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Digital Assets & Web3

O’Melveny helps founders, established projects, and some of the industry’s largest companies harness crypto’s innovative potential.

For seven straight years, O’Melveny named among the top firms serving cryptocurrency and blockchain companies.—Chambers FinTech Legal USA (2019-2025)

O’Melveny helps founders, established projects, and some of the industry’s largest companies harness crypto’s innovative potential.

For seven straight years, O’Melveny named among the top firms serving cryptocurrency and blockchain companies.—Chambers FinTech Legal USA (2019-2025)

Overview Experience Accolades Insights News

Blockchain technology is revolutionizing more than just currency. It’s changing the way we create, socialize, organize, share wealth, and amass the capital to invest in new ideas. The cryptovolution has unlocked the possibilities of NFTs (non-fungible tokens), which allows authentication of digital artwork and images. It has accelerated the boom in DAOs (decentralized autonomous organizations), digital co-ops that provide innovative frameworks for community governance and crowd-funded investment. And it will shape how we navigate the virtual experiences of the coming metaverse.

Clients across multiple industries—issuers, exchanges, miners, project teams, financial institutions, and more—turn to our cross-disciplinary team for help designing their products and services, fundraising, protecting intellectual property, ensuring regulatory compliance, and defending their brand and reputation.

We offer advice on:

Private equity and venture capital financing
Securities
Data security and privacy
Intellectual property and NFTs
Anti-money laundering, KYC, and Bank Secrecy Act regulations
M&A
Capital markets
Initial coin offerings or other token offerings
Taxation and governance of DAOs
Regulatory Enforcement
Litigation

Bitcoin.com

Secured a win for the company and individual developers in the first federal antitrust complaint in the cryptocurrency field. The court dismissed the entire case with prejudice, a significant victory that made new law on the application of the Sherman Act to the cryptocurrency industry and other emerging markets.

Bitmain

After China abruptly prohibited bitcoin mining, helped the largest bitcoin-mining equipment producer in China construct and operate facilities in the US.

Bitwave

Advised Bitwave, developer of an enterprise-focused digital asset finance platform, on its acquisitions of Gilded, a crypto payments and reporting platform, and Exponent Network, a token equity platform.

Canaan

Secured victories for one of the world’s largest manufacturers of crypto-mining machines—and its directors and officers—in federal securities class actions.

Coinbase

Advised one of the most well-known crypto exchanges on its acquisition of FairX, a CFTC-regulated derivatives exchange.

Digital asset exchange

Counseled a major exchange in its responses to DOJ, SEC, and CFTC subpoenas regarding the UST/LUNA crash.

Digital asset exchanges

Leads programs for a number of major exchanges to review and conduct securities regulatory analyses of more than 1,000 digital assets.

DoraHacks

Helped with its US$20 million venture financing.

Forte

Advised the blockchain gaming platform on two financing rounds, which catapulted the company to a valuation of more than US$1 billion.

Soluna Computing

Advised data center company Soluna Computing on the development of bitcoin mining facility in Texas.

Sorare

Helped the player-owned fantasy sports platform become the official NFT Fantasy game of Major League Soccer. As part of the deal, Sorare will launch NFTs for all MLS players.

SuperLayer Labs

Partnered with the company on forming crypto-venture funds and investing in Web3 projects.

Representative Clients

Bitmain

Bittrex

Canaan

CasperLabs

Coinbase

Distributed Network Advisors

Dorahacks

Forte

Rally Network