Dr. Thomas Feldkircher
Blockchain Counsel | Liechtenstein, Nägele Rechtsanwälte GmbH
Profile
Dr. Thomas Feldkircher has been working for Nägele Rechtsanwälte GmbH in Vaduz | Liechtenstein since 2018, which has been a cooperation partner of MME in the field of blockchain technology since the end of 2017. MME and Nägele together support DLT projects across borders both in Switzerland and Liechtenstein.
Dr. Thomas Feldkircher serves both national and international technology and industrial companies as well as Internet and blockchain companies. He advises and deals primarily with regulatory and capital market law aspects, litigation in civil, commercial and economic criminal law and also provides related legal advice.
He also specializes in insurance contract law and capital market law. In addition, he is admitted to practice law in the ecclesiastical courts.
Education
- 2017
- Liechtenstein bar examination
- 2014-2015
- Internship at the Higher Regional Court of Innsbruck
- 2005-2014
- Studies of Theology (Magister), Law (Magister) and Canon Law (Doctor)
Languages
- German
- French
- English
Practical Experience
- since 2018
- Counsel at MME in the field of blockchain technology
- since 2018
- Lawyer with NÄGELE Rechtsanwälte GmbH, Vaduz
- 2017-2018
- Attorney with Dr. Hans-Jörg Vogl, Schaanwald
- 2015-2017
- Trainee with Dr. Hans-Jörg Vogl, Feldkirch and Schaanwald
Services
Contact
Secretariat
Ellen Spinnler
Project Manager | Blockchain
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From the magazine
Prospectus for Security Token
On 30 August 2018, the Liechtenstein Financial Market Authority (FMA) approved for the first time a prospectus for an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) or Token Generating Event (TGE) of a "Security Token". According to our information, this is the first officially approved public offer of security tokens in Europe. The successfully completed project is an example of the cooperation between MME and our Blockchain partner firm Nägele Rechtsanwälte, Vaduz. Both companies jointly advise DLT projects in Switzerland and Liechtenstein.
Functional equivalence
Blockchain technology opens up new possibilities to implement established legal institutions such as ownership or legal transactions in a technically functionally equivalent manner. The authors propose to recognize a digital system as functionally equivalent to the existence of a legal institution or to a legally valid transactions which fulfils all substantive and/or formal requirements that Swiss law attaches to it. These requirements are subject to judicial review and can be specified in law. This creates immediate legal certainty and can focus on what is necessary from a regulative perspective.
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