Alexandru Stănescu

Alexandru     Stanescu     focuses     on     investments    and commercial, corporate     and dispute   resolution for the   technology. He is a board member of ThinkBLOCKtank (the   European    lawyers    blockchain    association    based    in   Luxembourg), member   of   INATBA and   the Blockchain   Lawyers Group (a closed club of blockchain lawyers from   more than 80 countries).

He was co-founder and CLO at Ginplatform. io – the world’s   first masternode automatic set-up solution for more than 100   blockchains. GINcoin is a layer 1 protocol with more than   3000 nodes and a community of more than 8000 users.

He    regularly advises CEE blockchain start-ups and scale-ups, especially on commercial and strategic matters related to   structuring, issuances and AML/KYC. His clients are crypto   exchanges, payment providers, cryptoasset managers, NFT providers   and   native   token   issuers, tokenization   asset   providers.  He also advises on corporate governance and   privacy for decentralised projects and communities (DAOs   included)

He also provides assistance to companies seeking to establish themselves in the US market, as he is a New York licensed attorney. Alexandru has worked with the   World Bank, covering competition (Competition Council), capital markets (worked with ASF in Romania), Ministry of   Finance and Secretariat General of the Government. He has frequently advised VCs and tech startups on pre-seeed, seed and Series A financing.

Alex holds an LLM from Columbia Law School, a JD and   an LLM from the University of Bucharest and a trilingual   MBA from the University of Deusto in Spain, Audencia School of Management in France and Bradford School of Management in the United Kingdom.