About

Michael serves as a director and consultant to Web3 businesses. In providing these services, Michael draws upon over 10 years of experience working as an attorney in private practice. He is a former Managing Associate at Ogier in the Cayman Islands and was a key individual in Ogier’s digital asset practice. He is a recognized and recommended lawyer by international ranking agency Legal500 and has been noted as a “rising star” in both 2022 and 2023.

Michael is a thought leader and an industry specialist advising blockchain and virtual asset businesses and projects using offshore entities. He pioneered the use of foundation companies to act as wrappers or service providers to blockchain-related businesses, particularly with respect to decentralized autonomous organizations. He is a published author on the subject.

Michael has advised some of the largest and well known Web3 businesses in the world and has worked on over 100 blockchain-related projects. He has advised household names in the Web3 industry as well as the core teams supporting the largest DAOs in the world. He has worked with layer one protocols, DeFi platforms, centralized finance platforms, centralized and decentralized exchanges, oracles, interchain bridges, grant programs, code audit projects, NFT issuers, stable coin issuers, gaming developers, digital banks, virtual asset proprietary traders, cryptocurrency funds and tokenized funds. He has worked with both regulated and non-regulated entities.

Michael’s prior legal expertise in the Web3 space defines his approach as a director and is a significant value add for any Web3 project seeking to operate out of the Cayman Islands or the BVI.