LEGAL

Corporate Structure

• Structuring the business considering the project's specifics
• • Identifying key factors influencing the choice of corporate structure
  • General recommendations regarding the selection of legal entity structures and jurisdictions
  • Distribution of functionality and assets between companies
  • Maintenance costs, risks
  • Recommendations for working with service providers
• Recommendations for establishing governance bodies and appointing executives
• Recommendations for structuring a company with multiple partners, shareholder agreements
• Operating without establishing legal entities
• DAO, governance through tokens

Compliance, Crypto Licenses and Permits

General overview of legal restrictions and frameworks considering the project's specifics

• General overview of legal restrictions and frameworks considering the project's specifics
• • Existing frameworks, criteria for applicability, general risks
  • Token classification, legal aspects of tokenomics
  • Dependence of the legal framework on project specifics (DeFi, CEX, etc.), choice of company jurisdiction, target audience, potential token buyers, product users
  • KYC / AML
  • Geographical restrictions
  • Data protection
• Crypto licenses and permits
• • Compatibility of the planned business model with available crypto licenses and permits
  • Grounds for operating without specific crypto licenses
• Legal texts on project resources
• • General aspects of the User Agreement
  • General aspects of the Privacy Policy
  • External services deployed on project resources and interaction with them from a legal perspective
• Corporate KYC / AML / CTF policies and legal oversight of other departments
• • General recommendations for preparing internal policies
  • Team training on key aspects of safe interaction with counterparties
  • General recommendations for ensuring legal team oversight over other departments' activities within the project
• Legal Opinion on (1) project token, (2) project structure, and (3) other aspects
• • General recommendations for preparing internal policies
  • General aspects of selecting contractors and preparing legal opinions
  • Risks
• Interaction with regulators, responses to inquiries

Banking, Finance and Payments

• Access to financial instruments and working with them
• • Banks and bank accounts, payment systems, onboarding
  • Crypto assets, selling crypto assets for fiat at the corporate level
• Settlements between group companies
• Receiving funds from users

Assets Management and Bookkeeping

• Overview of bookkeeping based on the chosen business model
• Importance of linking assets to the business, asset origination
• General rules and principles of management accounting

• Overview of possible deal formats with institutional investors
• • Sale of rights to future tokens, possible deal formats (SAFT, Warrants, etc.), and general recommendations
  • Sale of business shares, rights to future shares (SAFE, SPA), general recommendations
  • Legal specifics of relationships with different types of investors
  • Contractual risks
• Legal aspects of conducting public sales
• Reporting to investors, audits

Relations with the Team

Overview of key aspects of structuring relationships with team members

• Deal formats depending on roles
• NDA / NCA / NSA
• Contractual risks

Token-based options

Share-based options

Relations with other Key Contractors

Key aspects of structuring relationships with KOLs, Ambassadors

• Deal formats, pooled deals
• KPIs
• Contractual risks

Key aspects of structuring relationships with CEXs

• Legal aspects of negotiations, types of offered deals
• Required documentation
• Preliminary forms
• Contractual risks

Key aspects of structuring relationships with Launchpads

• Legal aspects of negotiations, types of offered deals
• Required documentation
• Contractual risks

Key aspects of structuring relationships with Market Makers

Intellectual Property

• List of possible intellectual property objects of the project and their registration
• Ensuring intellectual property protection for specific objects
• Copyright on code and possibilities for protecting code rights
• Choosing a licensing regime for the public part of the code (e.g. Smart-contracts)
• Ensuring the transfer of intellectual property from the team to the company

Distribution of Profits

• Methods of distributing project profits
• Controlled foreign company (CFC) issues
• Tax consequences

Liability

• General risks for beneficiaries/founders/key executives
• Types of liability and common mistakes leading to its occurrence

Legal Support Strategy

• Choosing the format of legal support at the project launch stage
• Changing the format at later stages/scaling