FinTech & Blockchain

The FisherBroyles FinTech and Blockchain practice group combines our firm’s expertise in financial regulatory, technology, and transactional issues. This enables us to provide comprehensive services to clients marketing, operating, or investing in the FinTech and Blockchain space, and grappling with the application of laws to decentralized, open, trustless, and permissionless platforms.

Drawing upon our experience in capital markets, data security and privacy, securities, private equity, private fund formation, intellectual property, and technology, we help clients invest in, fund, develop, and market the innovative services and products that are revolutionizing the financial services and technology industries. Our practice group includes former SEC and CFTC staff members.

FisherBroyles provides strategic, transactional, and regulatory advice to a wide array of established and emerging participants, including:

  • Web 3.0 decentralized applications
  • DeFi platforms
  • Digital asset private funds
  • Venture capital funds
  • Exchanges and alternative trading systems
  • Information and deal portals
  • Data analytics firms
  • Payments companies and systems
  • Banking organizations
  • Financial market utilities and service providers

 

We regularly advise our clients on issues including:

  • Tokenization of assets and securities
  • NFT minting, sales, and distribution
  • Anti-money laundering and sanctions compliance
  • SEC, CFTC, and FinCEN regulatory compliance counseling and enforcement defense
  • Private fund formation and compliance for digital asset strategies
  • Venture capital fund formation and compliance for investments in Web 3.0 companies
  • Seed, venture capital, and private equity investments
  • Crowdfunding
  • International corporate structures
  • International and domestic tax
  • Open-source IP counseling
  • Acquisitions, dispositions, and joint ventures
  • Technology development, collaboration, and strategic agreements