Lead: Fintech, Blockchain, Emerging Tech

Akshata Namjoshi

Akshata is a Fintech Lead at KARM Legal, and has experience in the UAE and India. Prior to joining KARM Legal, She was working with the leading law firms in India and UAE. She has advised high net individuals and corporates on Banking, Mergers and Acquisitions, Corporate Debt Restructuring, and Corporate Governance related issues. 

At KARM, she leads the FinTech, Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Tech practice at KARM. She has advised multiple clients on Security Token Offerings and Initial Coin Offerings; fundraising through seed and crowdfunding; setting up of crypto-currency exchanges and, deployment of public and enterprise blockchains. Additionally, she has also advised clients on policies and compliances for use of artificial intelligence in the financial sector. 


Education

  • L.L.M (Corporate and Financial Services Law), National University of Singapore.
  • BA.LLB (Hons.), National Law Institute University, India.

SELECT REPRESENTATION

  • Panelist at Academic-Industry Fintech Conference hosted at American University in Dubai on “The Enablers and Challenges of Fintech solutions in the MENA region", Feb 2020;
  • Panelist at the World Blockchain STO Summit, Dubai Oct 2019 for discussing ‘STOs- Good Bad and Ugly’ in October, 2019.
  • Panelist at the open source ceremony of HLC public Blockhain for discussing ‘Islamic finance and Public Blockchain’, July 2019 https://medium.com/@QitmeerChain/hlc-public-chain-opensource-ceremony-was-successfully-held-in-dubai-hlc-officially-invites-638e
  • Co-presenter at Ministry of Communications and IT, Riyadh on ‘Reshaping Finance with EmergingTech’; August 2019
  • Conducted Roundtable Discussion on “DLT, Blockchain and Law” at a Legal Technology Event on the use of Smart Contracts, hosted and conducted by Forte Markets, April, 2019
  • Legal Trainer for credit courses on ‘Law , Blockchain and DLT’ at the Legal Affairs Department, Dubai.
  • Conducted Training sessions for Deloitte (ME) on ‘Legal Aspects and Market Trends of Blockchain’.

ARTICLES AUTHORED/ CO-AUTHORED

  • Legality of the Smart Contracts in UA, Smart SMB Magazine, January 2019 (https://issuu.com/smartsmb/docs/smartsmb__january_2019)
  • Bahrain leads the Crypto Way, June 2019, The Oath Legal Magazine
  • Regulating Digital Assets, May 2019,The Oath Legal Magazine
  • Impact of UAE’s new FDI Law, Emirates Law Magazine, September 2019
  • Tricking the Right to be Forgotten: One Blockchain at a time, Corporate Investment Times, October 2019
  • The Indian Spring and Emirati Summer of Cryptos, Corporate Investment Times, March 2020

MEMBERSHIPS

  • Member of the Regulatory Fintech Working Group of the Arab Monetary Fund

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