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At Founders Law, our role as a crypto lawyer and crypto solicitor team is to help digital asset businesses operate right at the cutting edge, while navigating the commercial, legal and regulatory realities of launching and scaling products across the UK, EU and UAE.
We support fintech platforms, exchanges, VASPs, token issuers, liquidity providers and institutional investors. Our legal practice is transactional and commercial rather than licensing-focused, with deep experience structuring deals and product flows across these key global hubs - the kind of practical support founders expect from a specialist crypto solicitor who understands how the industry really works.
Getting your structure right early on makes everything else easier and it’s one of the first areas founders come to a crypto lawyer for support.
We advise on entity structuring, token issuance locations, trading operations and holding structures across the UK, EU and UAE, including the ADGM and DIFC.
Where offshore structures make sense, we support high-level jurisdiction strategy for centres such as Cayman, BVI and other digital-asset–friendly jurisdictions, working closely with trusted local partners.
We also help teams navigate cross-border product flows, including e-money and stablecoin considerations, MiCA touchpoints in the EU, UK financial promotions rules, and UAE VASP standards - offering the kind of clear, commercial guidance founders expect from an experienced crypto solicitor.
Strong products need strong paperwork behind them and this is where a specialist crypto lawyer adds real value.
Across the UK, EU and UAE, we provide transactional and commercial support (working alongside local regulatory partners where needed), including drafting customer-facing terms, platform terms, API and white-label agreements, fintech infrastructure contracts, token risk disclosures and compliant product documentation for both retail and institutional markets, tailored to regional regulatory expectations.
We also review existing agreements to ensure they are enforceable and regulator-ready across multiple legal systems, rather than just “good enough” in one jurisdiction.
In addition, we support stablecoin and payments integrations, merchant acceptance flows and broader cross-border payment frameworks. Practical, hands-on work that founders typically expect from a trusted crypto solicitor rather than a traditional law firm.
Regulation doesn’t need to slow you down, but it does need to be understood.
As your crypto lawyer, we guide teams through licensing considerations at a strategic level, helping identify requirements, sequencing, documentation impacts and overall jurisdictional fit. Alongside this, we execute the legal and transactional work and coordinate with trusted local compliance partners for formal regulatory filings and ongoing obligations.
We also provide practical clarity on how digital asset products can be distributed and marketed across the UK, EU and UAE.
Our work regularly involves helping teams stay aligned with high-impact regimes, including the UK (FCA / AML), EU (MiCA, AMLD) and UAE (VARA, FSRA, DFSA) — ensuring founders have a crypto solicitor who can translate regulation into real-world decisions.
We also identify commercial and documentation risks arising from securities laws, AML/KYC requirements, sanctions rules and marketing or financial promotions restrictions, before those risks turn into blockers.
Token classification is rarely straightforward and it’s one of the most common reasons founders seek advice from a crypto lawyer early on.
We prepare token classification analyses tailored to UK FCA guidance, EU MiCA categorisation and UAE regulatory frameworks.
We also support fundraising processes involving investors operating from, or into, the UK, EU and UAE, ensuring the legal, regulatory and commercial position aligns - a core part of the role of a specialist crypto solicitor supporting growth-stage businesses.
Data protection is one of the most complex, and often underestimated, areas in digital assets.
We advise on EU GDPR, UK GDPR and UAE data protection frameworks as they apply to blockchain protocols and digital asset projects, supporting teams who need a crypto lawyer that understands both regulation and decentralised technology.
This includes addressing issues around immutability, anonymisation and pseudonymisation standards, and decentralised data-controller responsibilities.
We also help map data flows for hybrid on-chain and off-chain architectures that touch UK, EU or UAE users or nodes, an increasingly common request for founders working with an experienced crypto solicitor.
We help founders launch, scale and fundraise with legal clarity from day one.
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