Pump Fun taps prominent lawyers to fight Burwick lawsuit
Pump Enjoyable has bolstered its defense group as it prepares to handle Burwick Law, which calls the memecoin platform a ‘pump and dump’ scheme.
Memecoin platform Pump Enjoyable has actually made more additions to its legal group as it gears up to fight a claim brought by legal firm Burwick Law. Legal filings from last Thursday and back in May exposed that Brown Rudnick’s Daniel L. Sachs and Kyle P. Dorso have been called as counsel. They join Stephen D Palley, chair of Brown Rudnick’s Digital Commerce Group, in representing Baton Corporation, Pump Enjoyable’s parent company.
According to Brown Rudnick, Sachs is a specialist in ‘white collar’ defense and has worked as counsel for the Securities and Exchange Commission, where he led securities fraud investigations. Sachs has also assisted defend Shaquille O’Neal in an NFT securities class action claim and represented Mark Cuban and the Dallas Mavericks in a claim associated with their promotion of Voyager Digital. Dorso, meanwhile, is a commercial litigator and crypto specialist. He helped Atomic Wallet dismiss a lawsuit that claimed the crypto company was responsible for a $100 million hack and has worked on crypto theft and data engineering cases. Palley is a veteran of the insurance and crypto litigation area. Not only did he support Atomic Wallet, he has also dealt with Hector DAO, proof-of-stake blockchain developers, crypto derivative exchanges, protocol developers, wallet providers, and NFT investors.
Pump Fun wasn’t quick to get lawyered up. Burwick Law accuses Pump Enjoyable of extracting millions of dollars in funds through the sale of ‘highly-volatile unregistered securities.’ All this, while allegedly lacking compliance measures and leaving it open to ‘terrorist financing, drug trafficking, and other transnational crimes.’ When Burwick served Pump Enjoyable developers Alon Cohen, Dylan Kerler, and Noah Bernhard Hugo Tweedale, they were relatively caught off guard without a legal team. The memecoin founders only obtained Brown Rudnick’s ‘formal’ representation on April 7, 2025. This was one day before their deadline to respond to the complaints was up, and indicated they were forced to apply for an extension.
Burwick Law’s founder, Max Burwick, and law firm Wolf Popper are representing Kendall Carnahan and other plaintiffs as part of the class action suit against Pump Fun. Burwick Law is a crypto-focused law firm that has numerous lawsuits and investigations ongoing against crypto firms and tokens. Many of these tokens are minted on Pump Fun, which Burwick Law claims is part of a ‘pump and dump’ scheme that unfairly rigs the odds for investors.
Burwick Law recently caught flak from fans of Pump Enjoyable after it chose to promote its lawsuit on the same day that Pump Fun’s X account was suspended for unknown reasons. By now, it’s accustomed to the backlash it receives for suing Pump Fun. The lawsuit requests a trial by jury; however, the case is still in its early stages, and no trial date– presuming there will even be one– has been set.
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