Blockchain and Fintech Lawyers | Sheppard Mullin
Our team includes lawyers from diverse backgrounds who understand the legal implications of blockchain and the intersection of financial services and technology. Our team is uniquely positioned to assist clients with legal issues related to blockchain and financial technology.
We provide full-service legal advice, from inception to successful exit, including:
- Advice on company formation and financing
- Develop and implement comprehensive intellectual property strategies (including experience patenting blockchain and fintech inventions)
- Develop guidelines for open source code and advise on the use of open source code
- Assess regulatory issues based on the business model (including remittance/AML issues, gambling, securities, commodities, data privacy and other regulatory issues) and help mitigate regulatory risk
- Negotiate and draft technology-related agreements (partnerships, licenses, development, marketing and other agreements)
- Drafting custom Terms of Service and EULAs that protect the client’s business and reduce legal risks
- Handling mergers, acquisitions, IPOs and other corporate transactions
Blockchain
We advise clients from innovative start-ups to legacy players in their efforts to capitalize on blockchain technology, and guide Fortune 500 companies aspiring to become Fortune 100 by taking advantage of the new markets blockchain technology is helping to open.
Because blockchain technology enables innovation in entertainment, gaming, financial services, healthcare, real estate and more, we have assembled a multidisciplinary team that includes lawyers who know these industries, as well as the corresponding applicability of blockchain technology in these areas. Our team includes leaders in NFT licensing and transactions, privacy, cyber security, intellectual property, venture capital, tax, finance and international trade who can master the complexities of blockchain technology and digital assets and exploit the opportunities for innovative use and monetization of these technologies.
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Fintech
Sheppard Mullin understands the financial and technology markets. There are many legal and political hurdles that fintech startups need to succeed, including currency and lending issues, security and privacy, intellectual property protection and technology agreements around platform solutions.
Our multi-disciplinary team of transactional, regulatory, IP and litigation lawyers combined with blockchain, financial services and emerging growth industry teams are well suited to advise on a myriad of fintech-related matters.
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