Andrew Tzialli is a partner in the Corporate team and head of the firm’s Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Group. Andrew’s practice primarily involves working on corporate transactions, including private equity and venture capital investments, mergers and acquisitions, corporate re-structuring, corporate finance and banking. Many of the transactional matters Andrew works on are for clients that are […]

Andrew Tzialli is a partner in the Corporate team and head of the firm’s Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Group. Andrew’s practice primarily involves working on corporate transactions, including private equity and venture capital investments, mergers and acquisitions, corporate re-structuring, corporate finance and banking. Many of the transactional matters Andrew works on are for clients that are […]

Highlights: Repsol to be cornerstone investor in UK/Spain based Finboot’s latest fundraising round The legal advice to Finboot was led from the London office of Philip Lee, by Andrew Tzialli, Partner and head of the Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Group Finboot will supply Repsol with its blockchain technology solution BlockLabs Finboot’s proprietary software (“MARCO”) uses blockchain […]

As published in the Irish Examiner, Monday 24th June 2019: It is now a decade since the publication of the infamous bitcoin white paper (Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System) and the launch of the bitcoin blockchain. Ten years on and with the imminent launch on Friday 24th May of Blockchain Week in Ireland, how […]

Raising Finance as a Blockchain Business – Securitised Token Offerings and Initial Exchange Offerings vs Venture Capital for Equity Are you assessing your options for raising finance via the STO or IEO route? Or are you exploring the more traditional route of equity finance from VC funds, angel investors or crowdfunding? As part of Blockchain Ireland […]

The AKASHA Foundation announced the opening of a new blockchain innovation hub in Dublin. This new location is a regional branch of the Foundation, which has its headquarters in Crypto Valley, Switzerland, and was founded in 2015 by Ethereum co-founder Mihai Alisie. The opening of this co-working space adds another physical location to a developing […]

Malta, the country with the 32nd highest global GDP per capita, recently achieved what all other international financial and economic powerhouses have either failed or been reluctant to do: it passed a bill introducing a set of rules which formalise the regulation of Initial Coin Offerings (“ICOs”) and cryptocurrency exchanges.  Whilst the Virtual Financial Assets […]

We are delighted to announce Partner Andrew Tzialli will be hosting a workshop on Raising Finance as a Cryptocurrency or Blockchain Business in Talent Garden on September 18th at 9.30am. Andrew Tzialli will explore some of the unique challenges faced by cryptocurrency and blockchain business when raising finance via an ICO or Tokenised Security Offering, […]

In as little as 12 months, Bitcoin has gone from a little known alternative form of e-money to the next “must have asset”. However, some prominent investors are now saying it was a fad whose bubble has burst before it even got going. In my opinion, the reality could not be more different, with cryptocurrency […]