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Prof Dan Hyde

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Work Department

Cryptocurrency & digital assets

Position

Professor Dan Hyde is recognised as a leading lawyer and business coach with a first mover practice in innovation, modern financial regulation, fintech, DLT/applied blockchain, cryptoassets (fungible and non-fungible/NFTs) and emerging technology regulation. He combines his legal, academic and business acumen to align innovation and regulation.

He has represented a number of the Fortune Nfty 50, was a special adviser to the UK Government with its review of information security legislation and authored the first books on cyber law and the international regulation of blockchain and cryptocurrency. Dan also advises governments, banks, universities, entrepreneurs, startups, SMEs, and large blue-chip companies.

An entrepreneur in his own right, he has founded various ventures including Iconiq, a startup tokenising iconic art and artefacts. Dan has delivered talks around the world and commentated on legal developments for major national and international news channels including Sky, BBC and ITV.

Career

Prior to joining Keystone Law in 2023, Dan worked at the following law firms:

• Pennington Manches Cooper
• Howard Kennedy
• Harrison Clark Rickerbys