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Welcome to Addleshaw Goddard (AG). We are a London headquartered, international, full-service law firm that consistently delivers high-quality outcomes for our clients globally.

We have been advising clients for 250 years, and today we support over 5000 of the world's most respected organisations. We help them in over 50 areas of business law, across more than 100 countries. And while the opportunities and challenges they bring us vary, we solve each in a uniquely AG way.

Our clients enjoy working with us, we deliver a high-quality experience across everything we do, and we are known for award-winning innovation - all of which we harness to bring impact to clients.

Euroclear is the financial industry’s trusted provider of post-trade services. Guided by its purpose, Euroclear innovates to bring safety, efficiency and connections to financial markets for sustainable economic growth.

Euroclear provides domestic and cross-border settlement and related services for bonds, equities, derivatives and funds. As a proven, resilient capital market infrastructure, Euroclear is committed to delivering risk-mitigation, automation and efficiency at scale for its global client franchise.

The Euroclear group includes Euroclear Bank – which is rated AA by Fitch Ratings and Standard & Poor’s – as well as Euroclear Belgium, Euroclear Finland, Euroclear France, Euroclear Nederland, Euroclear Sweden, Euroclear UK & International.

The Euroclear group settled the equivalent of EUR 1,162 trillion in securities transactions in 2024, representing 331 million domestic and cross-border transactions, and held EUR 40.7 trillion in assets for clients by end of 2024.

Established in 2007, FinanceMalta is a non-profit public-private initiative dedicated to promoting Malta as an international financial and business hub, both locally and globally.

By uniting industry and government resources, FinanceMalta ensures that Malta maintains a robust legal, regulatory, and fiscal framework that supports the continued growth of the financial services and fintech sectors.

FinanceMalta emerged at a pivotal moment—just as Malta joined the Eurozone. Today, financial services play a crucial role in the country’s economy. Malta offers several key advantages, including a highly skilled workforce, a cost-effective business environment, and an attractive tax system supported by over 70 double taxation agreements. These benefits are complemented by a world-class ICT infrastructure, English as an official language, a favorable climate, and a strategic Mediterranean location.

Taxbit is the premier tax and accounting compliance platform designed by CPAs and tax attorneys to simplify compliance and reporting for digital assets. Enterprises, financial institutions, and government agencies trust our comprehensive, end-to-end solution to compliance and ensure accuracy. Taxbit is certified with SOC 1 Type 1, SOC 2 Type 2 attestation, and ISO 27001 standards. With over $235 million in funding from top global investors like Ribbit, IVP, Paradigm, Haun Ventures, and PayPal Ventures, Taxbit is headquartered in Draper, Utah, and has offices in Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Seattle, New York, and Washington, D.C. Discover more at www.taxbit.com.

Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Through Agentforce, the digital labor platform, Salesforce brings autonomous agents, unified data from any source, accessible analytics, and best-in-class Customer 360 apps together on one deeply unified platform to help companies connect with customers in a whole new way.

Salesforce is democratizing AI agents for businesses of every size and industry so every company can embrace a workforce without limits. Our low code, open, and secure platform helps companies build and customize Salesforce fast so they can safely scale AI-powered work to every customer and employee experience and transform their business.

Salesforce is proud to be the market leader, but we’re even more proud to lead in philanthropy, innovation and culture. Guided by core values of trust, customer success, innovation, equality, and sustainability, Salesforce is more than a business — we’re a platform for change.

Quantexa is a global AI, data and analytics software company pioneering Decision Intelligence to empower organizations to make trusted operational decisions with data in context. Using the latest advancements in AI, Quantexa’s Decision Intelligence platform helps organizations uncover hidden risk and new opportunities by unifying siloed data and turning it into the most trusted, reusable resource. It solves major challenges across data management, customer intelligence, KYC, financial crime, risk, fraud, and security, throughout the customer lifecycle.

The Quantexa Decision Intelligence Platform enhances operational performance with over 90% more accuracy and 60 times faster analytical model resolution than traditional approaches. An independently commissioned Forrester TEI study on Quantexa's Decision Intelligence Platform found that customers saw a three-year 228% ROI. Founded in 2016, Quantexa now has over 800 employees and thousands of platform users working with billions of transactions and data points across the world.

The Digital Token Identifier (DTI) Foundation is a non-profit division of Etrading Software (ETS), a global regulatory data provider with a focus on solving market-wide problems by building market infrastructures for the new digital economy. DTI Foundation’s mission is to provide the golden source reference data for the unique identification of digital tokens based on ISO’s new standard for digital assets, ISO 24165. The DTI Foundation has already issued ISO identification codes for over two thousand of the most commonly traded digital assets, with more codes being added each day. All commonly traded digital assets can be assigned ISO-standard DTI codes.

Clifford Chance is one of the world's largest law firms, with significant depth and range of resources across five continents.

As a single, fully integrated, global partnership, we pride ourselves on our approachable, collegial and team-based way of working.

We always strive to exceed the expectations of our clients, which include corporates from all the commercial and industrial sectors, the financial investor community, governments, regulators, trade bodies and not-for-profit organisations. We provide them with the highest-quality advice and legal insight, which combines the Firm's global standards with in-depth local expertise.

