BLOCKCHAIN & DIGITAL ASSETS
At Mararu & Mararu, we’re thrilled to combine our technical acumen with exceptional client service to guide you through and help navigate the exciting and dynamic world of the blockchain and digital assets ecosystem. It is typical for our firm to dive into the technology, your business model and white-papers, and even read the code, understand your blockchain protocol and algorithms if needed in order to secure the best legal support with your legal, regulatory, consumer, licensing and business needs, goals, challenges and plans. Mararu & Mararu SCA advises startups, holdings, venture capital firms, broker-dealers, exchanges, large crypto investors and other FinTech and financial institutions on issues involving cryptoassets and stablecoins, ICOs, IPOs, security tokens, utility tokens, crypto mining, digital wallets, advanced customised/localized Howey tests, digital payments, decentralized finance (DeFi), protocol design, decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), and Web3 more generally. We provide counsel on the challenges and benefits of distributed ledger technology (DLT) and blockchain technology, cryptocurrencies and other digital assets as assessed against a fluid and rapidly evolving regulatory landscape. The integrated, cross‑disciplinary advice we provide spans regulatory, licensing, registration and authorisation, transactional, tax, intellectual property, data privacy and security, litigation and policy matters. We bring to bear a broad base of legal expertise and market knowledge, regularly providing insights into emerging and complex issues, including the intersection of cryptoasset regulation and securities law, the transposition into the Romanian legal system of the Fifth Money Laundering E.U. Directive by virtue of Government Emergency Ordinance no. 111/2020 (“GEO”) which came into force on 15th July 2020, the future of crypto enforcement and intellectual property rights within a Web3 environment. For almost a decade, we’ve been the go-to law firm in Romania for crypto venture capital partners, crypto labs and business incubators, investors and operators, being routinely engaged in and retained by a wrath of clients in the areas of fintech, crypto assets recovery and enforcement, financial services litigation, financial services regulatory and securities regulation and litigation.
Crypto Regulatory Due Diligence & Compliance
No matter the crypto business, project or venture you’re pursuing, you’ve come to the right place. We partner with active or prospective clients in the blockchain and digital assets ecosystem, assisting them with incorporation services, with providing high-level overviews, memoranda of law, executive summaries or full-throttle due diligence reports, advising them on legal and regulatory compliance, AML, KYC, data privacy and security, intellectual property, long-distance contracts and other terms and conditions and policies, as well as on tax, corporate and on business matters.
FinTech Full-Service in Romania
We partner with established or prospective FinTech clients, assisting them with branch, subsidiary or start-up incorporations, licensing and with ongoing legal services for their Romanian operations, advising them on crypto, financial and securities regulatory compliance, data privacy and security, intellectual property, long-distance contracts and other terms and conditions and policies, tax, corporate, labor, advertising, marketing, insurance, business and virtually every other legal matter necessary for their activity in Romania, either as a resident company or via a passportable business throughout the E.U.
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Mon - Fri: 9am - 6pm
11F Carpatilor Street
075100 Otopeni, Romania