UK Trends and Developments
Trends and Developments Contributed by: James Burnie, Kathryn Dodds, Olga Antonova and Holly Joseph gunnercooke llp
gunnercooke llp is the fastest-growing corpo - rate law firm in the UK and has offices in the US, Germany, CEE, Scotland and England. With more than 500 professionals, gunnercooke has a specific specialism in fintech, and has de - veloped its offerings specifically with a view to assisting firms in this sector. This has included being the first major UK law firm to officially ac - cept payment in crypto-assets, to facilitate cli - ents in that sector, as well as having a strong
cultural emphasis on providing predictable fixed-fee charging models, bringing certainty to firms needing to properly budget costs. gun - nercooke’s offering extends beyond pure legal, for example by having an internal dedicated AI team, able to develop AI solutions that clients can implement, as well as an operating partners team able to help fintech clients strategise their business models to seize new opportunities and maximise their value.
Authors
James Burnie is a financial services and regulation partner at gunnercooke llp, with a particular focus on fintech. His work is pioneering and includes advising on the first successful
Kathryn Dodds is a corporate partner at gunnercooke llp, with a particular focus on fintech. She advises on M&A, investments and new forms of corporate structure for Web3
UK-based ICO and the first equity issuance settled on-chain. Recent work has included advising the Mauritius FSC, the Khazakstan AFSA, as well as other regulators, on designing their legal and regulatory frameworks for crypto-assets and sandboxes. He has given evidence to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Blockchain and Crypto-assets, is an adviser to the Law Commission’s DAO panel, and is co-author of the RegTech and PayTech books.
projects. Recent work highlights include leading on: (i) the sale of Attestant, a leading institutional Ethereum staking provider, to Bitwise Asset Management, being the first transaction of its kind in the United Kingdom; and (ii) the global restructure of one of the world’s largest decentralised exchanges. Kathryn’s work has been reported in publications such as the Solicitor’s Journal and Lawyer Monthly, and she is an adviser to the Law Commission’s DAO Panel.
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