Technology is challenging established ways of doing business and creating opportunities for existing market participants and new entrants. Seizing the opportunity requires a nuanced understanding of the risks involved. Our team can provide a full spectrum of fintech legal support.
Technology is redefining the financial services sector and the way businesses interact with clients and customers. Your organization must constantly assess what s next. Should we invest in the latest technology even if it might be disruptive to the industry? You need to lead with the right questions will this tool diversify our product range, improve efficiencies, help us manage risk more effectively or reach a wider customer base? The answers aren t always clear cut.
Our multidisciplinary team helps a wide range of clients around the world ranging from banks to private equity and venture capital funds, asset managers, broker-dealers, insurance companies, trading platforms and exchanges. We advise tech businesses on raising funding, investors on investing in tech, companies on the use of distributed-ledger technology and the different ways of harnessing innovation while protecting and enhancing technology rights and establishing efficient compliance with applicable law and regulation.
You need to lead with the right questions will this tool diversify our product range, improve efficiencies, help us manage risk more effectively or reach a wider customer base?
We provide the full scope of local and global fintech legal services covering both day-to-day and highly complex matters. From financing to corporate, data and technology, IP, exit strategies and regulation we advise with your broader business goals in mind. With TOKO, our digital asset creation engine, we help build technology delivery solutions and digital assets.
Technology is challenging established ways of doing business and creating opportunities for existing market participants and new entrants. Seizing the opportunity requires a nuanced understanding of the risks involved. Our team can provide a full spectrum of fintech legal support.
Technology is redefining the financial services sector and the way businesses interact with clients and customers. Your organization must constantly assess what’s next. Should we invest in the latest technology even if it might be disruptive to the industry? You need to lead with the right questions – will this tool diversify our product range, improve efficiencies, help us manage risk more effectively or reach a wider customer base? The answers aren’t always clear cut.
Our multidisciplinary team helps a wide range of clients around the world ranging from banks to private equity and venture capital funds, asset managers, broker-dealers, insurance companies, trading platforms and exchanges. We advise tech businesses on raising funding, investors on investing in tech, companies on the use of distributed-ledger technology and the different ways of harnessing innovation while protecting and enhancing technology rights and establishing efficient compliance with applicable law and regulation.
“You need to lead with the right questions – will this tool diversify our product range, improve efficiencies, help us manage risk more effectively or reach a wider customer base?”
We provide the full scope of local and global fintech legal services covering both day-to-day and highly complex matters. From financing to corporate, data and technology, IP, exit strategies and regulation – we advise with your broader business goals in mind. With TOKO, our digital asset creation engine, we help build technology delivery solutions and digital assets.
We have vast experience in the payments services market, representing organizations throughout the value chain, including banks, payment services providers, card scheme operations, merchants, acquirers, and other technology providers.
We also handle trading and clearing, investment, lending, financial information services, and insurance and in particular how these sectors are affected by developing technologies such as blockchain, AI and machine leaning and robotics technology.
Awards and recognition
Ranked in Fintech, The Legal 500 US 2025
Ranked in Fintech Legal: Data Protection and Cybersecurity, Chambers FinTech 2022-2025
Most Innovative Law Firm, Financial Times
Top ranked in TMT, Chambers Global
Ranked in Fintech, Chambers Global
Moving the Market Forward, FT Innovative Lawyer Awards Asia Pacific 2021
Experience
Advising a major payment services provider (PSP) on its contract documentation with international mobile network operators (MNOs) and corridor providers to permit the PSP s customers to make international money transfers via SMS to the customers of MNOs.
Advising a major payment services provider (PSP) on its contract documentation with international mobile network operators (MNOs) and corridor providers to permit the PSP’s customers to make international money transfers via SMS to the customers of MNOs.
AKD Partners is working with digital asset exchange operator Archax Limited to develop an institutional market for digital securities. We have assisted Archax in establishing first regulated digital Multilateral Trading Facility (MTF) and we have been providing ongoing regulatory compliance as well as transactional support for over two years. Archax has become the first ever digital securities exchange and custodian which is authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in the UK.
Partnership with Bloqhouse leveraging our experience in privacy, regulatory and financial law to provide for the legally compliant tokenisation of real estate assets on a global scale.
Advising a developer of a multi-signature secure digital wallet offering various services for businesses using digital currency to keep bitcoin secure from theft and loss.
