Blockchain Technologies
Our team takes an inquisitive approach to technological developments and benefits from a network of legal expertise. Our interdisciplinary, tech-savvy team advises companies on all legal and regulatory issues where financial services and information technology overlap. Our team support clients in the development, implementation and legal protection of new business models, as well as in the distribution and marketing of innovative services and products. Our clients include startups, established financial institutions, large technology companies and investors with a focus on blockchain, DLT and digitalisation.
Taking a holistic approach, we offer you comprehensive expertise in the fields of law of intellectual property, data protection, financial markets, competition, tax, telecommunications, contract, corporate and notary law.
We attach great importance to pragmatic and solution-oriented advice and help you to realistically assess and act on both opportunities and legal risks in this new, digital world.
Our team offers you access to experts in the field of blockchain & distributed ledger technology (DLT) and competent advice on the following interdisciplinary topics:
- Development and implementation of comprehensive structuring, strategies and measures to create, maintain and protect digital business models and platform solutions
- Regulatory reviews (qualification of tokens and business models, licensing and registration requirements in all financial market areas and obtaining no-action letters)
- Coordination with and representation before supervisory authorities (such as FINMA, SNB, SROs, AOs) and courts, conducting relevant preliminary clarifications and proceedings
- Examination of tax structuring options and coordination with the responsible tax authorities for direct and indirect taxes (obtaining tax rulings)
- Comprehensive support for coin/token issuing projects (ICOs/STOs/IEOs/TGEs/etc.) (Company founding, creation of prospectuses and basic information sheets)
- Infrastructure for the global, digitalised economy
- Digitalised capital market, digital (equity/debt) financing structures, tokenisation and documentation
- Fintech, insurtech, regtech and Legal Tech
- Artificial intelligence, machine learning & autonomous systems
- Cyber security
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“One of the best legal providers for new technologies including crypto & blockchain I have met in my career so far”
Publications
The Legal 500 Country Comparative Guides 2025 – Switzerland: FinTech
The Legal 500 Country Comparative Guides 2025, March 2025- EN
Panoramic Cryptoassets & Blockchain Switzerland 2025
Lexology, 7 November 2024- EN
Corporate Adoption of Blockchain – Legal Pitfalls
Tuesday, 11 June 2024, WEBFEST 2024 Day 6: Kilian Schärli's presentation on "Corporate Adoption of Blockchain - Legal Pitfalls" in Zurich- EN
Staking Services Regulation in Switzerland
The International Journal of Blockchain Law, Volume 8, March 2024, Global Blockchain Business Council, pages 21 - 25- EN
Firm News
Kilian Schärli and Michael Reinle | Lexology Client Choice Dinner | 6 March 2025 | London
MLL Legal Advises Validation Cloud AG in its Series A Financing and Prior Convertible Loan Financing
MLL Legal shortlisted 6 times for IFLR Europe Awards 2025
Kilian Schärli and Michael Reinle win the Lexology Client Choice Award 2025 – For the Second Year in a Row
MLL Legal | Delegation of the United Arab Emirates | Global Blockchain Synergy | Crypto Valley | Zug | 4 March 2024
News Portal
FINMA Guidance 08/2024 Governance and Risk Management when using Artificial Intelligence
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the financial market is on the rise, presenting both opportunities and risks. FINMA emphasizes in its new Guidance 8/2024 the need to properly identify, calibrate, and manage these risks. While there are no specific laws on AI in Switzerland, existing regulatory requirements concerning governance and risk management also apply to AI. This is in line with the technology-neutral and principle-based financial market regulation.
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FINMA Circular 2025/2 Code of Conduct under FinSA/FinSO
Around five years after the entry into force of the Financial Services Act (FinSA) and Financial Services Ordinance (FinSO), FINMA has issued Circular 2025/2 (the Circular), making specific aspects of its regulatory practice public. The provisions aim to increase transparency towards clients in the provision of financial services.
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Act on the Transparency of Legal Entities
On 22 May 2024 the Federal Council adopted the dispatch on the new Transparency Act for Legal Entities to be submitted to the Swiss parliament. The bill introduces a new federal register of beneficial owners of legal entities as well as new due diligence duties for risky activities in the legal profession, following the purpose of enhancing effectiveness of the Swiss framework for combating money laundering and terrorist financing. Furthermore, the bill aims compliance with international standards set by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).
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Agreement between Switzerland and the United Kingdom (UK) on Mutual Recognition in Financial Services
On 21 December 2023, Switzerland signed a first-of-its-kind financial services agreement with the UK (Agreement) after two years of talks which began after the UK left the EU. The Agreement uses outcomes-based mutual recognition of each jurisdiction’s financial services regulatory and supervisory regimes to facilitate cross-border trade in financial services to wholesale and sophisticated clients on the basis of deference, domestic law or other arrangements:
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Swiss Regulator FINMA Introduces New Internationally Leading Staking Services Regulation
FINMA published its new FINMA Guidance 08/2023 “Staking” clarifying the regulatory requirements for providing custody staking services in Switzerland in connection with validation services in proof-of-stake (PoS) protocols. This creates full legal certainty for such services, which brings Switzerland at the forefront in crypto regulations.
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