Articles by
Padraig Walsh
Padraig Walsh is a Partner at Tanner De Witt and focuses on venture capital and related corporate work. He advises businesses on licensing, regulatory and compliance issues, and have advised on a number of innovative, complex fintech projects, particularly those using blockchain technology.
October 2019
Security Token Offerings — The What and the Why, Vol. 3: How are Security Tokens Created as a Matter of Law?
If I buy a token in an asset-based security token offering, will I own a piece of the property? Am I tokenizing the asset? No. Let’s take real estate as an example. Tokenising the underlying real estate would require tokenization of the Land Registry. This is not what happens. You will most likely own an […]
September 2019
Security Token Offerings — The What and the Why, Vol. 2: Tokenizing Real Estate
Why would tokenization of real estate be attractive? Fractional ownership will allow part of an asset to be made available by tokenization. This provides the asset owner with different choices on how to approach the market. For instance, an anchor investor could hold a 40% interest, 30% could be released to other key investors, and […]
May 2019
Security Token Offerings: The What and the Why, Vol. 1
This is the first part of an insight series by Tanner De Witt partner, Pádraig Walsh, in which he gives his legal perspective on security token offerings. In this article, he starts from the basics, and asks and answers what are security token offerings and why we should care. What is a token? A token […]