Financial Services

Global financial services law

• Dubai's Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority: Advised on the world's first regulatory framework specific to virtual assets.
• Figure Technologies: Advised on a blockchain-based eVault for digital debt obligations, and on a novel application of UCC Article 8 to crypto-backed lending.
• Publicly Traded Financial Services Company: Advised on a PIPE of up to $600M in convertible debentures, with crypto collateral perfected by control under UCC Article 8 through BitGo.
• Leading Global Financial Institution: Advised on a cross-border blockchain structure for registering and transferring verified carbon credits.
• Bullish Global: Advising on US money transmission, securities and commodities law, and on its New York BitLicense application.
• ParaFi v. Egorov (Curve DAO founder): Won an appeal in a trade secret and securities fraud case seeking more than $100M in equity and CRV tokens.
• Leading Cryptocurrency Exchange: Won a published appeal affirming dismissal of claims over not supporting Bitcoin forks.
• Archax: Advised on setting up the first regulated digital MTF. Archax became the first digital securities exchange and custodian authorized by the UK FCA.
• London Stock Exchange Group: Advised on a long-term strategic partnership with a leading global technology company, encompassing cloud transformation initiatives and a strategic equity investment.
• Katapult Holding: Advised on its US$1 billion business combination with FinServ Acquisition Corp., a SPAC.
• Leading National Bank: Won dismissal of every claim brought by Century Bank, a participating lender, in the Southern District of Texas. The claims arose from a syndicated loan to Bridgelink Engineering, and the court enforced the credit agreement's reliance disclaimers and agent-protection provisions.
• Worldline: Advised on its 51% acquisition of ANZ Bank's Australian merchant acquiring business and the related alliance joint venture, at an enterprise value of US$925 million.
• TokenFunder: Supported the first initial token offering approved by the Ontario Securities Commission.
• Zamfir v. CasperLabs (S.D. Cal. 2021): Defeated a motion for a preliminary injunction that sought to block the launch of the Casper blockchain and the sale of more than $100M in CSPR tokens.
• SoftBank Vision Fund: Represented the fund in the $93M Series B financing of The Sandbox, an Ethereum-based metaverse platform.
• Global Payments: Advised Global Payments on its acquisitions of Ezidebit for AUD305 million and eWAY Payments Pty Ltd for AUD75 million, as well as its acquisitions of SaaS provider Sentral and eDebit.
• Zilch: Advising buy now, pay later (BNPL) provider Zilch on its debt and equity fundraising from a leading global alternative asset manager's private credit team and DMG Ventures, the investment arm of Daily Mail & General Trust.
• Coinberry: Advised on its $38M acquisition by WonderFi Technologies, which consolidated Canadian crypto platforms.
• HBTPower: Secured a US$51.5 million arbitration award against a North American energy company in a Bitcoin mining dispute.
• Leading global investment bank: Acted as arranger counsel on more than 20 CLO transactions worth about US$10.6 billion in total, typically as deal counsel drafting the main documents and negotiating with rating agencies and investors.
• Trimaran Advisors: Acted as manager counsel on about US$2.14 billion of CLO transactions, including cross-border structuring between the US and the Cayman Islands.
• Nomura: Advised Nomura as administrative agent, and Nomura, KKR Capital Markets and others as arrangers, on a US$1.42 billion refinancing term loan for Ontic Aerospace and a new US$150 million incremental term facility.
• Concord: Advised the music company on a US$1.765 billion music securitization. Its ten-year tranche is the longest-duration ABS issued at scale in the music sector.
• Dye & Durham: Advised the legal software, payments and banking infrastructure provider on its debut in the US term loan B and high-yield markets, including US$555 million of senior secured notes, a US$350 million term loan B and a US$105 million revolving facility.
• Rabobank, leading international banking group and major Asia-Pacific banking group: Represented the three banks in the multi-jurisdictional restructuring of China Fishery Group, including obtaining the appointment of a Chapter 11 trustee in the Southern District of New York.
• Together Money: Closed four publicly issued, rated RMBS transactions totaling more than £1.6 billion, each sold to US investors on a 144A basis.
• Leading Global Bank: Advised on a synthetic securitization of about NOK 2.5 billion and SEK 1.3 billion of Nordic credit card receivables.
• Intesa Sanpaolo: Advised on setting up two pan-European EUR20 billion issuance platforms for financial instruments.
• Leading Global Athletic Apparel Company: Represented in a trademark litigation involving branded NFTs and counterfeit products, which settled in August 2025.