Digital Assets & Emerging Technologies

Leveraging Traditional Legal Excellence for a New Era of Business
The digital economy is transforming how businesses, investors, and innovators operate.

From blockchain platforms to fintech ecosystems, artificial intelligence to digital assets, the pace of change demands legal advisers who not only understand emerging technologies but can also apply legal expertise to shape robust, future-proof solutions.

 

We are Specialists in digital commerce & emerging technology.

 

We represent clients across the digital space at the intersection of finance, technology, regulation and innovation. We know our clients as well as we know the market.

 

Harnessing our multi-disciplinary capabilities, we provide integrated expert advice.  Our clients benefit from a blend of traditional legal excellence and sector-specific knowledge, ensuring strategic, compliant, and commercially effective solutions for the evolving digital economy.

 

Why Clients Choose Us

 

  • Traditional Legal Excellence – A heritage of trusted legal advice
  • Innovation-Focused – Sector fluency in blockchain, fintech, AI, RWAs and digital commerce ecosystems.
  • Strategic Outcomes – Legal solutions that balance compliance and commercial effectiveness with wealth protection and innovation.
  • Cross-Disciplinary Insight – We combine sector fluency with joined-up thinking across disciplines with a team spanning financial regulatory, commercial IP & technology, data and privacy, AI regulation, corporate M&A, private equity, corporate finance, banking, private client and wealth planning, and dispute resolution.
What we do best:

Our Focus Areas

  • Digital Assets & Blockchain

    Tokenisation, DeFi, NFTs, foundations, DAOs, stablecoins, treasury structuring and structuring blockchain-based ventures.

  • Fintech & Payments

    Licensing, compliance, payments regulation, strategic partnerships, and innovation in financial services.

  • RWAs & Tokenisation

    Structuring and safeguarding real-world asset-backed digital offerings with robust legal frameworks.

  • Advisory & Regulation

    Privileged advice and perimeter guidance to ensure regulatory compliance including supervision, enforcement and future proofing.

  • Commercial AI, Data & Technology

    Smart contracts, intellectual property, data privacy, governance, risk, and AI regulation.

  • Commercial & Technology Disputes

    Complex disputes at the nexus of commerce, finance, and technology.

  • Private Wealth & Digital Assets

    Advising HNWIs, family offices and trustees on digital asset strategies, succession planning, cross-border wealth structuring and reputational protection.

Contact our team
Recent examples of our work include:
Advising several offshore exchanges on bases for continued access to UK consumers of opportunities to transact in digital currencies (in spite of the limitations under the UK Financial Promotion regime since late 2023).
Structuring a bond for an offshore listing denominated in Bitcoin.
Working with a real estate developer to assist in a construction project financed through token issuance.
Assisting a real estate agency business with transactions in the metaverse.
Advising an NFT marketplace minting a native digital currency, used to purchase on the marketplace and remunerate its staff, traded on a cryptocurrency exchange.
Advising a provider of liquidity and staking services to exchange-traded funds (ETFs) investing in various cryptocurrencies.
Advising a spun-out fund management team on transfer of the advisory relationship from Germany to the UK for a €30m PE fund investing in digital assets.
Acting for an NFT marketplace in a dispute with its software engineer.
Advising founders and senior executives of maximum extractable value (MEV) collectives and blockchain frameworks on the offshore transfer of their cryptoassets.
Advising on the creation and ongoing management of a fund investing in cryptoasset funds.