Fintech, Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain Technology, and Web3

Our specialists spanning multiple offshore jurisdictions offer clients exceptional market insights and cover the fintech ecosystem advising on decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), decentralized finance (DeFi) and the Web3 landscape generally. We have established ourselves as the market leader in the Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands (BVI) for creating and implementing a variety of innovative and regulatory compliant structures and have experts across our jurisdictions, including Hong Kong, BVI and Cayman which are fully engaged with their local regulators to help steer the future regulatory landscape.

Blockchain Technology, Fintech, Cryptocurrency Transaction services:
- Regulatory and compliance
- Structuring, investment structuring, formation and virtual assets funds
- Intellectual property protection
- offshore technology funds and other funding vehicles including ICO, ITOs, tokenized and cryptocurrency funds
- Restructuring and corporate recovery
- Dispute resolution
- Decentralized autonomous organizations and decentralized finance
- VASP regulations and digital assets
- Tokenization , blockchain and smart contracts
- Regulatory memorandum of advice
- Physical presence business set up or relocation of web3/ offshore digital technology business
- Data commercial contracts
- Data privacy

Related Publications

24 Jan 2024 Cayman Islands removal from EU AML List to be effective on 7 February 2024 The Cayman Islands was removed from the FATF Grey list in October last year which was then followed by the UK on 5 December 2023 Read More

3 Nov 2023 Cayman Islands: an overview of Foundation Companies The Foundation Companies Act 2017 (the “Act”) introduced a novel corporate vehicle to the Cayman Islands – the “Foundation Company”. Read More

30 Oct 2023 Cayman Islands removed from FATF Grey list By way of an update on our recent publication the Financial Action Task Force had determined that the Cayman Islands has substantively fulfilled its action plan, and the Cayman Islands has now been de-listed from the so-called “Grey list”. Read More

26 Oct 2023 Cayman Islands: Key dates to terminate a Cayman company to avoid unnecessary fees for 2024. If you are considering terminating a Cayman company by way of voluntary liquidation or strike-off, it is crucial to adhere to specific deadlines and procedures to avoid unnecessary fees for the year 2024. Read More

20 Oct 2023 Cayman Islands: Proposed Legislation to expand Cayman Islands’ beneficial ownership framework The Beneficial Ownership Transparency Bill, 2023 (the “Bill”), which aims to streamline the Cayman Islands’ beneficial ownership framework and to enhance transparency. Read More

19 Oct 2023 British Virgin Islands: BVI REMOVED FROM EU LIST OF NON-COOPERATIVE JURISDICTIONS FOR TAX PURPOSES The British Virgin Islands (BVI) has been removed from the European Union (EU) list of non-cooperative jurisdictions for tax purposes. Read More

12 Oct 2023 Why and Where Do You Need to Be Offshore? Why and Where Do You Need to Be Offshore? Wendy Au of Loeb Smith Hong Kong office shared her insight with SS&C Intralinks on what makes offshore destinations attractive to Asia-based fund managers with some key.. Read More

Cayman Islands: Updated AML Guidance on use of e-KYC, Digital ID, and remote onboarding and ongoing monitoring of business relationships

4 Oct 2023 Cayman Islands: Updated AML Guidance on use of e-KYC, Digital ID, and remote onboarding and ongoing monitoring of business relationships In recent years, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, onboarding clients and monitoring business relationships on remote basis have become the dominant trend. Read More