Javier Pascual Maldonado
Socio | Partner
javier.pascual@actlegal-spain.com
34 626 27 59 87
34 91 577 98 19
Javier Pascual Maldonado
Background
Javier is a lawyer and partner in the Fintech area.
He has advised numerous companies in the areas of technology, Fintech, commercial law, and in general, projects related to blockchain technology. He has been involved in multiple procedures to obtain licences, authorisations, and administrative registration in the Fintech area.
He has a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Valencia and earned a dual LLM in Law and Technology from IE Law School.
Javier has been a lecturer at different centres and has participated in various conferences on law and technology (IE Law School, ICAV, IFAES, Technical University of Valencia, South Summit, StartupGrind, Malta AI & BC Summit).
Areas of practice
- Financial and banking
- Privacy and data protection
- Fintech regulatory
- Technology and digital media
Sectors
- Blockchain
- Digital economy
Main areas of experience
- Legal advice on regulatory and non-regulatory matters to some of the largest crypto asset exchanges.
- Legal advice on numerous public offerings of securities, NFT, ICO, and STO issuances.
- Legal advice to two projects that were pre-admitted to the regulatory sandbox overseen by the Bank of Spain.
- Legal advice to payment institutions, electronic money institutions, financial aggregators, PFP, financial advisory companies.
- Advice to numerous crowdfunding, consumer credit, and financial intermediation projects.
- Legal advice to other tech innovation projects in areas such as quantum computing, artificial intelligence applied to data analysis, crypto assets and decentralised finance (DeFi), and digitalising the corporate secretariat.
- Promoter, along with other jurists, of the registration of articles of association clauses that allow partners’ meetings to take place in writing and without sessions (‘Boardchain clauses’).
Education
- Dual LLM in Law and Technology – IE Law School.
- Bachelor of Laws – University of Valencia.
Teaching experience
- Professor of smart contracts course – IFAES.
- Professor of legal tech course – Valencian International University (VIU).
Languages
Spanish, English, and French.
Publications
- Partners’ meetings in writing and without sessions (Almacén de Derecho).
- Tokenization of assets (Legal Today).
- Electronic signatures as an obstacle for Legaltech (Legal Today).
- ‘Let’s not undigitalise what has been proven to work’ (Legal Today).
- The risk of automation in the legal sector (Legal Today)
- RPA in the legal sector: the real legaltech (Legal Today).
- Probative force of documentation uploaded to blockchain (Legal Today).
Memberships
- Member of the Madrid Bar Association.
- Member of the Legal Committee of Alastria.
Madrid
+34 91 577 98 19
Málaga
+34 91 577 98 19
Valladolid
+34 983 30 40 15
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