Advising a major global bank on its licensing of and investment in companies developing secure ledger and secure transaction services using blockchain technology.
Structuring a USD20 million token offering for a real estate developer to finance a Hong Kong hotel renovation. This involved AKD Partners assembling a consortium of service providers and leading dialogue with the SFC.
Acted for art brokerage Macey & Sons on the tokenisation of a physical painting. A certificate of authenticity and a video of the artists creating their art were hashed into the virtual assets. This was done to establish the provenance and authenticity of the artwork on the blockchain. The smart contract also facilitates the transfer of the artwork s copyright upon the first issuance and subsequent transfer of the virtual asset.
Advising the leading online game platform and game creation system, with regard to its proposed offering of a stored value gift card that stores fiat currency in a digital form that is to be used on their website for purchases and as an in-game currency (called Robux ). Specifically, as part of our work for this client, we analysed all issues arising from the Singapore Payment Service Act and the Hong Kong Stored Value Facilities regulations, in addition to whether such an offering of Robux constitutes a digital payment token service.
Acted for art brokerage Macey & Sons on the tokenisation of a physical painting. A certificate of authenticity and a video of the artists creating their art were hashed into the virtual assets. This was done to establish the provenance and authenticity of the artwork on the blockchain. The smart contract also facilitates the transfer of the artwork’s copyright upon the first issuance and subsequent transfer of the virtual asset.
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Advising Luther Systems, a blockchain development technology company, on its own fund raising and technology solutions to the insurance, property, health and other sectors.
Assisting a major cryptocurrency exchange (one of the largest bitcoin exchanges in the world) on structuring its expansion into a number of jurisdictions in the Asia Pacific region.
Advising a UK retail bank on the roll-out of a novel and bespoke automated treasury services platform that it developed to deliver hedging services to its customers. The hedging and other services provided will include loan modelling, live pricing and booking, management information capture, and debt pool analysis for originators of residential mortgages, credit cards, corporate loans, SME loans and any other type of debt pool that requires hedging.
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Margo Tank is the Global Co-Chair of AKD Partners's Financial Services Sector, and Co-Chair of the Blockchain & Digital Assets group. With over 25 years of experience, she advises financial institutions, commercial enterprises, Fintechs, and technology companies/platforms on the full spectrum of regulatory, compliance and enforcement matters related to the use of technology solutions such as electronic signatures and records, smart contracts, blockchain, embedded finance, opening banking and other means to conduct financial services and other business online in compliance state and federal US laws such as the US Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act (ESIGN) and the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (UETA), and on a global basis. She also advises on the various laws enabling digital assets, such as carbon credits, electronic chattel paper, and controllable electronic records, under the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) Articles 8, 9 and 12.
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Margo also advises on laws enabling money transmission and remittances, including virtual currencies and stablecoins, and other emerging payments mechanisms. She also advises on matters related to privacy and data security, including under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), and on other consumer protection laws, such as the Electronic Funds Transfer Act (EFTA) and federal and state unfair and deceptive acts and practices (UDAP/UDAAP) laws.
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Margo began her legal career as counsel to the US House of Representatives, Committee on Banking and Financial Services. An early advocate for the financial services industry's acceptance and implementation of electronic signatures, she served as counsel to the Electronic Financial Services Council and assisted the group draft and lobby for the federal ESIGN Act and is currently counsel to the Electronic Signature and Records Association, where she works to further electronic financial services policy before Congress and federal regulators. She also is counsel and co-reporter for \"Standards and Procedures for Electronic Records and Signatures (SPeRS).\" She is a member of the American Bar Association's Business Law Section and the Committee on the Law of Commerce in Cyberspace. She is also on the xDTM Standard Board of Governors and is a legal member participant in the Digital Chamber of Commerce and the Global Digital Finance group.
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Margo is ranked in the 2019 through 2024 editions of Chambers Fintech Legal and was named to the National Law Journal's list of Technology Trailblazers. She continues to be ranked in The Legal 500 United States for Fintech, and she is a member of the 2024 Fintech editorial board for Law360. She has written books, articles and surveys on electronic signatures, smart contracts, virtual currency, privacy, financial services websites and mobile apps and more. She co-authored eight editions of Thomson Reuter's \"The Law of Electronic Signatures and Records\" (2012 – 2021) and three editions of \"Standards and Procedures for Electronic Signatures and Records,\" a compilation of guidelines, procedures, checklists and strategies for developing systems to create, deliver, sign, manage and transfer legally enforceable electronic records and signatures in commercial and consumer transactions.
