Blockchain
Frost Brown Todd’s Blockchain team provides strategic guidance and full-scale support to stakeholders across the blockchain ecosystem. A multidisciplinary team, we count among our ranks veteran FinTech, capital markets, regulatory, IP, and cybersecurity attorneys, as well as former engineers and in-house counsel to major banks and technology companies. Leveraging this broad-based expertise, we help clients deliver on innovative blockchain strategies and applications in a variety of industries, including finance, real estate, health care, manufacturing and insurance. Our team also helps clients pinpoint and vet investment opportunities and navigate the patchwork of statutes, regulations, and jurisdiction-specific tax/reporting requirements. To date, our blockchain team has advised clients across all stages and facets of the token generation process. We offer practical, up-to-the-minute guidance on the evolving regulatory regime, helping token developers structure, promote and orchestrate legally sound, commercially viable ICOs, STOs and TGEs.
Battle-tested, practical experience in all aspects of blockchain, token generation and regulation, including:
- Tokenized equity and security token offerings (STOs)
- ICOs structured as Reg A+ and Reg S offerings
- Federal and “blue sky” securities laws
- Data privacy and information security
- Contract disputes
- SEC, CFTC, IRS, and FinCEN actions
- Corporate and fund formation
- Tax considerations for crypto transactions
- Intellectual property registration and dispute resolution
- Distributed applications (DAPPs)
- Blockchain as a service (BaaS)
Trusted advisors to clients across the blockchain ecosystem, including:
- ICOs
- Hedge Funds
- Media Companies
- Consulting Firms
- Venture Capital
- Consortia
- Bitcoin ATM Operators
- Money Transmitters
- Identity Verification Services
- Crypto-investors
In the News
- FATCA in Focus – Are Foreign Cryptocurrency Companies Subject to FATCA?
- What Are The Benefits Of Blockchain In Music? 6 Experts Share Their Insights
- Blockchain Law with Wags
- Blockchain startup The Opinion Economy maps token, ICO, equity offerings
- Blockchain-based initial coin offerings chart uncertain legal terrain
- Emerging smart contracts offer possibilities and risks
- Legislation could codify blockchain in Tennessee
- Beacon Center poll says State incentive wasteful, while Entertainment, Blockchain, other industries mobilize for Capitol Hill action
- How the legal industry is adopting Ethereum-based smart contracts
- More Law Firms Are Accepting Bitcoin Payments
- Is this the next financial scandal waiting to happen?
- Law Firm Now Accepting Bitcoins
- DTCI: Blockchains, Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies: What does it all mean?
- ICO's and the Fed's two minute warning
- Legal field embraces promising use causes for blockchain tech
- Digital Asset enters healthcare as blockchain questions grow
- Self-Enforcing Smart Contracts Will Change Your Life
- Whose sky is it anyway? U.S. drone case tests rights to air space
- Health conference draws global healthcare, technology and blockchain leaders to Nashville
- Exploring the Mystery behind Blockchain
- What Does Blockchain Mean to the Financial Industry?
- Gem founder ranks NVille healthcare sector as a key blockchain market
Press Releases
Publications
- Ohio Enacts Law Acknowledging Blockchain Transactions and Granting Safe Harbor Protections to Eligible Businesses from Data Breach Claims
- Blockchain Beyond Bitcoin (Seminar Video)
- SEC Leaves ICO Questions Unanswered
- Self-Enforcing Smart Contracts Will Change Your Life
- Federal Advisory Committee on Insurance Discusses Blockchain’s Impact on the Insurance Industry
- The Medieval Economics of Cryptocurrency
- ICOs: Cloud-based but likely grounded in regulations
- A Legislative Definition of Blockchain
Industry Highlights
Blockchain & “Smart” Contracts Webinar from FBT's Technology Industry Team
View our YouTube channel for more webinar videos.