Banks, digital asset exchanges brokers, and payments companies trust Simmons & Simmons with an array of licensing, regulatory and product development projects. Cross-border regulatory matters and new digital platform development are areas of particular strength for the team. Practice chair Yingyu Wang has a wide-ranging practice that takes in niche issues in the metaverse and NFT space. She is additionally well placed to advise clients from sectors such as music and digital media who seek to incorporate blockchain technology into their products. At associate level, Ashleigh Low is well versed in matters with a cryptocurrency dimension.
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Key clients
- Acala Pte Ltd
- Achip & Achair Guild Ventures Pte. Ltd.
- Booking .com/Agoda Company Pte. Ltd.
- Ant Group Co., Ltd./Anext Bank Pte. Ltd
- Blockfort Pte Ltd
- Coinbase Global, Inc./CB Payments Limited
- Copper Technologies (UK) Limited
- D’light Law Group
- Goldzip Digital Pte. Ltd.
- Infinity Interaction Pte Ltd
- Libecciotech Singapore Pte Ltd
- Orbis Blockchain Technologies Limited
- Salad Ventures Limited
- SevenPlusOne Pte Ltd
- Shin Woong Um
- Shopline Technology Holdings Pte Ltd
- Oppo/Sky Royal Trading Limited
- Solutions Lab Pte. Ltd.
- Steelhenge Pte Ltd
- Superlayer Labs Management, LLC
- TDX SG Pte Ltd
- TMI Associates
- Trovio Pte. Ltd.
- UppFirst SG Pte Ltd
- Yield Guild Games SEA Limited
- Sequoia Capital
- Gozem
- Hashed
- Torus Labs
Work highlights
- Advised Agoda/booking.com on regulatory issues pertaining to ‘buy now pay later’ schemes.
- Advising Ant Group on legal and regulatory issues pertaining to proposed merchant acquisition services.
- Assisting Coinbase with its response to its cross-border survey of stablecoin laws and regulations, and to create its proposed business model in respect of wallet and cryptocurrency payments.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Yingyu Wang