Unleash the power of your
Blockchain / STO / ICO project
with ICO Legal Advisor
Unleash the power of your
Blockchain / STO / ICO project
with ICO Legal Advisor
Make your STO or ICO project successful
The success of a Security Token Offering (STO) or of an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) project depends on various factors. One of the most important is the legal assessment of the project. Althought the industry of Blockchain is quite unregulated, when dealing with other people’s money it’s crucial to make sure that the STO or ICO project is not breaking any laws every step of the way. With our STO and ICO legal advice we help Blockchain, STOs and ICOs projects avoiding legal issues that can compromise the entire activities.

STO & ICO Legal Services
We help STO & ICO projects to protect their and the investors’ interests
White Paper
White Paper Legal Assessment
Read MoreRegulatory
Regulatory Aspects Evaluation
Read MoreSTO Prospectus
STO Prospectus
Read MoreToken Model
Token Model Review
Read MoreSTO/ICO Agreements
STO/ICO & Commercial Agreements
Read MoreCorporate & Tax
Company Structure & Tax Evaluation
Read MoreSource of Crypto Funds
Certification of Source of Crypto Funds
Read MoreWhite Paper legal assessment
ICO Legal Advisor provides a legal assessment of the White Paper of the STO/ICO and provides STO and ICO legal advice about the issues and risks related to the project, since investors, regulators (and even courts) rely on the white paper to understand how the new issued token works. ICO Legal Advisor coordinates as well its process with the technical team and advisors who work on the functioning of the coin/token model and the business model.
Token Model Review
ICO Legal Advisor provides a legal assessment and a complete review of the token model adopted by the STO or ICO project, in order to verify the compliance of such model with the law and regulations, and suggests the possible remedies for potential issues.
Regulatory aspects evaluation
The issuance of new coins or tokens requires a regulatory check, in order to ensure the full compliance with all the possible regulations which are in force, including AML. ICO Legal Advisor moreover verifies if the issuing of the new coins or tokens requires or not a prior authorization from any financial authority. ICO Legal Advisor verifies if the new issued coins or tokens shall be considered as:
(i) Payment Tokens
(ii) Utility Tokens
(iii) Asset Tokens
according to the definition provided by the FINMA (the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority), with all the legal consequences with reference to the Anti Money Laundring regulation.
KYC/AML Legal Aspects
ICO Legal Advisor provides a legal review of the KYC (Know Your Customer) / AML (Anti Money Laundering) model adopted for the ICO/STO project, and works closely with the external provider engaged by the project for such activity.
STO/ICO & Commercial Agreements
ICO Legal Advisor helps clients in drafting the Terms & Conditions, as well as the Token Sale Agreement, related to the STO/ICO project, taking into account all the relevant juristictions and the applicable laws for the public or private token sale, by providing ICO legal advice on such matters.
ICO Legal Advisor helps, as well, its Clients with the drafting and the reviewing of all the STO/ICO project related agreements, including any kind of commercial agreement the project may need (i.e. Memorandum of Understanding, Financing agreement, Employment agreement, Advisory agreement, etc.).
Company Structure & Tax Evaluation
ICO Legal Advisor helps the ICO/STO project to evaluate which company structure is the most appropriate for its purposes, and helps its Clients with the incorporation, administration and management of the Company needed in order to run the ICO/STO project. Through its partners network ICO Legal Advisor helps the ICO/STO project with accounting & bookkeeping, tax declarations, insurances, secretarial services, domiciliation services, payments, payroll.
ICO Legal Advisor advises as well on the possiible tax treatment for the kind of company chosen for the ICO/STO project and also for the founders and for any other subject holding the tokens issued with the ICO/STO.
Legal Audits
The launch of an ICO/STO is a FinTech activity which is quite unregulated in most of the jurisdictions. ICO Legal Advisor provides legal audit services focused on the verification of the compliance of the ICO Project internal processes and documentation to the existing best practices in the ICO/STO blockchain field, and to the existing local regulations (where applicable).
ICO Legal Advisor provides its Clients as well with the legal audit of the smart contracts related to the ICO/STO project, by verifying that the smart contract implements and execute the token sale procedure exactly as described in the ICO/STO white paper and website.
The service is provided in different options to cover both the security and the mechanics of token sale in order to get a comprehensive audit report. If there are any vulnerabilities or issues found, ICO Legal Advisor will provide recommendations to eradicate them.
Certification of Source of Funds
Among our ICO legal services, we help HNWI to bank their assets originated from their crypto wealth. ICO Legal Advisor performs an indepth analysis of all the documents, the traces and evidence, to track, back to the source, any amount of crypto funds. Our activity is backed by blockchain forensics experts and investigators. The goal of this activity is to deliver to our customer a certification of source/origin of the funds that can be used to bank the funds.
STO Prospectus
ICO Legal Advisor helps its clients with the drafting or the reviewing of the prospectus of the Security Tokens to be issued, if the issuing of the Prospectus is required by the law (i.e. Swiss Code of Obligations and the Swiss Financial Services Act – FinSA or EU Directives 2003/71/EC and 2010/73/EU and the EU Regulation 2017/1129).
Our approach
We are committed to providing you with the best STO and ICO Legal services for the Blockchain industry
Quality
We are proactive and accessible
Quickness
We offer clear and concise solutions
Tailored services
Our aim is to meet every Clients’ need
Our Clients’ Projects
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ICO Legal Advisor – Meet Our Team
We are an array of creative advisors dedicated to doing great work for great clients.

Marco Sala
Founder
Marco is a Fintech and an intellectual property legal specialist with 20 years of experience as advisor for multinational real estate, insurance and telecommunication companies. Marco is founder and CEO at Archilex Consulting SA, a leading Intellectual Property Management and Fintech law consultancy company active in multiple international jurisdictions.
Languages: English, Italian

Thomas Contin
Founder
Thomas is managing partner at Archilex Consulting SA. He is a lawyer with over 15 years of experience with a demonstrated track record in the field of IT, Intellectual Property, RegTech & FinTech Law. Legal advisor for several companies in the blockchain & crypto field. Thomas advises clients from local companies to large multinationals.
Languages: English, German, Italian

Richard Zoni
Tech Counsel
Richard holds a degree in computer science and brings more than 15 years of experience in Business Development to the project. Richard is a Big Believer in Bitcoin and Blockchain and a Crypto Investor. He has an extensive experience in sales management roles at organizations including Nozomi Networks, Amazon Web Services, VASCO Data Security, Itway.
Languages: English, Italian, French
Our Business Partners
ICO Legal Advisor offers to its clients not only ICO Legal services, but a comprehensive network of business partners in pursuance of meeting their needs and providing them with a complete support thorugh all the steps of the Blockchain / STO / ICO project.
Our Business Partners
ICO Legal Advisor offers to its clients a comprehensive network of business partners in pursuance of meeting their needs and providing them with a complete support thorugh all the steps of the ICO/Blockchain project.
Contact Us
LUGANO OFFICE
Headquarter
Via Serafino Balestra, 9 – 69000 Lugano
+41 (0)919225678
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ZUG OFFICE
Crypto Valley Labs
Dammstrasse, 16 – 6300 Zug
+41 (0)445852493
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Zug
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+41 (0)445852493
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ZUG OFFICE
Crypto Valley Labs
DUBAI OFFICE
Boulevard Plaza – Tower 1
Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Boulevard
+97 (0)444 49481
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