Charles Kerrigan
CMS
Charles Kerrigan is a Partner in the Finance team and part of the specialist Crypto and Digital Assets team at CMS London. He specialises in emerging technologies, including crypto, digital assets, tokenisation, Web3, decentralised finance and artificial intelligence. He advises on corporate finance and venture capital transactions in these sectors, as well as on consulting projects relating to blockchain and AI for public bodies, policy makers, standards institutions and corporations.
Charles has worked on transactions worth over $5 billion funding fintech platforms and has advised more than 500 cryptoasset clients, including global exchanges, blockchain gaming projects, DeFi and Web3 platforms, and clients involved in crypto and digital assets investment, M&A and tokenisation projects for debt, equity and alternative assets. He is part of teams working on investing in and setting standards for emerging technology in the UK, Europe and the US.
In addition to his role at CMS, Charles holds a number of advisory and board positions across the technology and investment landscape, including with Cointelligence Fund, Holistic AI, Hedgehog, the Investment Association Engine, the Association of Real Estate Funds, Big Innovation Centre and AI & Partners. His policy and law reform work has included roles with the UK All-Party Parliamentary Groups on Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain, the Bank of England’s Financial Markets Law Committee on Virtual Currencies, the UK LawTech Delivery Panel, UNCITRAL and UNIDROIT, and the UK Law Commission commercial law team on emerging technology policy.
Charles is also a widely published author and editor on crypto, digital assets and AI law and regulation, including Artificial Intelligence Law and Regulation, Crypto and Digital Assets Law and Regulation, Blockchain & Cryptocurrency Regulation, and other leading practitioner texts. The Blockchain Industry Landscape Overview has described him as one of the UK’s leading influencers on blockchain, and he has been recognised as a recommended lawyer for blockchain and digital technology in the UK Parliament Hub.
