Practitioners highlighted for a distinctive sub-specialty edge in this field — beyond the directory criteria.
Manimama · Estonia, Lithuania, European Union, Ukraine
Editor's note. Founder of CLPAI #2-ranked firm Manimama. Author of Ukraine's virtual-asset law and former General Counsel at KUNA — distinctive regulator-side + private-practice combination.
Ganna Voievodina is CEO and Founding Partner of Manimama, the international fintech law firm headquartered in Tallinn (Manimama OÜ) with offices in Lithuania. She has 16 years of legal experience and has been a licensed attorney in Ukraine since 2012. Before founding Manimama, Ganna served six years as Chief Legal Officer of the cryptocurrency exchange KUNA. She is the author of Ukraine's Law "About Virtual Assets" and is pursuing a PhD in international law.
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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.
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Morais Leitão, Galvão Teles, Soares da Silva & Associados · Portugal, European Union
Editor's note. Portugal's most consistently cited crypto-asset regulation author — the GLI Blockchain & Cryptocurrency chapter for Portugal each year carries his name.
Filipe Vaz Pinto is a Partner at Morais Leitão, Galvão Teles, Soares da Silva & Associados (MLGTS) in Lisbon, co-head of the firm's dispute resolution team and a member of the board. He joined MLGTS in 2002 and became partner in 2014. He is the recognised Portugal author for crypto-asset regulation in Global Legal Insights and Chambers — covering MiCA implementation under Law 27/2024, the Banco de Portugal pre-MiCA register transition, and the CMVM's supervisory framework.
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Gide Loyrette Nouel · France, European Union
Editor's note. Ex-AMF Fintech Division founder — the rare French crypto practitioner with deep regulator-side experience plus an active private practice. Distinctive credibility under Hard Rule #24.
Franck Guiader is Head of Practice for Innovation, Digital Finance, Fintech, AI and Web3 at Gide Loyrette Nouel in Paris. Between 2011 and 2018 he was Director of the Asset Management Regulation Division at the French AMF and subsequently established and headed its Fintech, Innovation and Competitiveness division. He is one of the key architects of the Paris financial market's digital-assets framework and a leading voice on MiCA implementation in France.
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A&O Shearman · Spain, European Union
Editor's note. One of Spain's go-to fintech-regulation partners — advised on early Spanish blockchain capital-markets issuances and ranks Band 1 in Chambers Spain Fintech.
Salvador Norberto Ruiz Bachs is a Partner at A&O Shearman in Madrid and one of Spain's recognised fintech and digital-finance practitioners. He is an expert in debt capital markets, derivatives, structured finance, and financial regulation, and has advised on some of the first blockchain capital-markets issuances and ongoing crypto-currency business under the CNMV's MiCA regime.
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CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP · United Kingdom, European Union
Editor's note. Chambers-ranked FinTech partner who also writes a recurring cryptoasset column for Practical Law — a deeper public-record footprint than most MiCA CASP practitioners.
Charles Kerrigan is a Partner in CMS's Corporate Finance team in London and a member of the firm's crypto and digital-assets practice. He writes a regular cryptoasset column for Practical Law (Thomson Reuters) and is ranked by Chambers in FinTech. His MiCA CASP work spans authorisation strategy, governance build-out, and token classification at the MiCA/MiFID boundary.
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