Crypto businesses registered in international jurisdictions must comply with both data-protection legislation and economic-substance requirements - with
Data Protection & Economic Substance for Crypto Entities covers comparative legal assessment, documentation and coordination across international jurisdictions. It is typically relevant to businesses, investors and families considering a cross-border structure or activity. There is no single offshore regime: legal effects, disclosures, taxation and permissions depend on the selected jurisdiction, relevant residence rules and the facts of each case.
The law and competent-authority requirements of the selected jurisdiction apply, together with rules in relevant tax-residence and operating jurisdictions. Comparison precedes selection and implementation.
Crypto businesses registered in international jurisdictions must comply with both data-protection legislation and economic-substance requirements - with the added complexity that crypto operations involve processing blockchain-address data, transaction histories, and customer-identification information that create specific privacy-law challenges.
We address the unique data-protection issues of crypto entities: lawful basis for processing on-chain data, blockchain analytics and privacy, customer-data retention periods aligned with AML/CTF obligations, and cross-border data transfers to exchanges and service providers.
On the substance side, we design operational arrangements that demonstrate genuine decision-making, adequate staffing, and sufficient expenditure in the jurisdiction of registration.