Digital Assets and Blockchain Legal Services

Holland & Knight's Digital Assets and Blockchain Tech Team provides comprehensive legal representation at the intersection of distributed ledger technologies and the law. The team has been working with DLTs and digital assets for years and was one of the earliest entrants in the Web3 space. Holland & Knight attorneys wrote one of the first books on blockchain technology and the law, "The Blockchain: A Guide for Legal and Business Professionals" (Thomson Reuters).

Corporate Structuring and Venture Capital

The firm assists innovators and investors in raising and deploying equity capital in the digital asset space. Services include company formation, corporate governance, tax structuring, executive compensation, and general corporate counseling. The team works hand-in-hand with regulatory, intellectual property, and other specialized attorneys to customize solutions.

Regulatory Compliance

Extensive experience advising on federal and state securities and commodities laws as applied to digital assets, including tokenized assets, investment vehicles, and decentralized finance (DeFi) products. Clients include issuers, digital asset managers, exchanges, custodians, virtual asset service providers, promoters, and employees of digital asset companies.

Financial Services

Advises financial services companies on digital asset matters including DeFi strategies, lending against digital asset collateral, custody agreements with major providers, and stablecoin issuance including banking regulatory compliance.

Enforcement Defense

The team includes former SEC enforcement supervisors involved in the earliest enforcement actions involving bitcoin and dark web marketplaces. The firm represents clients in civil enforcement investigations by the SEC, CFTC, and state regulators, as well as criminal investigations by the DOJ.

Innovative Legal Firsts

In 2022, Holland & Knight pioneered service by non-fungible token (NFT), becoming the first legal team in the world to serve legal notice by airdropping an NFT to a blockchain address. The firm has developed proprietary blockchain-based processes for claims verification and distribution in receivership matters, including the world's first multimillion-dollar distribution of digital assets to fraud victims.