Our team
Anchor partners and specialist counsel.
Five anchor experts and a thirty-strong team across London, Dubai, Singapore, Tallinn and Miami. Each engagement is led by an anchor partner who stays on the file from kickoff to year-one audit.
Daniel R. Whitmore
Founder & Managing Partner
Founder. Eight years at a Magic Circle firm leading the financial-regulation emerging-tech desk before founding the firm in 2018.
Focus: United Kingdom, United States, Jersey, Gibraltar
View profile →Layla A. Hassan
Partner — Head of MENA & APAC
Founding partner since 2019. Seven years in-house at a top-three UAE crypto exchange and at a leading Dubai law firm before that.
Focus: United Arab Emirates, Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia
View profile →Marcus T. Andersson
Partner — Head of Americas & Offshore
Sixteen years in international tax structuring and offshore corporate work. Previously senior associate at an offshore Magic Circle firm.
Focus: Canada, El Salvador, Panama, BVI
View profile →Tomáš Novák
Senior Counsel — EU & Eastern Europe
Six years at the European Banking Authority working on MiCA technical standards and the Transfer of Funds Regulation.
Focus: Georgia, EU MiCA (cross-cutting)
View profile →Dr. Ingrid Müller
Senior Compliance Officer & AML Lead
Lead authority on AML/CFT compliance. Former senior examiner at FINMA. Designs the AML/KYC programmes that underpin every license application.
Focus: Cross-cutting (AML/KYC), Switzerland
View profile →Speak directly with the partner who would lead your engagement.
No call-centre layer between the firm and the partner. Send a short brief, and the right anchor expert calls back within 24 hours.