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João G. Gil Figueira Figueira (Partner) and Catarina Andrade Miranda (Associate) co-signed the 2023/2024 Mondaq Comparative Guide of Virtual Currencies – Portugal, published by Mondaq. The guide [...]

The new EU Regulation 2022/858 of the European Parliament and the Council on a pilot regime for market infrastructures based on distributed ledger technology (DLT) entered into force on March [...]

On July 31, 2023, the National Institute of Industrial Property of Portugal (INPI) joined the IP Registers in Blockchain. By joining the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and [...]

João G. Gil Figueira, Partner at GFDL, will take part in the 2nd edition of Porto Business School’s Web3 and Blockchain for Executives programme, lecturing the “Regulation & Compliance” [...]

After several years of intense debate, the European Council finally approved the Regulation on Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) during its May 16th, 2023 session. The proposal underwent numerous [...]

The European Parliament finally published the new Markets in Crypto Assets regulation (MiCA) on March 20th 2023. The new framework is the most significant step so far towards a harmonized and [...]

Rodrigue Devillet Lima, Partner at GFDL Advogados, participated last week in a panel discussion at Poolside regarding the Portuguese Web3 environment and its regulatory framework.

What is MiCA about? The final version of the MiCA (Markets in Crypto-assets) Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council, amending Directive (EU) 2019/1937, was published on October [...]

The Portuguese Government’s 2023 Budget Proposal finally provides a clear taxation framework for cryptoassets/cryptocurrencies. The proposal has yet to be approved in the Parliament. The lack of [...]

On October 25th, 2022, João Gil Figueira, Partner at GFDL, delivered a lecture on “Regulation & Compliance”. This lecture is part of a series of lectures of the Blockchain Executive Course by [...]