Top 50 Crypto Professionals 2025
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Blockchain interoperability and mergers & acquisitions are rapidly recasting the architecture of digital finance. As cross-chain bridges, messaging protocols and layer-2 aggregators mature, legal and compliance teams face thorny questions about liability, jurisdiction and regulatory alignment. At the same time, the wave of consolidations among crypto infrastructure firms, advisory practices and fintech players signals an industry maturing toward scale, integration and full-stack capability.
Meanwhile, macro dynamics are intensifying the stakes. Bitcoin’s renewed rally has drawn institutional capital and sharpened calls for legal certainty around digital assets. In the UK, regulators are moving toward regulating cryptoasset activity and stablecoin issuance, and proposals have floated caps on individual stablecoin holdings to guard against systemic risk. On the Channel Islands front, Lee Birkett’s Moneybrain has introduced GBPB, its pegged stablecoin dubbed the “Digital Pound,” backed 1:1 in sterling reserves. GBPB is intended for everyday payments and designed to operate within Jersey’s Virtual Asset framework, providing a live test case of how stablecoin regulation, infrastructure and usage may converge. See a recent article discussing digital trends.
Andrea Pantaleo
Head of Crypto Web3 & Fintech Sector
DLA Piper Italy
Andrew Schofield
Partner, Head of Asset Management
KPMG
Private: Charles Kerrigan
Partner
CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang
Charlotte Hill
Partner
Penningtons Manches Cooper
Charlotte Hill
Partner, Financial Services Regulation and FinTech
Charles Russell Speechlys
Private: Christopher Griffin
Claire Cummings
Managing Partner
Cummings Pepperdine
Dan Wyatt
Partner
Reynolds Porter Chamberlain (RPC)
Daniel Botha
Blockchain Technical Lead
RSM
Daniel Davis
Partner and Co-Chair Financial Markets and Regulation practice
Katten
Dion Seymour
Crypto and Digital Assets Technical Director (ex-HMRC), Web3 & Disruptive Tech
Andersen
Gautam Ganeshan
Partner, Asset Management Group
KPMG
Gordon Ritchie
Managing Associate
Simmons & Simmons
Hafeez Azeez
Client Director
Baker Tilly
Helen O’Sullivan
AML Manager
Harneys Fiduciary
Private: James Brockhurst
Private: James Ramsden KC
King’s Counsel & Senior Partner
Astraea Group
Jamie Nuttall
Director/Shareholder
Myna Accountants
Jamison Sites
Principal FinTech, Digital Assets
KPMG
Jay Schulman
National Leader, Blockchain and Digital AssetsA FinTech, Digital Assets
RSM US
Private: Joanna Bailey
Partner
Giambrone & Partners
Jonas Gantenbein
Head of Digital Assets
Bank Frick & Co. AG
Joshua Ashley Klayman
U.S. Head of Fintech and Head of Blockchain and Digital Assets, New York
Linklaters
Kyle Brits
Founding Partner
Kybri Consulting Limited
Lance A. Zinman
Partner and Global Chair, Financial Markets and Funds
Katten
Laura Knight
International and Crypto Tax Director
Knightbridge Tax
Louise Abbott
Partner, Disputes
Keystone Law
Louise Lane
Tax Director & Head of Crypto
Wright Vigar
Matthew Kluchenek
Partner in the Financial Markets Litigation and Enforcement practice
Katten
Private: Dr Niklas Schmidt
Oliver Widmer
Partner
Pestalozzi Attorneys at Law
Richard Marshall
Legal Director
Hill Dickinson
Sam Roberts
Partner
Cooke, Young & Keidan
Sean Kiernan
Founder, CEO
Greengage & Co. Limited
Stuart Pinnington
Global Head of Asset Owners
IQ-EQ
Tara Frater
Principal and Head of Practice
FT Legal
Thomas Campione
Director | DLT & Digital Assets driver
Deloitte
Private: Zoe Wyatt
Partner, International & Crypto Tax
Andersen
