About GVRN
Simple legal work, sold like a product. Complicated legal work, handled by a real person.
GVRN is a legal team for crypto companies. Setting up a company or filing standard paperwork is fixed-price and self-serve. Anything that needs actual judgment, like whether your token counts as a security, gets a named expert and a custom scope.
Who we are
Most legal work is not a judgment call.
It just gets billed like one.
A BVI company with a standard memorandum and articles is a known problem. So is a Cayman foundation, a SAFT against a settled template, a corporate secretary filing. The answer does not change because the client changed. Work like that belongs in a product with a price on it.
Then there is the other kind. Whether your token is a security in the jurisdictions you actually sell into. How a market maker option survives a bad quarter.
What a regulator will make of your treasury in three years. That work is judgment, it is different every time, and it deserves a named expert and a written scope — not a template and not a chatbot.
GVRN is built on that split. Self-serve for the known. Scoped advisory for the rest.
Known work — Products
Incorporation in 9 jurisdictions, corporate secretary, bookkeeping, standard fundraising paper. Configured online, priced up front, reviewed by our team before it files.
Judgment work — Scoped advisory
Token classification, pre-TGE structuring, market maker and exchange negotiation, regulatory strategy. Scoped in writing, flat fee, one named expert who owns the file.
Origins
It started with founders
asking the same question twice.
The team
Our Experts
Meet the Team.
Co-Founder · Poltergeist
CEO
First bought BTC from a Bitcoin ATM in 2014. Crypto-native strategist.
Head of Legal
Leads GVRN’s legal team. 15+ years in corporate law across Singapore, the US and the UK. Unofficial Head of Liquor.
Co-Founder
10+ years in venture building.
Head of Special Projects
Turns wild ideas into working products, taking ventures from zero to MVP, and supplying memes.
CFO
Leads company finance and commercial strategy. Ex-Big Four audit and listed-company treasury operations.
CTO
Onchain-native senior software engineer. Crypto class of 2017.
Ashley
Legal Counsel
All things crypto and commercial, from fundraising and TGE to joint ventures and acquisitions.
Naomi
Legal Counsel
Singapore-qualified lawyer with 7+ years across commercial and corporate matters and litigation.
Kai
Legal Counsel
Crypto attorney with a knack for complex structures and onchain instruments. Can bake you anything, no cap.
Junfeng
Legal Counsel
Onchain sleuth with a corporate and commercial legal background.
Umi
Legal Counsel
Crypto-focused counsel, licensed in California and Washington. Background in corporate and securities law.
Jos
Operations Manager
8+ years in multi-jurisdictional business operations.
Corporate Secretarial & Operations
7+ years in Singapore corporate secretarial services, working directly with clients on their companies’ requirements.
And more legends
The rest of the GVRN team
Field experts, advisors and operators behind every incorporation, raise and token launch.
By the numbers
Our practice, in 3 numbers.
How we operate
Everything is in-house.
That is the whole commitment.
No referral chains, no local agent you have never met filing your documents, no surprise line item from a firm you did not hire.
A named expert owns your file
You know who is doing the work, what they have done before, and how to reach them. On Telegram, not a ticket queue.
The price is fixed before we start
A flat fee against a written scope. We scope first, then price, and the number does not move unless what you asked for does.
Every filing gets human review
Self-serve configures the structure. A member of our team checks it against your actual plans before anything is lodged.
Two ways to start
Pick the one that matches your problem.
Incorporate online
You know the jurisdiction and the shape of the entity. Pick, configure, pay a fixed price. Our team reviews before filing. Typically 5–10 business days.
Speak to an expert
The answer depends on facts only you have. Token launches, fundraising, regulatory reach, restructuring. We scope it in writing, then quote a flat fee.
Our limits
What we will not do.
Knowing where a firm stops is more useful than another list of what it sells. These four are not negotiable, and they cost us work.
We do not bill by the hour
No invoice that grows because a counterparty came back with redlines. If the scope holds, the number holds.
We do not pick a jurisdiction by fashion
Where you incorporate follows what you actually do. If the answer is the boring one, we will tell you the boring one.
We do not let AI sign off on your structure
Tooling speeds up the known work. It does not review it. A named expert does, every time, before anything is filed.
We do not take work we cannot do well
Outside our nine jurisdictions, or outside crypto, we say so and point you elsewhere rather than learning on your file.
Straight answers
Before you get in touch.
The four questions we answer most often, answered once.
What is web3 legal advisory?
It covers the legal questions specific to crypto companies: where the entity sits, what the token is in legal terms, what the token sale says to buyers, which regulators reach the activity, and what exchanges and counterparties need to see in the documents. It uses the same corporate and regulatory law as any other business, applied to products that run on-chain.
Do I need to incorporate before raising?
Usually yes — investors purchase interests in an entity, and that entity has to exist and be able to hold capital. Which structure you pick matters more than how early you pick it.
Which jurisdiction should my company be in?
It depends on what you actually do, not on what is fashionable. Token issuance, DAOs, foundations and treasury each pull in different directions. We map the options against your real plans across nine jurisdictions.
Who actually does the work?
Our own team, in-house, across all nine jurisdictions. You get a named expert on your file and a way to reach them directly. Nothing is referred out to a local agent you have never met.
In their own words.
From mainnet launches to ongoing legal support, hear from the teams building with GVRN.
“GVRN, as a highly attuned Web3 focused team, was pivotal to our journey to mainnet launch. Not only did they swiftly understand our immediate legal needs, GVRN helped us foresee potential roadblocks. I wholeheartedly recommend GVRN to anyone seeking a partner that truly feels like an extension of their own team.”
“GVRN has been our go-to legal partner as we build toward an agentic future, guiding us through the complex legal landscape at the intersection of Web3 and AI with clarity and confidence. Their deep expertise and practical approach make them an invaluable partner for any forward-thinking tech project.”
“GVRN is built for founders by founders who are some of the most in-demand legal and ops minds in the Web3 space. Legal complexities are abstracted away and operational hurdles are solved for in advance, making it the best solution for Web3 founders to manage their project structures and fundraising processes today.”
Get the legal foundation right.
Start your company online, or talk to a named expert about the part that needs judgment.