Web 3.0 and the metaverse are hot destinations for venture capital, but do traditional company structures and fundraising models work on this new frontier?
In a world of tokens alongside equity, and DAOs alongside traditional company structures, with national regulators around the world responding in very different ways and at very different paces, it can be difficult to know where to start!
This session will go over the main issues, including:
Lewis Silkin
Legal Director
Andersen in the UK
Head of Crypto & Digital Assets
Wendy specialise in financial services and markets law and regulation, both advisory and contentious. She have gained a breadth of experience from different perspectives across the industry – at a regulator, in-house at a UK retail bank and a global investment bank, and in private practice – which enables her to provide informed and strategic advice and guidance to clients.
Wendy advise a wide variety of clients, ranging from financial services firms to providers to the financial services sector. The nature of the advice ranges from one-off ad hoc financial services regulatory queries, to reviews of policies and implementation projects, to work on larger contentious matters. Her core practice is comprised of the following areas.
Zoe is a Partner and Head of Crypto & Digital Assets at Andersen in the United Kingdom. Specialising in international tax, she develops the blue-print solution to her clients’ cross-border needs.
Zoe’s clients are medium-large privately held companies and their shareholders. She advises on the corporate tax issues of typical UK and overseas business lifecycle events as well as the associated personal tax considerations for the shareholders.
Lewis Silkin
Partner
David is a partner at Lewis Silkin, advising on the full range of corporate finance transactions, from seed and angel investment rounds to IPOs, sales and acquisitions. His clients are companies, founders, investors and financial institutions at every stage of that journey, and the advice he gives on each transaction benefits from that experience of the types of transactions that the business has been through, and is hoping to get to in the future.
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