Carey Olsen is at the forefront of providing legal advice and solutions to our clients across the blockchain, digital asset and tokenisation sector in the jurisdictions in which we operate.

Our technology lawyers embrace new challenges and opportunities and have advised on many innovative digital asset projects, including the launch of the first Bitcoin investment fund, the first Ethereum denominated fund, the world’s first digital asset exchange traded fund, as well as ground-breaking trading platforms, digital asset issuances, digital asset denominated insurance products, decentralised finance (DeFi) protocols and decentralised autonomous organisations (DAOs).

Our advice includes digital/virtual asset and insurtech regulatory and licensing applications, company incorporations, financings, M&A, capital markets and transaction support, fund formation (both fiat and digital asset denominated), token and stablecoin issuances and regulation, corporate structuring, restructuring, migrations, corporate governance, shareholder agreements, joint venture agreements, data protection and GDPR, mining and pool agreements, taxation as well as regulatory investigations and dispute resolution.

Our lawyers are increasingly advising on the tokenisation of 'traditional' financial assets (e.g. bonds, equities, real estate, limited partnership interests) on a blockchain infrastructure and have successfully advised on the launch and development of offshore structures which employ permissioned tokens or "smart contracts".

As a full-service firm, we draw on specialists from across our corporate, banking and finance, investment fund, regulatory, private client, employment, litigation practices to advise on the wider elements of a transaction as needed. Our scale enables us to structure cost-effective single or multi-jurisdictional client teams appropriate to each engagement.

"Very familiar with the blockchain/Web3 space." – Chambers FinTech Legal

Related services

• Amalgamations and mergers, acquisitions and disposals of licensed digital asset businesses
• Corporate structuring and restructuring
• Custody and exchanges
• Data protection
• Decentralised autonomous organisations (DAOs)
• Decentralised finance (DeFi)
• Dispute resolution
• Exchange traded products (ETPs)
• Financing
• Foundation companies
• Insurance/Insurtech
• Investigations and enforcement
• Investment manager and fund formation
• Licencing and registrations
• Mining and pool agreements
• Virtual asset service provider (VASP) registration and licencing
• Web3