We provide clients with straightforward advice, guidance on how to overcome legal and regulatory challenges, access to a team of lawyers with deep technical understanding of blockchain distributed ledger technology as well as the technologies and industries that will be most immediately impacted by its implementation.
WHO WE REPRESENT:
WHAT WE DO: Advise companies involved in token generating events (TGEs) (often referred to as "initial coin offerings" or simply "ICOs"), crowdfunding and other capital raising transactions Advise on regulatory obstacles to help clients overcome hurdles involving U.S. securities law and Investment Company Act (SEC), U.S. Commodities laws (CFTC), and compliance with FinCEN's know‐your‐customer (KYC) and anti‐money laundering (AML) requirements Formation of investment funds formed to hold tokens and virtual currencies, including broker‐ dealer and registered investment advisor compliance Assist investors and asset managers acquiring virtual currency, or tokens, through TGEs, crowdfunding or other capital raising transactions Structure non‐investment sales of utility tokens used to measure market demand and generate interest around a product FinCEN registration and state licensing projects for money services businesses (MSBs), including token exchanges and others engaging in money transmission activities Advise on intellectual property matters and open source projects U.S. tax structuring for domestic and foreign issuers, investment vehicles and other structures involving U.S. and non‐U.S. residents
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WHO WE ARE: Our team of lawyers thrive at the intersection of technology and the law, including lawyers who actively code smart contracts on the three major "2.0" protocols: − DApps on Ethereum − CorDapps on R3's Corda platform − Chaincode on Hyperledger Fabric
We are thought leaders who have published 30+ papers touching on the impact of blockchain on every industry, and wrote the first legal primer on blockchain for Thomson Reuters.
We are organically built around our industry sector groups; our team includes lawyers with in‐depth experience in banking, supply chain and trade finance, healthcare, energy, government, capital markets, real estate and insurance – each of whom understands the impact of, and issues raised by, blockchain on their industry.
We understand the importance of other technologies that, when combined with the integrity of blockchain's ledger, become even more powerful, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), which will soon have exponentially greater bandwidth on the 5G spectrum, and artificial intelligence tools. These applications give rise to risks; some of which are familiar and others as novel as the technology itself. We believe our greatest value to clients is not the identification of these risks, but the solutions we develop to effectively mitigate against them.
LEARN MORE. CONNECT WITH US. Josias Dewey
Jeffrey Seul
Partner | Miami 305.789.7746 joe.dewey@hklaw.com
Partner | Boston 617.305.2121 jeff.seul@hklaw.com
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