Blockchain Technology & Digital Assets

Our Approach

These innovative technologies cross many well-established industries that we have served for decades. Our team leverages its global strengths in practice areas such as securities, private fund formation, cross-border transactions, energy, real estate, health care and privacy, intellectual property and others to help our clients create, integrate and understand these technologies to advance their business goals and remain relevant competitors in the future.

We help clients at the vanguard navigate the rapidly evolving use of blockchain technology in all areas of business. Decentralized application protocols, blockchain companies, non-traditional corporate entities, non-profit organizations, digital asset miners and transaction validators seek our advice and counsel on an array of business matters, including:

• Corporate governance and securities issuance
• Labor and employment matters
• Corporate tax advice
• Multigenerational estate planning and wealth management
• Cost-effective energy solutions for miners
• Government relations and public policy matters

We counsel teams creating cryptocurrency and other digital asset investment vehicles, token-economy systems for information reporting and token sales. Our team can address trademark and other intellectual property protection issues with respect to digital assets, and advise on investment and venture capital, lending and tax implications. We assist clients in making initial coin offerings that are compliant with U.S. federal and state securities laws.  We guide clients through the compliance, regulatory, transactional, corporate governance and policy nuances of blockchain technology.

We can help with:

• ICOs (initial coin offerings) of securities tokens
• Formation of closed-end cryptocurrency hedge funds and private equity-style vehicles
• Commercial lending
• Patents and other intellectual property protection of blockchain technologies
• Acquisitions and dispositions of blockchain-related companies
• Companies that are developing blockchain infrastructure
• Agreements for institutions looking to leverage blockchain technology
• Oversight of the applications being used by your clients, vendors and customers

Who we work with

• Technology companies, cooperatives and foundations
• Startups and distributed teams
• Investors (family offices, funds-of-funds, institutional and pension plan investors, syndicated groups, foreign nationals and individuals)
• Seasoned fund managers, emerging managers and independent sponsors
• Consultants
• Law firms