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To keep you up to date, we bring together our regulatory, corporate, capital markets, litigation and IP knowledge around digital assets - including cryptocurrencies, NFTs and distributed ledger technologies.
The digital financial future is racing towards us. To help your business keep up to date with developments and the regulatory and business implications, we bring together for you here our thinking and expertise from the jurisdictions where we operate – UK, the Netherlands, Ireland, and Spain.
Our financial regulation team focuses entirely on financial services regulation. We are specialist advisers on financial regulation, with experience working across many parts of the UK’s Financial Services industry, including with the UK’s FCA, FOS, industry bodies and in-house with business.
Our advisers act on domestic and international projects of all shapes and sizes, working with many of the leading names across this diverse sector. Browse our experience below, or use the filters to look-up recent work in particular geographies and legal disciplines.
Advising on the development of a digital transfer agency proposition for tokenised funds, across the EU and US including in relation to the regulatory perimeter, operating model, custody and settlement arrangements, and the application of financial services regulation to the issuance, transfer and administration of tokenised fund interests.
Advised a leading European cryptoasset platform on the legal and regulatory implications of launching and operating a decentralised finance wallet offering in the UAE and wider Middle East region. The advice covered custody and non-custody considerations, virtual asset regulatory perimeter analysis, consumer protection requirements and cross-border distribution issues.
Advised the stakeholders of a proposed virtual asset exchange on a joint venture arrangement relating to the launch and operation of a digital asset trading platform. The engagement involved negotiating governance arrangements, ownership structures, regulatory responsibilities, intellectual property rights, commercial arrangements and future expansion mechanisms.
Advising a crypto-linked ETN issuer on FS regulatory requirements under UK MiFIR, EMIR, CCI, POATR and financial promotions regimes, and the of COBS appropriateness rules applicable to investment platforms through which cETNs are traded.
Advised a government-backed economic initiative on the design and implementation of an innovative framework to facilitate unregulated real-world asset tokenisation activities. The mandate involved analysing legal, regulatory and policy considerations associated with tokenised assets, investor participation, technology infrastructure and market governance mechanisms.
Advised an international fintech business on the establishment of a stablecoin-focused business model in the UAE. The mandate included analysis of fiat-referenced tokens, payment token frameworks, licensing requirements, issuance structures, custody considerations and the applicability of UAE financial services and virtual asset regulations.
Advised a prominent regional real estate investment platform on the legal and regulatory implications of accepting cryptocurrency and stablecoin payments for property-related transactions. The engagement involved assessing payment services, anti-money laundering requirements, consumer protection obligations and interactions between real estate and virtual asset regulatory regimes.
Advised leading crypto exchange-traded product (ETP) issuer, on the FCA's approval of their prospectus for issuing cryptocurrency-linked exchange traded notes (cETNs) to both professional and retail investors in the UK. This marked the first retail cETN programme approved by the FCA since it officially lifted its four-year ban on retail access to crypto ETNs in early October 2025.
Advised a technology company on the development of a carbon credit framework incorporating digital infrastructure and emerging technologies. The mandate included regulatory analysis of carbon credits, environmental attributes, tokenisation considerations and the structuring of governance and participant obligations within the proposed framework.
Acting as ongoing regulatory adviser to a digital assets business on a broad range of virtual asset regulatory matters, including potential perpetual futures products, virtual asset service provider licensing considerations and the tokenisation of gold and other real-world assets. The engagement encompasses licensing strategy, product structuring, governance, compliance and regulatory engagement matters.
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