Gabriel Lakeman

Gabriel’s recent experience includes advising:

Super-Apps and Innovative Securities Platforms

• FTMO on the acquisition of OANDA Global Corporation, the online trading group
• A market-leading fintech that provides payments, traditional financial instruments, and cryptoasset services on restructuring its group to comply with regulatory requirements
• Goldman Sachs on building its first UK retail investment platform, Marcus Invest
• A listed retail securities broker on structuring its global expansion and product offering to comply with regulatory requirements across EMEA, APAC and LATAM
• Leading a global investment bank on its MiFID II implementation
• A tech startup on structuring and launching a first-in-kind platform for company private capital-raising

Digital Assets and Web3

• Hidden Road Partners CIV NL B.V. (the Netherlands entity of Hidden Road), the global credit network for institutions, on obtaining a MiCA license by the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets
• eToro on its regulatory strategy for provision of traditional financial instruments and cryptoassets
• A leading cryptoasset exchange on development of new products and provision of services on a cross-border basis
• The financial advisers to Coinbase Global on the cryptocurrency exchange platform’s US$43 billion direct listing on Nasdaq  
• Multiple clients on the structuring and regulatory treatment of Web3 platforms and digital asset distribution including initial coin offering (ICO) transactions

Payment Services and Systems

• The initial purchasers of a US$2.175 billion and £600 million notes offering supporting GTCR’s acquisition from FIS of a majority stake in Worldpay, a leading global provider of payment processing solutions, on regulatory aspects of the acquisition
• The Central Bank of Egypt on the formulation of a new banking law and regulatory regime governing payment services and systems