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Clifford Chance to sponsor the Security Token Summit: Exchanges & Trading Platforms Take on Wall Street

Clifford Chance announced that it is a silver sponsor of the upcoming Security Token Summit: Exchanges & Trading Platforms Take on Wall Street. This is the first Security Token Summit to be held in the US, and will take place on Monday, June 11, 2018 in New York City. The Firm is the only legal sponsor of this event.

The Summit will focus on security tokens – a category of tokens which improve the liquidity of assets, including asset-backed tokens. These assets include real estate as well as debt and equity securities. The event will explore the transformation and disruptions of this industry, including:

• The basics of security token trading and exchange organizations
• The impact security tokens could have on liquidity premium
• Disruption versus collaboration with existing players in financial services – will the next-generation token trading platforms/exchanges collaborate with, or disrupt, Wall Street?
• Decentralized versus centralized exchange formats for security tokens
• Pros and cons of tokenizing on public versus private/enterprise chains
• The role of security token advisors and whether traditional advisors such as investment banks will enter this market or be displaced – or simply marginalized?

Members of Clifford Chance's cross-practice Fintech group will be in attendance including partners Jay Bernstein, David Felsenthal and Jason Myers along with associates, David Adams and Jesse Overall.

Clifford Chance is a leading adviser to the global financial sector and provides multidisciplinary transactional and regulatory advice to established and emerging participants in Fintech. Along with demonstrated leadership in both the financial and technology sectors, the Firm leverages strong relationships with regulators to develop practical, innovative solutions for clients that are shaping these converging worlds.