As you seek to capitalise on the transformational power of blockchain and digital assets, our global Emerging Technology Group provides comprehensive and technically adept blockchain legal support.
Our global network of partners and lawyers have extensive experience advising on the full breadth of distributed ledger technology (DLT) and blockchain projects, often breaking new ground and shaping legal precedent.
We advise businesses ranging from startups to established high-growth technology companies – including the world’s leading crypto exchanges and De-Fi businesses – to payment companies, robo advisers, platforms, asset managers, and investment funds. We take a multidisciplinary approach in addressing the novel legal issues facing companies that invest in, develop and use blockchain technologies, providing comprehensive and technically adept advice.
Our experience includes:
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Products: We support pioneering and innovative businesses on developing, adopting, and operating all forms of blockchain businesses and products, from decentralised and hybrid exchanges to decentralised autonomous organisations (DAOs – we even built our own). We have advised on several of the most pioneering tokenisation programmes across real world assets (RWAs) and non-fungible tokens (NFTs), cryptoasset reviews, and smart contract applications including bridges, nodes, and wallets, bringing together expert counsel from across our financial services regulation, data privacy and cyber security, IP protection and open-source licensing, and other market leading legal practices.
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Formations and expansions: We advise companies on navigating complexities associated with establishment and international expansions, using our significant global footprint to provide thorough and seamless advice across the totality of legal disciplines. We support businesses on corporate formation, structuring, governance, and employment law, alongside application of evolving financial services regulations and on submissions for regulatory approvals to benefit from access to new markets.
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Investment: We advise investors and sponsors on the full spectrum of global and domestic blockchain-related private equity and venture capital investments, mergers and acquisitions and debt financing throughout the entire lifecycle from start-up to initial public offering (IPO). We have supported some of the most innovative funds and exciting businesses to fuel their growth, providing comprehensive advice from due diligence and recommendations to post-transaction integration and transition.
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Disputes and investigations: Our market leading disputes practices advise businesses on complex and high-stakes litigation, arbitration and investigations, including IP litigation. We combine technological understanding with legal expertise to assist companies in challenging regulatory enquiries and supervisory examinations, capitalising on our extensive experience acting for leading crypto firms on market-defining litigation and arbitration to provide robust representation.
We provide holistic legal advice that is aligned with your ambitions, strategy, and operations. Our Emerging Technology Group combines our market leading legal practices to deliver comprehensive guidance on financial services regulation and broader finance and regulatory matters; investment; corporate formation and governance; structuring and operations; data privacy and cybersecurity; IP counsel and protection; disputes and arbitration, and many others.
We are committed to supporting trailblazing work on blockchain, digital assets and web3. Our lawyers contribute to shaping the digital asset ecosystem; we sit on the steering committee of the Global Blockchain Convergence, chair the Digital Commerce Committee of the Business Law Section of the Law Council of Australia, and are active members of Blockchain Australia and the Digital Law Association.
