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Financial Markets, Digital Assets & Investments

Licensing, compliance, crypto regulation and investment support for financial market projects.

The Financial Markets, Digital Assets & Investments Practice team serves projects and companies in the financial market with the highest regulatory burden, applying best-in-class GR and compliance practices.

Services for professional financial market participants

  • Obtaining licences, statuses and registry records; legal audit of licence compliance
  • Regulatory inspection support and appeal of supervisory orders
  • Drafting mandatory and voluntary internal documents and contractual framework with clients and counterparties
  • Advising on the launch of new financial and non-financial products

Crypto regulation, digital assets and fintech

  • Jurisdiction selection for launching digital asset and crypto projects
  • Support for transactions involving digital assets
  • Legal audit and structuring of crypto and digital projects
  • Obtaining licences for digital asset and cryptocurrency activities
  • Support for the issuance, circulation and accounting of cryptocurrency and digital assets
  • Tokenisation of real assets and integration of crypto and digital assets into payment solutions
  • Legal audit of payment and fintech service operations

Investments and financing

  • Investment round support and venture capital fundraising
  • Option programmes and vesting mechanisms
  • Organising securities issuances (IPO, SPO, bond issues including substitution bonds) and DFA placements
  • Drafting issuance documentation (white paper)
  • M&A transaction support in the financial sector
  • Transaction structuring, due diligence and transactional documentation
  • Legal work with alternative funding sources and cross-border settlements under sanction constraints

Our clients

Our core client portfolio includes IT companies, professional financial-market participants and real-sector businesses with a high regulatory and contractual load.

All clients

The LP team helps clients from every sector of the economy resolve legal matters of any complexity.

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