Solicitor Services
We are at the forefront of legal developments in the crypto world and are well equipped to assist you in structuring your crypto startup to best accommodate the ever-evolving web 3.0 landscape.
Securitization Risk
We assist companies and individuals who are launching tokens, including through initial coin-offerings (“ICOs”) or initial token offerings (“ITOs”) to reduce their risk of being labeled a security.
Whitepapers
If you are launching a project, we review whitepapers to ensure they are compliant with applicable consumer laws and securities regulations.
Incorporation
We can help you weigh the benefits and risks of incorporation and can assist you with incorporation in both the Ontario and Federal jurisdictions.
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
We can guide you towards a DAO structure that makes the most of the novel community-based management approach while maintaining legal compliance.
Tax Services
Crypto businesses face unique tax compliance challenges and we work with our clients to anticipate tax liability and to develop strategies to address it.
NDA, Non-Compete and Non-Solicitation
We provide drafting and review services for agreements designed to protect the confidential or proprietary technology that your crypto startup generates. These include non-disclosure agreements (NDA), non-competition agreements and non-solicitation agreements.
Consultancy and Partnership
Your crypto startup may require the services of consultants or the formation of partnerships, and we can draft and review consultancy agreements and partnership agreements to properly govern these crucial relationships.
IP Licensing
As your crypto startup generates intellectual property (IP), you will want to leverage these assets through licensing to third parties. As experienced intellectual property lawyers, we can draft IP licensing agreements that allow you to take full advantage of your creations.
You ask, we answer
Have questions? We’ve got you covered. Browse our FAQs for clear, straightforward answers to the most common questions about your legal rights and how we can help.
This is a complex exercise. Securities regulators rely on tests established under case law to determine whether a token is a security and we can assist you in designing your token launch to minimize the risk of your token being characterized as a security under these tests.
Securities regulators continue to adapt their treatment of crypto projects as the law develops and, as such, completely eliminating securitization risk can be difficult. We can assist you in determining the levels of securitization risk associated with the varying iterations of your business model.
DAOs represent an emerging business structure founded on a decentralized governance model. Unlike traditional business structures that generally concentrate governance and day-to-day operations at the top, DAOs work according to smart contracts to spread these obligations and voting amongst members. DAOs are particularly amendable to reducing securitization risk as members are by definition active in management of the business and are not simply passive investors.
Yes! We can help set up terms that are embedded in the NFT itself where commercial rights are automatically transferred to new and subsequent holders of NFTs!
You want to consider your business structure (corporation, partnership, sole proprietorship), terms of service, and securitization risk. If you are collecting data, such as through an application or website, you also need to have a privacy policy in place. We can assist with all of these.
