Digital Assets & Blockchain Law

Digital Asset & Blockchain Lawyers 

The Digital Asset & Blockchain Lawyers at Philip Jones provide a full-suite of commercial, regulatory and taxation legal services to individuals and companies in the crypto and digital asset space. 

We act for cryptocurrencies featured in Forbes, Bloomberg, Cointelegraph, Yahoo Finance, CoinMarketCap, Nasdaq, Insider, Investing.com, Benzinga and Gulf News. 

Further, we advise and assist individuals who are facing obstacles navigating the crypto legal and tax minefield. 

We regularly assist with the following.

Security Token Offerings (STOs) and Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs)

Drafting, reviewing and advising on whitepapers.

Advising on and preparing the terms of contribution agreements to issue coins and tokens.

Advising on and preparing the Terms & Conditions of coin and token platform exchanges.

Advising on whether tokens constitute securities under the law of the relevant jurisdiction.

Risk & Compliance

Advising intermediaries such as brokers and exchanges on their compliance obligations.

Advising on Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) compliance issues.

Fundraising 

Advising and assisting private cryptocurrency fund sponsors on all aspects of the fundraising lifecycle, including fund formation, regulatory compliance and market terms; preparing offering documents for new private cryptocurrency funds, including private placement memoranda, limited partnership agreements and subscription agreements; global regulatory advice; tax efficient investment structuring; and carried interest, management equity arrangements and other incentive structuring.

Venture Capital & Private Equity

Advising and assisting venture capital and private equity firms on transactions involving digital assets and blockchain-related companies.

Taxation of Cryptocurrencies

Philip Jones offers sophisticated and knowledgeable legal counsel to clients navigating the legal and taxation minefield of the digital economy. 

Our Digital Asset and Blockchain lawyers are actively involved in the cryptocurrency world. In addition to advising banks and cryptocurrencies, some of our lawyers have been investing in cryptocurrencies themselves for the last decade. 

In light of this, Philip Jones Legal use their experience to provide practical taxation advice. In this respect, Philip Jones Legal’s expertise in this field is perhaps unmatched by any other law firm in the City. 

Digital Assets In Your Will & Estate Planning 

Advising on complex estates which include digital assets held in physical or online wallets, coin and token platform exchanges, ETFs and more.

Advising on and preparing your Will to include protection for your digital assets.

Advising on and preparing your Trust to ensure your descendants and future generations benefit from your digital asset portfolio.

Estate planning advice to minimise tax liability in relation to your digital assets.

Valuation of Crypto Assets

Our Accountants and Corporate Lawyers can assist in valuation of your crypto assets. 

Tracing Crypto Assets

Our technology specialists, Information Technology team and private investigator network assist in tracing crypto assets. 

Regulatory Bodies 

Advising on requirements to register as broker-dealers, commodity pool operators, commodity trading advisers, investment advisers, investment companies, securities exchanges and money service businesses. 

Philip Jones assists cryptocurrencies and digital asset companies satisfy the requirements of regulatory bodies such as the FCA to give you the best possible chance of success in regulation applications. 

Advising on money service businesses and money transmitters and their registration requirements.

Further, we advise clients during investigations by the FCA, other regulators and law enforcement agencies.