Combining a strong overarching financial services regulatory offering with a compelling tech practice group, NautaDutilh is well-placed to advise start-ups, established entities and banks across a wide array of fintech-related matters impacting their businesses. Josée Weydert skilled at advising on crypto asset trading, as well as providing advice to clients surrounding the new EU regulation for issuers and crypto-asset service providers - Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation (MICAR). Tech law expert Vincent Wellens co-heads the fintech offering alongside Weydert, and as well as regularly advising on regulatory and licensing issues, he also handles a considerable amount of work on IT-related outsourcing and digitisation projects.
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Key clients

  • ABN Amro
  • Banco Santander
  • Belfius
  • Banque Internationale de Luxembourg
  • BTIG
  • European Investment Bank
  • Finance & Technology Luxembourg
  • i-Hub
  • Intesa Sanpaolo
  • John Deere Bank

Work highlights

Assisting Microsoft in the update of CAA (Commissariat aux Assurances) and CSSF (Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier) local guides to outsourcing and cloud regulation.
Assisting a US payment card services corporation in the potential takeover of a Luxembourg payment service provider.
Assisting a major US based crypto platform on the establishment of a stablecoin with a Luxembourg licensed bank.

Lawyers

Practice head

Josée Weydert; Vincent Wellens