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Blockchain, Fintech and Cryptocurrency

Introduction

Our Digital Assets Practice provides comprehensive offshore expertise on Blockchain, cryptocurrencies and digital assets on Cayman Islands law and BVI law.

The Cayman Islands are one of the most popular jurisdictions in the world for Blockchain related businesses and cryptocurrency funds, with the largest initial coin offering (ICO) ever recorded and a growing ecosystem of blockchain technology companies.

Our attorneys are very experienced in this fast-paced and rapidly growing industry and ready to assist with:

  • Counseling clients on their initial coin or token offerings or security token offerings (ICOs/ITOs/STOs) in the Cayman Islands, including structuring issues, SAFT/SAFTE agreements, reviewing the White Paper and the terms and conditions of the blockchain platform, and drafting the token sale documentation
  • Advising clients on issues related to offshore investment funds investing in digital assets and specific risk factors
  • Advising on tokenized funds investing in venture capital or real estate
  • Advising on corporate, financing and intellectual property issues related to investments in blockchain companies and joint venture projects
  • Advising token issuers and cryptocurrency funds on compliance with the Cayman Islands Anti-Money Laundering (AML) regulations.

News and Insights

Crypto Regulation
INSIGHTS | 01 January 2024

Crypto Regulation

By way of an update on our recent publication (which can be found here) that the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) had determined that the Cayman Islands has substantively fulfilled its action plan, and following completion of a recent on-site visit by the FATF, the Cayman Islands has…

Legal Alert: Persons carrying on Business as Virtual Assets Service Providers Act in the BVI.
NEWS | 14 July 2023

Legal Alert: Persons carrying on Business as Virtual Assets Service Providers Act in the BVI.

By way of an update on our recent publication (which can be found here) that the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) had determined that the Cayman Islands has substantively fulfilled its action plan, and following completion of a recent on-site visit by the FATF, the Cayman Islands has…

Key factors for launching virtual assets business in BVI
INSIGHTS | 23 June 2022

Key factors for launching virtual assets business in BVI

By way of an update on our recent publication (which can be found here) that the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) had determined that the Cayman Islands has substantively fulfilled its action plan, and following completion of a recent on-site visit by the FATF, the Cayman Islands has…

Digital Assets: Certain Cayman Islands law issues to consider
INSIGHTS | 02 March 2020

Digital Assets: Certain Cayman Islands law issues to consider

By way of an update on our recent publication (which can be found here) that the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) had determined that the Cayman Islands has substantively fulfilled its action plan, and following completion of a recent on-site visit by the FATF, the Cayman Islands has…

Digital Assets. Five Questions to Ask Your Cayman Counsel
INSIGHTS | 22 November 2018

Digital Assets. Five Questions to Ask Your Cayman Counsel

By way of an update on our recent publication (which can be found here) that the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) had determined that the Cayman Islands has substantively fulfilled its action plan, and following completion of a recent on-site visit by the FATF, the Cayman Islands has…

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