You’re launching a token into the Cayman Islands. Where that token sits under financial services law decides most of your legal path.
Information, not advice
This page is information, not legal advice about your matter. A retainer begins only when a lawyer confirms it.
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Work out what your token legally is, before you build around it
That one answer decides whether CIMA treats it as a virtual asset service, whether SIBA registration applies, and what you may say when you market it.
What to work through, in order
Is the token a financial product?
Whether the token is a security for the purposes of the Securities Investment Business Act, and whether the activity around it is a virtual asset service registrable with CIMA. Most token projects touch the second even where they avoid the first.
Where the issuer sits
An exempted company or foundation company. Foundation companies have become the common vehicle for decentralised projects, and economic substance and beneficial ownership filings both apply.
What you can say before launch
Local promotion rules are narrow, but marketing to investors elsewhere pulls in their regimes. Most enforcement risk for a Cayman issuer comes from the jurisdictions it markets into.
Next steps
What happens if you go ahead
Scoping call
Written scope and fixed-fee quote
Engagement, once a lawyer confirms
Who would handle it
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