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Other notable publications include Chambers Fintech 2024 Global Practice Guide – USA Contributor; Enabled by Lenders, Embraced by Borrowers, Enforced by the Courts: What You Need to Know About eNotes, MERSCORP Holdings, Inc. (2018); Smart Contracts – 12 Use Cases for Business & Beyond – A Technology, Legal & Regulatory Introduction, Digital Chamber of Commerce in collaboration with Deloitte (2016); Electronic Retail Installment Sales Contract in California, The Review of Banking & Financial Services, Vol. 33 No. 12 (2017).
Mark Radcliffe is a Senior Counsel who practices corporate securities and intellectual property law at AKD Partners in its Silicon Valley office.
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Mark’s practice focuses on representing corporations in their intellectual property and finance matters. During his career, he has represented companies in a wide range of industries from software to semiconductors to entertainment. He is serving as one of the Co-Chairs of the Blockchain and Digital Assets practice since it was organized. He has worked on a wide range of blockchain and other web3 projects: assisting companies in structuring token sales, representing investors in financings, and many NFT issuances.
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His combination of experience in corporate transactions and intellectual property (particularly open-source licensing) make him particularly well suited to assist on blockchain and web3 issues. He has worked on over 1,000 venture transactions. Virtually all blockchain software is licensed under open-source licenses and he is one of the most experienced open source software lawyers in the world.
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Clients particularly value the proactive approach he takes to understanding their needs and the strategic advice that follows.
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He has worked with a number of start-ups who are using token offerings to raise capital in addition to venture financing. He was involved in the effort by the Wyoming Blockchain Coalition to enact statutes to define “utility tokens” which was successful. He represented investors in major token fund raisings, including Telegram and Libra.
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He has worked on a wide range of non-fungible token transactions, assisting companies in developing terms of use for websites selling NFTs as well as \"purchaser agreements\" for the NFTs. He assisted TikTok in their first NFT drop.
Liz Caires is a technology compliance attorney, with over 20 years' experience advising on the adoption of fully digital transactions and processes, including the practical application of law to technology platforms used for electronic signatures, in person and remote electronic notarization, and creation and vaulting of digital assets. \n \nLiz advises both technology platform providers and commercial enterprises across various industries with respect to compliance with laws, regulations and industry standards related to electronic signatures and records, such as:
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The Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act (ESIGN Act), including the creation, management and transfer of Transferable Records
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The Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (UETA) as adopted in a particular state and state law alternatives to UETA
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Articles 8, 9 and 12 of the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) regarding the creation, perfection, transfer and securitization of electronic chattel paper and other financial assets
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State laws regarding remote online notarization (RON) or in-person electronic notarization (IPEN)
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21 CFR Part 11 regarding use of electronic signatures and records by life sciences companies
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Represented industries include technology companies in the electronic contracting or electronic and remote notarization space, as well as commercial entities purchasing such services, such as entities in financial services, FinTech, equipment leasing, mortgage, and other industry sectors.
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Margo Tank is the Global Co-Chair of AKD Partners's Financial Services Sector, and Co-Chair of the Blockchain & Digital Assets group. With over 25 years of experience, she advises financial institutions, commercial enterprises, Fintechs, and technology companies/platforms on the full spectrum of regulatory, compliance and enforcement matters related to the use of technology solutions such as electronic signatures and records, smart contracts, blockchain, embedded finance, opening banking and other means to conduct financial services and other business online in compliance state and federal US laws such as the US Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act (ESIGN) and the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (UETA), and on a global basis. She also advises on the various laws enabling digital assets, such as carbon credits, electronic chattel paper, and controllable electronic records, under the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) Articles 8, 9 and 12.
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Margo also advises on laws enabling money transmission and remittances, including virtual currencies and stablecoins, and other emerging payments mechanisms. She also advises on matters related to privacy and data security, including under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), and on other consumer protection laws, such as the Electronic Funds Transfer Act (EFTA) and federal and state unfair and deceptive acts and practices (UDAP/UDAAP) laws.
