# Sidley

> Global law firm advising on blockchain and digital assets

Sidley is a global law firm. It advises on transactional, regulatory, and litigation matters, and runs a blockchain and digital assets practice serving trading platforms, financial institutions, and technology companies.

Sidley is a global law firm serving clients on complex transactional, restructuring, regulatory, investigative, and litigation matters. Its blockchain and digital assets group advises on the legal and regulatory questions raised by tokenization, digital asset trading, and onchain financial products. Clients include digital asset trading platforms, blockchain technology companies, broker dealers, financial services firms, and asset managers.

Blockchain businesses sit across several regulatory regimes at once, and the applicable rules differ sharply between jurisdictions. The firm combines its securities, derivatives, banking, payments, funds, and enforcement practices so a single matter can be handled across those regimes rather than split between specialists. Its lawyers work from offices in commercial, regulatory, and financial centers across the Americas, Europe, and Asia Pacific.

Work in this area covers tokenization of real world assets, stablecoin issuance, token offerings, digital asset fund formation, and lending secured against cryptocurrency. The group also handles disputes and enforcement matters involving decentralized finance protocols, decentralized autonomous organizations, and tokenized assets. Sidley serves emerging companies and established institutions operating in digital assets worldwide.

- Type: Company
- Sector: Accounting and Legal
- Status: Active
- Founded: 1866-01-01
- Profile: https://thegrid.id/profiles/sidley

## Products

- [Sidley Legal Services and Industries](https://thegrid.id/profiles/sidley): Sidley offers legal advisory services via the firm's practice and industry pages covering areas such as banking, payments and fintech, blockchain, artificial intelligence, and other sectors. Clients engage Sidley lawyers for cross-border transactions, regulatory matters, and complex litigation across these practice and industry groups. The offering is accessed through the firm's services directory, which organizes its advisory work by service line and industry. (Service Provider, Live, Main Product)

## Links

- [Main](https://www.sidley.com)
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