What we do?
We represent blockchain / cryptocurrency businesses. This involves:
Blockchain Legal Advice
Fractional General Counsel legal advice. Acting as a lawyer for corporate officers solving crypto legal issues.
Adding Value
Increasing the value of your crypto business to investors, for mergers, and acquisitions.
Reducing Risk
Anticipating and Preventing Problems. Reducing the risk of crypto businesses.
Fractional
General Counsel
We offer fractional general counsel legal services for cryptocurrency and blockchain businesses. Some choose not to have an in-house legal department but rather employ lawyers with experience across multiple businesses. This is “fractional general counsel.” We use our extensive-specialized experience to solve most business problems. We find, hire, and manage outside counsel to solve the remaining challenges, all to benefit our crypto clients.
Learn How to Recover
Have you suffered a loss exceeding $200,000 from a theft or scam?
Whale.Law attorneys accomplish what few lawyers believe possible. We can recover stolen or scammed cryptocurrency. The amounts must be large. Expect a pre-litigation investigation. The amount recovered will be, at most, 60%. Yet, we accomplish what no other law firm can.
Crypto
Company Formation
Investors and Government Regulators look at your document filings when judging your business. The quality of your business documents directly affects the value of your business. Your business documents directly affect how you fare when “crypto winter” storms threaten.
Common errors are made when a business is formed. Employees download “form” documents thinking they are all the same, only to later have the business in serious trouble.
IMMEDIATE-FAST IMPROVEMENTS
SPACs – Special Purpose Acquisition Corporations
Crypto Business
Licenses
Operating
Agreements
Stock
Certificates
DAO Decentralized Autonomous Organization “legal wrappers,” corporate structure, and formation.
Articles of Incorporation (a.k.a. Certificates of Formation a.k.a.
Articles of
Organization)
Licenses for Individuals (SEI, Series 7, Series 3, Series 57,
Series 63,
Series 65)
By-Laws
Adding Value for Investors and Reducing Risk
Businesses that are up and running should increase their worth and avoid legal risks
New Customer / Investor Applications
Custom Contracts
PIIAA - Proprietary Information and Invention Assignment Agreement
SAFT – Simple Agreement for Future Tokens
Founder's Agreement
SAFE – Simple Agreement for Future Equity
Business planning, formation, and
structuring
AML - KYC - KYT Anti-Money Laundering - Know Your Customer
NCA - Non-Compete Agreement (Covenant Not to Compete, or Restrictive Covenant)
NDA - Non Disclosure Agreement (Confidentiality Agreement)
SEC Securities and Exchange Commission - CFTC Commodity Futures Trading Commission - Compliance
Recovering Scammed or Stolen Crypto
Crypto EXCHANGE ISSUES ADDRESSED
Security Token Offering (“STO”)
Initial Exchange Offering (“IEO”)
Decentralized Finance (“DeFi”) Tokenization
Real Estate & Real World Asset ("RWA") Tokenization
International Offerings, IPO
NFT - Digital Collectables
ATS - Alternative Trading System - Registration - Compliance
Token Letter – Legal opinion letter to list a crypto token on an exchange
what makes whale.law different?
Superior experience in quality and quantity marks our difference. Our lawyers are no rookies. Mr. Hamilton has decades of experience in court, in jury trials, winning cases as senior counsel.
Most crypto and blockchain lawyers are relatively new to the law. They lack the necessary years of experience our lawyers have earned.
Some crypto law firms brag about their “coding experience” or “crypto gaming” history. Such experiences are fine, and help with familiarity with blockchain industry terms and user experiences. However, one wants a lawyer with superior legal and crypto experience.
Our lawyers have lead counsel experience, and are not just “on the team,” performing basic legal functions. Our lawyers are in court lawyers, in the field lawyers. We have not spent our careers behind a desk reading memos and writing letters. You are paying a lawyer to help you with technical areas in which you are not experienced; you are not hiring a comrade to “talk shop.”
Our lawyers have spent their professional careers solving legal problems and managing client risk. It is said that “a Jack of all Trades is Master of None,” and this is true. There are only so many hours in a day, and a lawyer must pick the areas to develop specialized knowledge and skill. We solve and avoid big problems for blockchain.
Investor Funding SEcured
Crypto businesses typically complete several funding rounds. We help increase funding amounts, smooth the transaction process, lead you to legal compliance, and deal with the problems that arise.
