Claire Cummings

Claire is a leading solicitor specialising in crypto law and the current and evolving regulation. Claire has built Cummings Pepperdine into a unique offering for alternative investment managers and positioned the firm at the forefront of the crypto and blockchain revolution. 

Claire’s work includes advising on FCA, AIFMD, MiFID II and EMIR issues, advising on cryptocurrencies, token issues/ICOs, setting up funds and drafting fund documentation, acting for brokers, negotiating derivative documentation, setting up fund managers and drafting shareholder and limited liability partnership agreements. 

She sits on the advisory board of a crypto exchange and the main board of an NFT firm.  She is also the legal practitioner on the Forum for Digital Currencies and the founder of The Centre for Digital Assets and Democracy.  She has also been part of the Global Digital Finance working group on stablecoins.  Claire has also acted as compliance officer, MLRO and director of an FCA regulated fund manager and qualified under SIB to trade derivatives. 

Claire has also been shortlisted for the CityWealth Woman of the Year 2023 and the Cummings Pepperdine Crypto Questions Podcast has been shortlisted for the CityWealth Podcast of the Year 2023".