On Chain: Crypto & Digital Assets

From blockchain strategy to global impact: Guiding digital asset innovation, navigating regulations, and driving market growth.

Blockchain and digital assets are reshaping the global economy—and our Crypto & Digital Assets Group is built to help clients stay ahead of that transformation.

With lawyers operating across major financial and tech hubs worldwide, we advise on the breakthroughs, regulations, and opportunities defining the future of Web3. 

Across industries, organizations turn to us as they explore the next era of digital innovation. Whether launching a new blockchain venture, navigating complex global regulations, designing NFTs, platform tokens, or other digital assets, or raising capital, we provide end-to-end guidance that meets the pace of the market. Our leading finance and capital markets team structures sophisticated domestic and cross-border financing arrangements for a broad range of clients, including private placements, public offerings, mergers, and convertible debt raises—all supporting innovative treasury strategies and digital asset adoption. 

Our corporate and transactional capabilities extend to mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and partnerships, venture capital, emerging growth, fund formation, company formation and governance (including DAOs and foundations), and corporate reorganizations and divestitures. We help clients navigate every stage of growth, investment, and restructuring, ensuring that digital asset innovation is fully integrated with sound corporate strategy.

We work with investors, exchanges, brokerages, governments, and global consortiums on the legal challenges of decentralized governance and emerging Web3 services, offering strategic regulatory, transactional, financial, and commercial advice. Our team has represented anchor investors, acquisition vehicles, and private placement agents in multi-hundred-million-dollar transactions across digital asset treasuries, token launches, and corporate combinations, providing clients with the legal architecture to unlock market opportunities.

We maintain trusted relationships with top regulators worldwide—including the SEC, CFTC, OCC, FCA, BaFin, SFC, HKMA, and MAS—providing clients with clarity in a fast-moving regulatory environment. To stay ahead of industry transformation, we invest in a rigorous internal training program that spans far beyond the law, ensuring our lawyers remain fluent in the technologies, market trends, and innovations shaping the digital asset ecosystem.

Services include: 

  • Regulatory & Compliance
    • Financial regulatory (AML/KYC, securities, commodities, stablecoins)
    • Licensing & registration (VASP, broker-dealer, MSB, CPO, CTA, IB, FCM, DCM, SEF)
    • Cross-border legal & tax structuring
    • Digital asset crime, insurance & risk coverage
    • Trade, sanctions & customs
  • Corporate & Transactions
    • M&A, joint ventures & partnerships
    • Venture capital, emerging growth & fund formation
    • Company formation & governance (DAOs, foundations)
    • Corporate reorganizations & divestitures
    • Capital raising and treasury strategy for digital asset holdings
    • Private placements, public offerings, and convertible debt for blockchain and crypto ventures
    • Structuring cross-border financing and investment transactions involving digital assets
  • Finance & Investment
    • Digital asset finance
    • Structured products & derivatives
    • Lending & collateralization (on-chain, custody)
    • Investment management (crypto funds, asset managers)
    • Project finance & restructuring
  • Disputes & Investigations
    • Arbitration & commercial disputes
    • Insurance coverage disputes
    • Bankruptcy, restructuring & creditor matters
    • Regulatory investigations & enforcement
    • Criminal & white-collar matters
  • Technology, Data & IP
    • Blockchain, smart contract & tokenization agreements
    • IP strategy (NFTs, trademarks, patents)
    • Data privacy & cybersecurity
    • Technology transactions (platforms, APIs, SaaS) 

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