Binance.US announced the appointment of Krishna Juvvadi as vice president, head of legal.

In this role, Juvvadi will lead the day-to-day operations of the company’s legal department and will report to Binance.US General Counsel Norman Reed.

Prior to joining Binance.US, Juvvadi served as global head of operations compliance at Uber, where he built and led a global cross-functional team of operations professionals, data analysts, product managers, and engineers to solve issues across its product lines.

He was the first regulatory attorney at Uber and previously served as its chief regulatory counsel, where he designed the company’s global regulatory strategy and helped in its efforts to secure legislation and regulations at the local, state, and federal level in markets throughout the world.

Before Uber, Juvvadi was a partner at SL Environmental Law Group, where he represented the state of New Hampshire against several major oil companies in a groundwater contamination case.

Earlier in his career, Juvvadi served as a trial attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, where he litigated violations of federal civil rights laws.