Dan McAvoy takes a practical and knowledgeable approach to the law of digital assets, private funds, securities, and other investments from a transactional, regulatory, fundraising, and formation perspective. As co-chair of the firm’s FinTech and Blockchain practice, he frequently works at the intersection of all of these areas, particularly with respect to: 

• the formation and launch of private investment funds, including those with a digital asset or FinTech strategy;
• offerings by and investments into organizations in the crypto and Web3 space; 
• structuring decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs); 
• navigating the launch of non-fungible token (NFT) projects; 
• asset fractionalization and tokenization; 
• coordinating complex international projects; and 
• helping digital asset organizations comply with the rapidly-evolving regulatory environment. 

Dan has served as lead issuer’s counsel on a wide array of offerings, including private investment fund offerings, IPOs, Regulation A+ offerings, Rule 506(c) offerings, Regulation S offerings, offerings using an array of exemptions from registration under the Investment Company Act, and investment platform structuring.  Dan is a trusted advisor to numerous investment advisers, digital asset projects, DAOs, fund sponsors, broker-dealers, and investors, and has represented a range of organizations, from startups to Fortune 500 companies to unincorporated entities through all portions of the corporate life cycle.

Dan’s funds practice includes fund formation as well as private equity and private company secondaries, such as complex GP-led restructurings of private equity funds, secondary direct investments, and portfolio acquisitions. Dan also has in-depth experience helping overseas fund managers enter the U.S. markets for the first time, including marketing to U.S. investors, formation of parallel and feeder funds, making U.S. investments, acquisitions, and divestitures (including those with an investment adviser or broker-dealer component or that require regulatory approvals from the SEC or FINRA), and starting U.S. operations.