Blake O'Donnell
Blake O'Donnell is the founder and principal of Solvere Solicitors. He is a dual-qualified solicitor (England & Wales and Ireland, both 2010) specialising in the regulation of digital assets, payments and banking.
He is the author of Legal Aspects of Cryptocurrency in the UK (1st ed, Bloomsbury Professional, 2024) — a leading practitioner text on the subject — currently held in the law libraries of the University of Oxford, Harvard, Yale and Berkeley. He is writing a second book on the law of digital payments.
He has lectured on cryptoasset regulation at University College Cork (2025) and spoken on the future of money — including payment stablecoins, real-world-asset tokenisation and CBDCs — at the London Blockchain Conference (2024).
Over fifteen years, Blake has practised across leading firms and served as general counsel to a substantial international investment group, advising on finance, regulation, corporate governance and cross-border structuring. He holds a First Class BCL (International) from University College Dublin, an LLM from the University of Minnesota, and an MPhil in Real Estate Finance from the University of Cambridge.
Dual-qualified
Solicitor of England & Wales and of Ireland (both 2010).
Bloomsbury text
Legal Aspects of Cryptocurrency in the UK (2024). A second book on digital payments is in progress.
Guest lecturer
Cryptoasset regulation, University College Cork (2025).
Conference panellist
The future of money — stablecoins, tokenisation and CBDCs — London Blockchain Conference (2024).
UCD · Minnesota · Cambridge
First Class BCL (UCD), LLM (Minnesota), MPhil in Real Estate Finance (Cambridge).
15+ years
Leading firms and a general counsel role at a substantial international investment group.
Solvere Solicitors is authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA no. 629631).
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