About LayerOne Legal
The legal layer
your stack was missing.
Embedded legal and compliance for fintech, crypto and tech scale-ups. Commercial. Fast. Grounded in real operations.
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Why LayerOne Legal
In crypto, Layer 1 is the foundation — the base blockchain that everything else is built on.
It is the infrastructure that has to be right before anything else can work. Not glamorous, not always visible, but the thing that determines whether what sits on top of it holds. That's what LayerOne Legal is. Legal as infrastructure, not overhead.
Our founder has sat in the Chief Legal Officer chair at licensed crypto firms and scaling crypto companies, advised on digital asset structures and fundraising, and navigated regulators across multiple jurisdictions. Base layer decisions are the hardest to undo. Entity structure, regulatory position, year-one contracts: these compound. LayerOne Legal exists to make sure the foundation is right.
The layer everything else depends on
The Founder
Daniel Lo
Daniel Lo is a triple-qualified lawyer admitted in Canada (Ontario and Alberta), England & Wales, and the British Virgin Islands. Over a decade spanning M&A, private equity, offshore funds, and digital assets across private practice and in-house roles at Dentons, Walkers, UBS, RBC Capital Markets, and Cake Group.
He previously co-founded LDU, a startup-focused legal consultancy, and currently serves as Managing Director, Chief Legal Officer and Chief Risk Officer at Acheron Trading, a licensed crypto market maker, bringing live C-level experience to every client engagement.
Daniel is an experienced board director, having sat on the boards of regulated financial entities and been vetted and approved by financial regulators including the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the Autoriteit Financiële Markten (AFM) in the Netherlands.
Good legal counsel should feel like a business partner. Fast, commercial, and connected to the real-world consequences of every decision.
A board member of ACCESS Singapore and former member of the SFA's Web3 Subcommittee. Master of Laws in Corporate Law & Securities Regulation and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science (University of Toronto) · Bachelor of Laws (University of Birmingham) · Legal Practice Course (City, University of London).
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