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Carey Olsen is at the forefront of providing legal advice and solutions to our clients across the blockchain, digital asset and tokenisation sector in the jurisdictions in which we operate. Our technology lawyers embrace new challenges and opportunities and have advised on many innovative digital asset projects, including the launch of the first Bitcoin investment fund, the first Ethereum denominated fund, the world’s first digital asset exchange traded fund, as well as ground-breaking trading platforms, digital asset issuances, digital asset denominated insurance products, decentralised finance (DeFi) protocols and decentralised autonomous organisations (DAOs).

Our advice includes digital/virtual asset and insurtech regulatory and licensing applications, company incorporations, financings, M&A, capital markets and transaction support, fund formation (both fiat and digital asset denominated), token and stablecoin issuances and regulation, corporate structuring, restructuring, migrations, corporate governance, shareholder agreements, joint venture agreements, data protection and GDPR, mining and pool agreements, taxation as well as regulatory investigations and dispute resolution.

As a full-service firm, we draw on specialists from across our corporate, banking and finance, investment fund, regulatory, private client, employment, litigation practices to advise on the wider elements of a transaction as needed.

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Carey Olsen's cross-jurisdictional FinTech practice advises clients on Bermuda, BVI, Cayman, Guernsey and Jersey law matters relating to regulatory and licensing, payments and data protection matters. The firm's multidisciplinary team also handles M&A deals, investment mandates and IP work. In the Cayman Islands, it typically advises on fund formation and cryptocurrency matters.

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Chris Duncan is a digital assets specialist in Carey Olsen's Cayman Islands team. He regularly advises crypto projects and DAOs on regulatory compliance and licensing matters, token issuances and early-stage funding.

Chris Duncan is an excellent lawyer in the FinTech industry. He is passionate about the industry and his deep breadth of knowledge translates into the quality of his legal advice.

Chris is my go-to attorney in the Cayman Islands on digital assets-related matters.

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