BRAEDEN ANDERSON
Hi, I’m Braeden.
I'm a partner at Gesmer Updegrove LLP, where I lead the Securities Enforcement and Digital Assets practice areas. I’ve served as Assistant General Counsel at Robinhood, practiced at Kirkland & Ellis and Sidley Austin, and represented clients in high-stakes matters before the SEC, DOJ, FINRA, and state regulators.
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Options Approval, Supervision, and Where Disputes Commonly Arise
Options trading has become widely accessible to retail investors, particularly through online and app-based brokerage platforms. That accessibility, however, operates within a regulatory framework that assigns specific responsibilities to broker-dealers while preserving customer autonomy in self-directed accounts. Many disputes in this area arise not from market outcomes, but from questions about how that framework functions in practice.