About

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Walkers Jersey Fintech team is known as a pioneering and market-leading Fintech team, working on the most complex, novel, and ground-breaking transactions in the fast-paced world of Fintech.

The calibre of deals we have been instructed on and the quality of our referees demonstrates that our firm is in the top tier for fintech work across a wide range of categories.

We have a Global Fintech team across all 10 of our offices, and work collaboratively on a daily basis. Walkers in Jersey has a leading cross-practice debt capital markets, fintech, regulatory, corporate and investment funds team who are at the cutting edge of innovative financial services products including "actively managed certificates" (known as AMCs) securitising digital assets, and platforms involved in the "tokenisation" of real-world assets (known as "RWAs"). Our Jersey team works seamlessly with colleagues in Cayman, Ireland, Bermuda, London, Guernsey and our other four offices on projects such as this.

Chambers Review

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FinTech Legal - Jersey

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What the Team is Known For

Walkers advises international businesses on partnerships with, and investments in, FinTech enterprises, as well as assisting financial institutions and asset managers with their own FinTech projects. The Walkers team handles corporate matters and regulatory mandates and also offers expertise in a wide range of other important areas, including in IP, AML, data protection and payments.

Work Highlights

  • Walkers advised Zodia Markets on its acquisition of Elwood Capital Management, an over-the-counter digital assets trading broker.

Notable Practitioners

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Dilmun Leach
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Dilmun Leach is a partner at Walkers and advises on a range of FinTech matters, including fund structuring and tokenisation of real-world assets.

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Sarah Townsend
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Sarah Townsend is a senior counsel at Walkers in Jersey. Her considerable experience includes investment funds, data privacy matters, tokenisation, and global compliance.

Ranked Individuals at
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FinTech Legal

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Dilmun Leach
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Sarah Townsend
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Members

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Adam Diamond

Gemma Palmer

Kirsten Faichnie

Sian Langley

Tatiana Collins