DLA Piper brings the world closer for its clients. The full-service global law firm is tenacious in helping them seize opportunities, driven in helping them reduce risk, and invested in helping them succeed. This means giving clients the right minds at the right time, translating legal complexities into commercial clarity.

The firm overlays global practice groups with sector teams to mirror clients’ sectors and industries. DLA Piper measures success one relationship at a time, regardless of whether it’s helping clients locally or across borders.

DLA Piper’s management style and culture encourage fresh thinking. The firm continuously invests in new legal and business tech to help its clients understand, decide and act.

Through Law&, DLA Piper provides innovative solutions for its clients. From consultancy to cutting-edge AI, Law& integrates technology and first-class commercial and legal knowhow to deliver solutions beyond traditional legal services. The firm also weaves sustainability into everything it does, helping clients transition to, and thrive in, a more sustainable future.

At DLA Piper everyone is valued for who they are, and the firm is taking meaningful action to make measurable progress on diversity, equity and inclusion. The firm designs its policies and processes to be inclusive in how it recruits, develops and retains talent.

DLA Piper is one of the largest providers of pro bono services in the world. Through this work, it protects the rights of vulnerable people, supports climate, environment and diversity, and promotes equality and good governance.

The FSDC was established in 2013 by the Government of the HKSAR as a high-level advisory body to engage the industry in formulating proposals to promote the further development of the financial services industry of Hong Kong and to map out the strategic direction for the development.

In September 2018, the FSDC was incorporated as a company limited by guarantee. This change allows it to better discharge its functions through research, market promotion, and human capital development with greater flexibility.

Keep up with the latest FSDC news by following our LinkedIn, Twitter & YouTube.

Invest Hong Kong (InvestHK) is the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Government Department responsible for Foreign Direct Investment. InvestHK’s vision is to strengthen Hong Kong’s status as the leading international business location in Asia. Our mission is to attract and retain foreign direct investment which is of strategic importance to the economic development of Hong Kong. In all our services, we apply the following core values: passion, integrity, professionalism, customer service, business friendliness, responsiveness, collaboration and innovation.

We work with overseas and Mainland entrepreneurs, SMEs and multinationals that wish to set up an office – or expand their existing business – in Hong Kong.

We offer free advice and services to support companies from the planning stage right through to the launch and expansion of their business.

Kraken is a technology platform built on crypto that unlocks access and reduces inefficiencies to drive financial freedom — for the crypto economy and beyond.

Millions of individuals, professional traders, and institutions around the world use Kraken to trade digital and traditional assets, including cryptocurrencies, national currencies, U.S. futures, and U.S.-listed stocks and ETFs.

Kraken markets can be monitored and traded via the web or through the Kraken and Kraken Pro iOS and Android apps. Futures platforms by NinjaTrader, a Kraken company, are available on desktop, web, and mobile via www.ninjatrader.com.

For more information about Kraken, please visit www.kraken.com.

NEOM is an accelerator of human progress and a vision of what a New Future might look like. It is a region in northwest Saudi Arabia on the Red Sea being built from the ground up as a living laboratory – a place where entrepreneurship will chart the course for this New Future. It will be a destination and a home for people who dream big and want to be part of building a new model for exceptional livability, creating thriving businesses and reinventing environmental conservation. NEOM will include hyperconnected, cognitive cities, ports and enterprise zones, research centers, sports and entertainment venues and tourist destinations. As a hub for innovation, entrepreneurs, business leaders and companies will come to research, incubate and commercialize new technologies and enterprises in groundbreaking ways. Residents of NEOM will embody an international ethos and embrace a culture of exploration, risk-taking and diversity.

Norton Rose Fulbright is a global law firm. We provide the world’s preeminent corporations and financial institutions with a full business law service. We have more than 3,700 lawyers and other legal staff based in Europe, the United States, Canada, Latin America, Asia, Australia, the Middle East and Africa. Our global financial services and regulation practice helps our clients navigate the evolving and increasingly complex regulatory environment, working seamlessly across major business and financial hubs. With a multidisciplinary team of lawyers, risk and compliance professionals and government relations and public policy strategists, we provide clients with an “end-to-end” service, combining deep legal and regulatory knowledge with practical industry experience to deliver practical and commercial solutions.

Slaughter and May is a leading international law firm with a diverse and extensive practice comprising the full range of commercial, financing, regulatory, and other areas. It is recognised throughout the business community for its innovation, expertise and commitment to its clients – helping them achieve their commercial objectives and deal with the most business-critical and challenging situations, however complex or new those challenges may be. Our Financial Institutions Group supports UK, EU and global financial institutions from across the full spectrum of the financial services sector on a wide range of corporate, financing and regulatory matters. We are well-known for supporting clients on some of the most complex, ground-breaking, and innovative matters, which provide the practice with real insight into the different objectives and challenges facing UK, EU and global financial services businesses, as well as a broad perspective across global financial services markets as a whole. This knowledge is fed back into all the work it does. Further information about Slaughter and May is available at https://www.slaughterandmay.com

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