The decentralized finance (‘DeFi’) ecosystem encompasses everything from cryptocurrency, stable coins, decentralized exchanges, and wallets to payment networks, lending and insurance platforms, key infrastructure development, marketplaces, and investment engines.
Our multidisciplinary blockchain, cryptocurrency, and DeFi professionals provide securities, corporate, tax, regulatory, compliance, dispute resolution, data privacy, cyber security advice to issuers, innovators, investors, promoters, asset managers, and exchanges.
Our clients benefit from a global staff of more than 30 cryptocurrency professionals based in the Europe, MENA and Asia Pacific.
Market knowledge
We are conversant in the DeFi lingo, both legally and technically. We understand and have even invented the technology that underpins space breakthroughs. For our clients, we work with cryptocurrencies, consensus-based algorithms, and smart contracts on a regular basis. Our global team also knows and can manage all of the legal and compliance concerns of pandemic-driven next-generation supply chain networks that include artificial intelligence, IoT sensors, and smart contracts. These interconnected ecosystems are the bedrock of the global economy of the future.
Compliance services
We routinely advise clients regarding compliance with securities, commodities, tax, anti-money laundering, banking and privacy regulations, including, among others:
• EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
• EU Anti-Money Laundering Regulations (eg 5AMLD)
• UK Financial Services and Markets Act 2000
• UK The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) Order 2001 (UK)
• UK Money Laundering Regulations 2017
• UK E-money Regulations 2011
• UK Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II
• UK Payment Services Regulations 2017
• Saudi Arabia Monetary Authority Regulations
• Capital Market Authority (KSA) Regulations
• Singapore Payment Services Act (PSA)
• Singapore and Hong Kong Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Counterterrorist-Financing (CTF) rules/ ordinance
• Singapore Securities and Futures Act (including the Capital Markets Services license and MAS Sandbox)
• Hong Kong SFC’s Regulatory Framework for Virtual Asset Portfolios Managers, Fund Distributors and Trading Platform OperBRators
• Turkish Regulations: Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency (BDDK), Capital Markets Board (SPK) and Central Bank Republic of Turkey (TCMB)