Blockchain, Cryptocurrency & Digital Assets

iLaw currently acts on behalf of several senior executives in federal and regulatory investigations surrounding a major cryptocurrency exchange.

We have specialist expertise in:

• The complex and evolving legal and regulatory environment surrounding cryptocurrencies and digital assets
• Regulatory investigations involving allegations of price and market manipulation, fraud, spoofing, wash sales and other forms of market abuse
• Litigation, including freezing injunctions, digital asset tracing and recovery, both in the UK and offshore
• Data protection and privacy issues
• Company incorporation, financing and shareholder agreements
• Advising angel investors in seed-stage and later stage financing
• Technology development
• Joint ventures including research and collaboration agreements
• Licensing
• Intellectual property
• Creating and issuing tokens, and digitizing assets

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Reference Guides

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• UK Jurisdiction Taskforce Legal Statement on cryptoassets and smart contracts
• FCA’s Guidance on Cryptoassets
• Cryptoassets: AML / CTF regime
• Registering with the FCA as a business carrying on cryptoassets activity in the UK
• Cryptoassets: tax for businesses
• Cryptoassets: tax for individuals
• ESMA Advice on initial coin offerings and crypto-assets

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International

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As one of the co-founding firms of ICLA (International Commercial Law Alliance) iLaw has excellent connections with many firms in leading jurisdictions in the blockchain and crypto world.

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