Crypto Blockchain Lawyer

Blockchain & Crypto Lawyers

First-chair in-court jury trial lawyers focused on crypto – blockchain. 

What we do?

We represent blockchain / cryptocurrency businesses. This involves:

Blockchain Legal Advice

Fractional General Counsel legal advice. Acting as a lawyer for corporate officers solving crypto legal issues.

Adding Value

Increasing the value of your crypto business to investors, for mergers, and acquisitions.

Reducing Risk

Anticipating and Preventing Problems. Reducing the risk of crypto businesses.

What Makes Whale.Law Different?

Superior experience in quality and quantity marks our difference.  Our lawyers are no rookies. Mr. Hamilton has decades of experience in court,  in jury trials, winning cases as senior counsel.  

Most crypto and blockchain lawyers are relatively new to the law.  They lack the necessary years of experience our lawyers have earned.

Some crypto law firms brag about their “coding experience” or “crypto gaming” history.  Such experiences are fine, and help with familiarity with blockchain industry terms and user experiences.  However, one wants a lawyer with superior legal and crypto experience.

Our lawyers have lead counsel experience, and are not just “on the team,” performing basic legal functions.  Our lawyers are in court lawyers, in the field lawyers.  We have not spent our careers behind a desk reading memos and writing letters.  You are paying a lawyer to help you with technical areas in which you are not experienced; you are not hiring a comrade to “talk shop.”

Our lawyers have spent their professional careers solving legal problems and managing client risk.   It is said that “a Jack of all Trades is Master of None,” and this is true.  There are only so many hours in a day, and a lawyer must pick the areas to develop specialized knowledge and skill.  We solve and avoid big problems for blockchain.

Fractional
General Counsel

We offer fractional general counsel legal services for cryptocurrency and blockchain businesses.  Some choose not to have an in-house legal department but rather employ lawyers with experience across multiple businesses.  This is “fractional general counsel.”  We use our extensive-specialized experience to solve most business problems.  We find, hire, and manage outside counsel to solve the remaining challenges, all to benefit our crypto clients. 

Crypto
Company Formation

Investors and Government Regulators look at your document filings when judging your business. The quality of your business documents directly affects the value of your business. Your business documents directly affect how you fare when “crypto winter” storms threaten.

Common errors are made when a business is formed. Employees download “form” documents thinking they are all the same, only to later have the business in serious trouble. 

IMMEDIATE-FAST IMPROVEMENTS

SPACs – Special Purpose Acquisition Corporations

Crypto Business
Licenses

Operating
Agreements

Stock
Certificates

DAO Decentralized Autonomous Organization “legal wrappers,” corporate structure, and formation.

Articles of Incorporation (a.k.a. Certificates of Formation a.k.a.
Articles of
Organization)

Licenses for Individuals (SEI, Series 7, Series 3, Series 57,
Series 63,
Series 65)

By-Laws

Adding Value for Investors and Reducing Risk

Businesses that are up and running should increase their worth and avoid legal risks

New Customer / Investor Applications

Custom Contracts

PIIAA - Proprietary Information and Invention Assignment Agreement

SAFT – Simple Agreement for Future Tokens

Founder's Agreement

SAFE – Simple Agreement for Future Equity

Business planning, formation, and
structuring

AML - KYC - KYT Anti-Money Laundering - Know Your Customer

NCA - Non-Compete Agreement (Covenant Not to Compete, or Restrictive Covenant)

NDA - Non Disclosure Agreement (Confidentiality Agreement)

SEC Securities and Exchange Commission - CFTC Commodity Futures Trading Commission - Investor Fundraising Compliance

SEC, FinCEN, FINRA, CFTC Relations

Crypto EXCHANGE ISSUES ADDRESSED

Security Token Offering (“STO”)

Initial Exchange Offering (“IEO”)

Decentralized Finance (“DeFi”) Tokenization

Real Estate & Real World Asset ("RWA") Tokenization

International Offerings, IPO

NFT - Digital Collectables

ATS - Alternative Trading System - Registration - Compliance

Token Letter – Legal opinion letter to list a crypto token on an exchange

Investor Funding SEcured

Crypto businesses typically complete several funding rounds.  We help increase funding amounts, smooth the transaction process, lead you to legal compliance, and deal with the problems that arise.  

  • Draft the Investment Contracts

  • Structure Investments to be Legal

  • Strategic Entity Creation to Optimize Investing

  • Work the Investment Transactions to Ease Concerns and Optimize Money Security

  • Protect Investor's Rights and Ownership

  • Improve the Business' position for the next funding round

Increasing company value
for mergers & acquisitions

  • Ace the Due Diligence Audits

  • Drafting the Legal Paperwork

  • Negotiating the Best Price

  • Complying with Laws and Regulations

  • Solving Intellectual Property Issues

  • Spotting and Avoiding Tricks Harmful Tactics