Blockchain & Digital Assets
Shape the next era of digital finance
Translate bold ideas into compliant, market-ready products with legal solutions that help you move faster and build long-term resilience.
As decentralized finance matures, a new generation of blockchain-native infrastructure is transforming how capital is raised, value is transferred, and stored around the world. Stablecoin models, non-custodial platforms, and tokenized assets are all redefining the modern finance playbook—layer by layer, protocol by protocol. To lead in this new era, you must balance innovation with credibility, all while staying one step ahead of evolving regulations and investor expectations.
Harnessing deep sector intelligence and an entrepreneurial approach, we help you move fast without losing control. From token launches to platform expansion, we support the legal and strategic decisions that drive your business forward.
Helping you build what others haven’t
In blockchain, nothing is standard—and the regulatory roadmap is oftentimes unclear. Here’s how we help you push the boundaries, stay protected, and ensure your products stand up to scrutiny.
Blockchain institutional knowledge: We’ve helped shape Canada’s blockchain ecosystem from the ground up—advising on some of Canada’s first tokenized financings, early exchange registrations, and precedent-setting regulatory engagements. Our team includes former in-house counsel to leading crypto trading platforms and financial institutions, giving you the insider perspective needed to build with intention, not guesswork.
Integrated regulatory support: Today’s digital asset ventures are subject to a complex matrix of overlapping regulatory regimes: securities, payments, anti-money laundering (AML), consumer protection, and more. We help you bring those requirements into alignment across your tech stack, platform design, and growth model, offering the mile-high view you need to stay fast, focused, and fully compliant.
Built-in credibility and trust: As a qualified legal provider to Canada's Big Six banks and a long-time advisor to regulators, FinTech scaleups, Web3 platforms, and payment networks, we bring a rare, end-to-end view of how innovation moves through financial systems. Whether you're advancing policy, launching products, or scaling operations, we help you align innovation with stakeholder expectations and long-term credibility.
Global execution, local alignment: Whether you're scaling a global token offering, integrating with international custodians, or adapting your structure for cross-border operations, we help you align with regulatory expectations and business realities wherever your business takes you. With offices across Canada, the UK, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, we offer globally integrated support that’s built for cross-market complexity—not just minimum entry requirements.
Financial markets and payments are evolving. We are here to help your businesses translate novel ideas into real, resilient products that meet both the moment—and the regulations. Whether you are integrating digital assets into your traditional business model, scaling a new trading platform or designing a first-of-its-kind token, our advice is built to match the pace and complexity of your world.
- Adam Garetson, Partner and Leader, Blockchain & Digital Assets Group
End-to-end legal support
Your business is unique, which is why our services are anything but off the shelf. Whether you’re tokenizing real and financial assets or building a custody solution, we connect your business priorities with proactive legal strategies. Explore our services:
Client work
- Advised on the transaction that resulted in the world's first public listing of a blockchain company, bringing BTL Group to market on the TSX-V.
- Counsel to one of the co-founders of Ethereum, now one of the largest crypto-currencies in the world.
- Currently acting as lead counsel on a high volume of initial coin offerings (ICOs) / token sales with blockchain projects relating to all industry sectors, including infrastructure, construction, property management and energy.
- Counsel to several investment funds seeking to invest in crypto-currencies or crypto-assets (such as tokens and other blockchain startups), including fund formation, securities registration and compliance, downstream investments and M&A.
- Counsel on novel patent applications for several banks and other blockchain pioneers.
- Trademark agent to a crypto-currency bitcoin exchange and internet financial services company with respect to the registration in Canada and the US of its new exchange trademark.
- Counsel to leading Canadian crypto-exchanges and digital wallets, as well as leading players in India and Australia seeking Canadian legal advice.
- Counsel to a leading full-service blockchain technology company, in ongoing tax, GST, transfer pricing and corporate commercial matters.
