Digital assets, cryptocurrency and blockchain

Digital assets built on blockchain or distributed ledger technologies - including cryptocurrencies, NFTs and initial coin offerings - offer huge opportunities for business innovation and product development. At the same time, there are significant legal and regulatory considerations around their creation and use.

We bring our outstanding corporate, capital markets and regulatory knowledge and expertise together with our deep understanding of the technology and business landscapes.

We advise on legal issues around digital assets, and the application of the complex matrix of regulations around the issuance, custody, settlement, and secondary market trading of digital assets.

Our team includes market-leading specialists in corporate, M&A, IP, payments, e-money, capital markets and derivatives, banking, and financial services.

We bring global and cross-sector expertise together with our deep understanding of the technology and business landscapes to provide strategic advice across:

• Fundraising, M&A and joint ventures
• New product and platform development
• Issuance, custody, settlement, and secondary market trading of digital assets
• Financial instruments linked to digital assets
• Regulatory characterisation, registrations and wider regulatory engagement
• Litigation and investigations

Here, we will keep you up to date with all the key developments in digital assets.