Clifford Chance's cross-border Digital Assets and DLT team has deep experience advising fintechs, financial institutions, market infrastructures and other market participants on innovative and market-shaping projects. Our work spans digital assets, cryptocurrencies, tokenised securities, funds and deposits, digital bonds, blockchain-based platforms, the development and implementation of DLT infrastructure and other emerging digital solutions.
We have an established Global Digital Assets and DLT working group comprising Clifford Chance lawyers in APAC, Europe, the Middle East, the UK and the US across our Corporate, Global Financial Markets, and Litigation & Dispute Resolution practices.
Our Digital Assets working group is part of the Clifford Chance fintech sector, meaning we bring global best practice to our work as well as deep expertise across the fintech value chain, including the integration of technology into products and services offered by financial services companies.
We work alongside clients from the earliest stages of product development through to market launch, helping them navigate the legal, regulatory and commercial questions created by innovation. Our teams regularly advise on pioneering and market-first transactions, giving us practical insight into how new technologies, products and market infrastructure are developing across jurisdictions.
Clifford Chance has a dedicated tech public policy team which works seamlessly alongside our global transactional teams. Combined with our strong relationships with regulators and industry bodies, we have an influential role advising and engaging with governments, international bodies, regulators and other policymakers on technology-related topics including blockchain, tokenisation and digital assets.
Many of our lawyers also take part in national and international forums and bilateral discussions on Digital Assets and DLT with industry bodies, policymakers and other key stakeholders. This combination of transactional, regulatory and policy experience means we are not simply responding to developments in the market. We are working with clients and stakeholders at the forefront of those developments, helping to shape emerging products, structures and legal and regulatory frameworks.
We also regularly engage with market participants and contribute to the development of the wider digital assets ecosystem through our involvement in leading conferences, industry initiatives and events around the world.
