A specialist crypto licensing firm — not a general law firm that ‟also handles crypto.”

Our story

Founded by Magic-Circle alumni who got tired of crypto being a side practice.

The firm was founded in 2018 by a Magic-Circle alumnus and an in-house crypto-exchange general counsel. The opening view was simple: crypto licensing is its own discipline. It is not a junior-counsel rotation inside a larger banking practice, and clients increasingly stopped accepting it as one. Eight years later, the firm is fifteen-jurisdiction-deep with five anchor partners and thirty specialists across five offices.

What we are: a specialist legal infrastructure firm for crypto licensing, tokenization and compliance. What we are not: a general law firm with a sidekick crypto desk, a brokerage that ‟arranges” licences, or a marketing-led ready-made-licence seller. The distinction matters because the regulators we deal with — VARA, FCA, MAS, SFC, FINMA, NYDFS — assess applicants against working knowledge of their actual rulebooks, not against polished pitch decks.

What we do

We obtain crypto licenses in 17+ jurisdictions, design AML/KYC programmes that survive examination, classify tokens against multiple securities-law frameworks, build foundation and SPV structures for token issuers, secure banking and payment rails post-authorisation, and run year-one supervision for retainer clients. The work is end-to-end. The same team that scopes the engagement runs the year-one audit cycle.

Our values — what they mean in practice

• Honest assessment first. If a project does not fit the jurisdiction, we say so — even if it costs us the fee;
• One licence is rarely enough. Real operators run multi-jurisdictional structures from day one. We plan two-to-three years out, not one engagement at a time;
• Substance over shells. We do not help build paper companies that collapse on the first regulator audit. Substance is non-cosmetic;
• No general advice. Every recommendation is anchored in current rulebook, not last year’s blog post or a competitor’s marketing sheet.

By the numbers

• 200+successful licence applications
• 17+jurisdictions actively serviced
• USD 1.2B+client capital protected by our compliance frameworks
• 8+years of specialist crypto regulation work
• 30+team members across 5 offices

Where we are

Five offices, one project manager.

• London (HQ) — United Kingdom;
• Dubai — United Arab Emirates;
• Singapore — Singapore;
• Tallinn — Estonia;
• Miami — United States;

Recognition

Chambers FinTech ranked. Legal 500 ranked. Quoted in the Financial Times, CoinDesk and The Block. Working group memberships include the UK Treasury cryptoasset financial-promotions group and the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance crypto working group.