US that is located on
the Binance.com AWS environment; and identification of all users with access to the relevant
infrastructure, systems, and software.
Please let us know if you have any questions or want to discuss.
Thank you.
Jennifer L. Farer
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
100 F Street N.E. | Washington, D.C. 20549
From: Adler, Jeremy
Sent: Friday, August 4, 2023 4:54 PM
To: Farer, Jennifer ; Scarlato, Matthew
Cc: McLucas, William ; Smith, Tiffany
; Beville, Matthew ;
gcanellos@milbank.com; mlaroche@milbank.com; DaSilva, Joe
Subject: RE: SEC v. Binance Holdings Ltd., et al. (1:23-cv-01599)
CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open
attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe.
Thank you Jennifer. That works for us. I’ll send out an invite.
All the best,
Jeremy
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From: Farer, Jennifer
Sent: Friday, August 4, 2023 4:42 PM
To: Adler, Jeremy ; Scarlato, Matthew
Cc: McLucas, William ; Smith, Tiffany
; Beville, Matthew ;
gcanellos@milbank.com; mlaroche@milbank.com; DaSilva, Joe
Subject: RE: SEC v. Binance Holdings Ltd., et al. (1:23-cv-01599)
EXTERNAL SENDER
Jeremy,
We can do 5:30 today. Let us know if that works for you. If so, please send a dial-in.
Thanks.
Jennifer L. Farer
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
100 F Street N.E. | Washington, D.C. 20549
From: Adler, Jeremy
Sent: Friday, August 4, 2023 4:17 PM
To: Farer, Jennifer ; Scarlato, Matthew
Cc: McLucas, William ; Smith, Tiffany
; Beville, Matthew ;
gcanellos@milbank.com; mlaroche@milbank.com; DaSilva, Joe
Subject: SEC v. Binance Holdings Ltd., et al. (1:23-cv-01599)
CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open
attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe.
Jen and Matt,
In response to certain of the issues raised by you in our call yesterday we propose the
following.
1. We will provide any documents BAM has that are relevant to the Ceffu role in creating
the new wallets for Customer Crypto Assets (as required by Section II.2. of the Consent
Order) and we will explain what we understand the process to entail. We will attempt to
do this by early next week.
2. On your request for depositions we propose that you take depositions of Erik Kellogg,
Sara Sisenwein and Tao Zhang, who runs BAM’s Clearing Team
. We also propose that you depose
, a shard holder. If, after deposing
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, you have additional questions concerning those holding the shards and
their use, we can discuss whether additional shard holders should be deposed.
3. On your request for communications related to the audit of BAM, we assume you have
all of the auditors’ workpapers. If your questions or concerns relate to the issue of the
custody agreement involving BHL and whether it was operational or not, we will explain
what we understand the facts are related to that arrangement and how it worked.
Since the expedited discovery is addressed to matters “concerning the Customer Assets and
their possession, custody, control, transfer or movement, security segregation, availability and
any encumbrances or limitations . . . [that might make them unavailable],” we believe the
foregoing should address many of the questions you might have. However, we think it may
be helpful to discuss these items. Are you available for a call today at either 4:30 or 5pm ET?
Thanks,
Jeremy
Jeremy Adler | WilmerHale
7 World Trade Center
250 Greenwich Street
New York, NY 10007 USA
+1 212 295 6417 (t)
+1 212 230 8888 (f)
jeremy.adler@wilmerhale.com
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