Selected counsel

A practice is best understood by the work it has done.

Cases are described at the level of detail confidentiality permits; clients, regulators and counterparties are not named. Further detail comes in confidential conversation.

2026 · UAE
Counsel on commercial space-resource positioning under the UAE national framework and the Artemis Accords.
Built a defensible ownership posture in the open tension between Article II of the Outer Space Treaty and the Accords-aligned national regime — structured to survive an adverse multilateral turn, with the jurisdiction and contractual architecture chosen for exactly that.
Space law · Resource rights
2026 · INTL
Drafted a consultation response on orbital-debris liability standards for an emerging operator coalition.
Advanced a workable, fault-allocating liability standard into a live multilateral drafting process — written for the regulators who would read it first, and offered as a standard they could adopt without losing the public interest.
Policy · Advocacy
2026 · UAE
Drafted the Riskless Principal Execution Framework for principal-execution broker-dealers.
A pre-funding architecture defining requirements for client orders above an agreed threshold, protecting the firm's net liquid asset buffer while preserving execution speed for institutional flow. Built to be reused, with custom thresholds, across VARA, SFC Type 1 and MAS regimes.
Regulatory · Supervisory
2025 · UAE
Structured tokenised distribution for a regulated fund under a permissioned standard.
Transfer restrictions, identity and eligibility were moved into the instrument itself under ERC-3643, so the regulator saw a controlled token rather than a bearer one. The structure cleared without a new licence category.
Emerging tech · Tokenisation
2025 · CH
Counsel to a Geneva family office on lawful access to Indian institutional capital through GIFT City.
Defined the structuring path, regulatory choreography across IFSCA and the receiving authority, and the counterparty diligence required for first commitment. The family office made its initial allocation within nine months of engagement.
Capital · Cross-border
2025 · HK
Designed and deployed a three-tier operating model for a regional services group; rebuilt the firm around what humans were actually for.
The model classified every decision into one of three tiers — human, governed under review, automated. The firm became materially faster with a clearer point of view and a board that knew how to talk about it.
Artificial intelligence
2025 · IN
Counsel to a first-time founder through a board fracture and capital reset; the founder retained operational control and meaningful equity into the next round.
The work spanned six months and three jurisdictions. It involved board negotiations, an investor restructure, a co-founder departure, and the rebuilding of a senior team.
Founder · Capital
2025 · SG
Repositioned a MAS-regulated platform from compliance burden to acquisition asset ahead of a strategic round.
Counsel reframed the firm's regulatory posture from a cost centre into the principal asset of the deal — a licence competitors could not replicate — and rebuilt the data room around it. The reframing materially shifted the conversations with strategic acquirers.
Capital · Pre-exit
2025 · UAE
Crisis communication architecture for a regulated firm during an adverse regulatory cycle.
Drafted communications across six audiences over four weeks: regulator, board, investors, customers, employees, press. The firm's standing across all six was preserved through the cycle.
Crisis communication
2025 · IN
Brand repositioning and marketing playbook for a consumer firm re-emerging after a strategic pivot.
The relaunch was architected to acknowledge the prior chapter without being defined by it. The firm regained category share within two quarters and renewed for ongoing narrative counsel.
Brand · Marketing

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