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Margo began her legal career as counsel to the US House of Representatives, Committee on Banking and Financial Services. An early advocate for the financial services industry's acceptance and implementation of electronic signatures, she served as counsel to the Electronic Financial Services Council and assisted the group draft and lobby for the federal ESIGN Act and is currently counsel to the Electronic Signature and Records Association, where she works to further electronic financial services policy before Congress and federal regulators. She also is counsel and co-reporter for \"Standards and Procedures for Electronic Records and Signatures (SPeRS).\" She is a member of the American Bar Association's Business Law Section and the Committee on the Law of Commerce in Cyberspace. She is also on the xDTM Standard Board of Governors and is a legal member participant in the Digital Chamber of Commerce and the Global Digital Finance group.
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Margo is ranked in the 2019 through 2024 editions of Chambers Fintech Legal and was named to the National Law Journal's list of Technology Trailblazers. She continues to be ranked in The Legal 500 United States for Fintech, and she is a member of the 2024 Fintech editorial board for Law360. She has written books, articles and surveys on electronic signatures, smart contracts, virtual currency, privacy, financial services websites and mobile apps and more. She co-authored eight editions of Thomson Reuter's \"The Law of Electronic Signatures and Records\" (2012 – 2021) and three editions of \"Standards and Procedures for Electronic Signatures and Records,\" a compilation of guidelines, procedures, checklists and strategies for developing systems to create, deliver, sign, manage and transfer legally enforceable electronic records and signatures in commercial and consumer transactions.
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Other notable publications include Chambers Fintech 2024 Global Practice Guide – USA Contributor; Enabled by Lenders, Embraced by Borrowers, Enforced by the Courts: What You Need to Know About eNotes, MERSCORP Holdings, Inc. (2018); Smart Contracts – 12 Use Cases for Business & Beyond – A Technology, Legal & Regulatory Introduction, Digital Chamber of Commerce in collaboration with Deloitte (2016); Electronic Retail Installment Sales Contract in California, The Review of Banking & Financial Services, Vol. 33 No. 12 (2017).
Mark Radcliffe is a Senior Counsel who practices corporate securities and intellectual property law at AKD Partners in its Silicon Valley office.
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Mark’s practice focuses on representing corporations in their intellectual property and finance matters. During his career, he has represented companies in a wide range of industries from software to semiconductors to entertainment. He is serving as one of the Co-Chairs of the Blockchain and Digital Assets practice since it was organized. He has worked on a wide range of blockchain and other web3 projects: assisting companies in structuring token sales, representing investors in financings, and many NFT issuances.
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His combination of experience in corporate transactions and intellectual property (particularly open-source licensing) make him particularly well suited to assist on blockchain and web3 issues. He has worked on over 1,000 venture transactions. Virtually all blockchain software is licensed under open-source licenses and he is one of the most experienced open source software lawyers in the world.
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Clients particularly value the proactive approach he takes to understanding their needs and the strategic advice that follows.
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He has worked with a number of start-ups who are using token offerings to raise capital in addition to venture financing. He was involved in the effort by the Wyoming Blockchain Coalition to enact statutes to define “utility tokens” which was successful. He represented investors in major token fund raisings, including Telegram and Libra.
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He has worked on a wide range of non-fungible token transactions, assisting companies in developing terms of use for websites selling NFTs as well as \"purchaser agreements\" for the NFTs. He assisted TikTok in their first NFT drop.
Liz Caires is a technology compliance attorney, with over 20 years' experience advising on the adoption of fully digital transactions and processes, including the practical application of law to technology platforms used for electronic signatures, in person and remote electronic notarization, and creation and vaulting of digital assets. \n \nLiz advises both technology platform providers and commercial enterprises across various industries with respect to compliance with laws, regulations and industry standards related to electronic signatures and records, such as:
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The Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act (ESIGN Act), including the creation, management and transfer of Transferable Records
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The Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (UETA) as adopted in a particular state and state law alternatives to UETA
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Articles 8, 9 and 12 of the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) regarding the creation, perfection, transfer and securitization of electronic chattel paper and other financial assets
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State laws regarding remote online notarization (RON) or in-person electronic notarization (IPEN)
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21 CFR Part 11 regarding use of electronic signatures and records by life sciences companies
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Represented industries include technology companies in the electronic contracting or electronic and remote notarization space, as well as commercial entities purchasing such services, such as entities in financial services, FinTech, equipment leasing, mortgage, and other industry sectors.
