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The Payments Newsletter including Digital Assets & Blockchain, October 2024
31 October 2024
Whether it’s bringing transparency to a supply chain, reducing risk in financial transactions or defining ownership and value of NFTs, blockchain is much more than a Bitcoin database and markets across all sectors are being transformed by the technology. The rapid growth and adoption among businesses, individuals and governments has resulted in a complex domestic and international regulatory landscape.
We have one of the most experienced cross-sector Digital Asset and Blockchain practice of any law firm, with deep experience advising on complex, first-in-kind matters. We are at the forefront of change and our lawyers play a leading role in the development of the emerging regulatory frameworks for digital assets.
Our Digital Assets and Blockchain team are at the heart of the industry. Whether that is through providing briefings, training sessions and webinars to Governments and regulators across the world as they look to implement new regulatory regimes or providing counsel to and founding industry associations such as GBBC Digital Finance, we are there looking to move the needle on the discussion.
Our market leading lawyers and consultants, leverage a wealth of experience and know-how to provide our clients with the best possible service to tackle the most complex and first-in-kind matters arising in the industry. Spanning across all our offices, our team gives truly global representation.
Representative experience
Advising a consortium of international banks developing a multicurrency institutional payments system using DLT.
Advising a major global tech company on an enterprise-grade NFT platform aimed at their corporate clients.
Advising on structuring and various legal issues in relation to the establishment of a pharmaceutical consortium to deliver blockchain-based technological improvements within the healthcare sector.
Advising multiple cryptoassets companies in relation to their compliance with anti-money laundering regulations.
Advised a decentralized exchange on various matters, including the sale of a blockchain wallet technology to a major trading platform.
Advising a leading Asia-based financial institution on an agreement with a supplier to design and develop an NFT marketplace, a generative NFT and a 3D Metaverse World.
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Awards and recognitions
2022
Band 2 for FinTech
Chambers Global
2022
Band 1 for FinTech
Chambers UK
2022
Band 1 for Financial Services: Payments Law
Chambers UK
