Legal Nodes is built to help founders and global entrepreneurs with a multitude of different solutions. From fundraising and launching products, tokens, and protocols, to wrapping DAOs and planning taxes globally, our platform allows our clients to tap into a network of experts in over 20 jurisdictions.
The Legal Nodes platform keeps tasks organized and easy to track, so you can manage multiple global matters in one place. You can chat with your Virtual Legal Officer (VLO) via the platform too. Your VLO helps manage your different tasks for you, liaising with the experts working on each project, and ensuring all your deliverables are up to standard and delivered on time.
💡 Legal Nodes works best for businesses with companies, founders, and teams spread across multiple countries. Let’s take a quick look at the solutions Legal Nodes can help with the most.
Fundraising
Whether you’re fundraising for your tech company or for your crypto project, Legal Nodes helps by:
Finding the most investor-friendly jurisdiction for your project type by considering factors beyond just legal matters, including tax matters, bank or crypto account setup, jurisdictional operating costs, and investor-friendly regulatory environment.
Suggesting the most suitable legal entities and documentation required for a smooth fundraising process.
Thinking ahead in preparation for global investor interest, and preparing cap tables, agreements, KYC checks, and other compliance and due diligence requirements to ensure your project is ready to pass due diligence and attract the right investors.
We help with legally structuring your investment round, registration of your fundraising company, corporate structuring in preparation for new investment rounds, and equity financing and M&As.
Learn more about our fundraising support for tech businesses and crypto projects.
Launching a token
Legal Nodes helps founding Web3 teams and established crypto businesses launch and issue tokens by:
Giving you an overview of all the most suitable jurisdictions for your token launch and guiding you on matters of tax and banking, as well as suggesting which countries to avoid because of unfriendly or uncertain regulatory environments. We help with identifying which countries might view tokens as securities requiring special licenses, and understanding the legal status of your token and taxes on token sale activities.
Ensuring you stay compliant during and after your token launch. This includes assessing which blockchain token authorizations you might wish to consider and which marketing and consumer regulations might apply to your token.
Making your token launch as attractive as possible for VCs and partners, including undertaking the legal works to ensure the token can be compliantly listed on exchange and exploring the risks and opportunities of launching your token via a token sale or via a launchpad.
We help with token legal opinion, token SPV registration, agreements for private token pre-sale, T&Cs for public token release, token incentives for core contributors, and much more.
Learn more about launching a token.
Launching a product
Legal Nodes helps founding teams and established businesses to launch new products by:
Giving you an overview of all the most suitable jurisdictions for your launch and guiding you on matters of VAT, tax, banking, and payment acquisition questions. We also tell you which countries might have unfriendly regulatory environments.
Ensuring you stay compliant during advertisement and launch. This includes assessing if your product might be qualified as a regulated activity and if so, which licenses you may need. We also assess if you need to undertake compliance measures to satisfy the rules in the EU, the US, the UK, and other countries.
Keeping your business in line with marketing, consumers, and e-Commerce requirements. We help you navigate the local regulations in the market(s) where you plan to launch and make sure you know which information and disclaimers need to be available on your website or app.
Our network of experts helps with everything from product company registration to Terms of Use and general policies, plus B2B agreements for product distribution, KYC & AML policies, and industry-specific licenses and authorizations. We even provide data protection officers if you need one!
Learn more about launching a product.
Wrapping a DAO
Legal Nodes helps build legal structures to protect DAOs and their community by:
Finding the best country to register your DAO. This includes pinpointing the jurisdictions with great regulatory frameworks and risky regulatory frameworks. We also look at other DAO use cases and explore the advantages of registering a DAO.
Preparing your DAO to interact with the off-chain world. We answer questions like, how can my DAO sell tokens to VCs, and even when legally wrapped, how can my DAO still remain autonomous and independent?
Helping to implement governance mechanisms in accordance with the law. We show you how to protect DAO founders, council, and members from legal liabilities, and how to make the process of protocol & treasury management (governance) more transparent for the community.
We’ve helped lots of crypto projects wrap their DAOs in protective and flexible legal structures. We support you with DAO legal wrapper registration, obtaining specific licenses and authorizations, DAO constitution preparation, and treasury management compliance.
Learn more about legally wrapping your DAO.
Maintaining a company
Legal Nodes helps established businesses and teams to maintain their day-to-day business processes by:
Figuring out your tax reporting, accounting, and banking. We guide you on the matters of VAT, KYC checks, tax, banking, and accountancy questions, helping you to see the full picture.
Sorting the legal tasks for hiring a global team. We help you figure out how to grow your global legal team and remain compliant with matters of payroll, employment agreements, and working with freelancers. We also explore payment options for working with an international team.
Securing global protection for your Intellectual Property. We make sure your name, brand, trademark, and other valuable IP are protected in the markets where you plan to promote your products and projects. We also help with IP assigning and transfer to protect the assets of your company.
The Legal Nodes team and our global network of experts help with client and partner due diligence, IP registration and agreements, ESOP formation and management, team agreements, sales process legal support, and advertising and marketing legal support.
Learn more about maintaining your global company.