Practitioners highlighted for a distinctive sub-specialty edge in this field — beyond the directory criteria.
ISOLAS LLP · Gibraltar, United Kingdom
Editor's note. Architect of the world's first dedicated DLT regulatory framework (Gibraltar 2018). Chambers FinTech Band 1 ranked counsel for Gibraltar.
Joey Garcia is Partner at ISOLAS LLP in Gibraltar — one of Gibraltar's oldest and most prominent law firms and the principal counsel on the development of the Gibraltar Distributed Ledger Technology regulatory framework. Garcia was one of the architects of the world's first dedicated DLT regulatory framework launched by the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission in January 2018. His practice covers DLT licence applications, crypto-asset fund formation, blockchain technology law, and the broader Gibraltar fintech regulatory landscape.
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Cahill Gordon & Reindel (CahillNXT) · United States
Editor's note. Chambers Global Band 1 — one of only three US lawyers at the top band for blockchain & cryptocurrencies. Combination of 20+ years capital-markets seniority and crypto-asset depth is distinctive.
Lewis Cohen is Partner and Co-chair of the CahillNXT crypto-and-digital-assets practice at Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP in New York. Previously co-founder of DLx Law, joined Cahill in May 2024 to expand the firm's crypto practice. With 20+ years as a traditional capital-markets and finance partner at two Global Top 50 law firms, Lewis is recognised by Chambers Global as one of only three lawyers in "Band 1" for Legal: Blockchain & Cryptocurrencies in the USA.
Full profile → Editor's note. Founder of Dilendorf Law Firm — one of the first US digital-asset-dedicated practices, founded 2017. Distinctive track record on consumer-arbitration matters against major exchanges.
Max Dilendorf is Founder of Dilendorf Law Firm in New York, one of the first US attorneys to dedicate his practice to digital-asset law. He founded the firm in 2017 and has 15+ years of experience advising US and international clients on digital-asset custody, regulatory compliance, asset protection, estate planning, cybercrime recovery, and cross-border structuring. He has represented clients in 130+ consumer arbitration matters against major crypto exchanges including Coinbase and Gemini.
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Davis Polk & Wardwell · United States
Editor's note. Lead M&A partner on the largest crypto acquisition of 2025 — CoreWeave's USD 9bn all-stock take-out of Core Scientific. Davis Polk's go-to deal counsel for crypto-adjacent transactions.
Michael Gilson is a Partner in Davis Polk's Mergers & Acquisitions practice in New York, elected partner in July 2022. He advises US and international corporate and private equity clients on public and private transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, investments, joint ventures, spinoffs, restructurings, and special-committee representations. He led Davis Polk's representation of CoreWeave on its USD 9 billion all-stock acquisition of crypto miner Core Scientific — the largest crypto-asset M&A transaction of 2025.
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Clifford Chance · Singapore
Editor's note. Singapore Partner in a global digital-assets team — the kind of dual EU-and-APAC coverage MAS-track firms increasingly need.
Lena Ng is a Partner in Clifford Chance's Singapore office and a member of the firm's Global Digital Assets and DLT working group. Her practice covers the Singapore Payment Services Act regime for Digital Payment Token services, MAS supervision, and cross-border crypto-licensing strategy for Asia-Pacific clients.
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SBSB Fintech Lawyers · Lithuania, Estonia, Czech Republic, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, El Salvador
Editor's note. Managing Partner of a multi-jurisdictional firm with documented offices and crypto-licensing practice across nine countries — one of the few practitioners running named, cross-border crypto advisory at this geographic scale.
Yuliya Barabash is Managing Partner of SBSB Fintech Lawyers, a firm she has led since 2013. SBSB has offices across Lithuania, Estonia, the Czech Republic, the United Kingdom, the UAE, Costa Rica, Italy, Mauritius, and El Salvador, with a practice focused on crypto licensing, AML/CFT compliance, and cross-border fintech advisory.
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