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. His second book, The Law of Digital Payments, publishes with Bloomsbury Professional on 18 March 2027.
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.
Solicitor of England & Wales and of Ireland (both 2010).
Legal Aspects of Cryptocurrency in the UK (2024) and The Law of Digital Payments (March 2027).
Cryptoasset regulation, University College Cork (2025).
The future of money — stablecoins, tokenisation and CBDCs — London Blockchain Conference (2024).
First Class BCL (UCD), LLM (Minnesota), MPhil in Real Estate Finance (Cambridge).
Leading firms and a general counsel role at a substantial international investment group.
Both published by Bloomsbury Professional and included in its Banking and Finance Law online service.
How UK financial law is adapting to digital finance — digital wallets, open banking, smart contracts, decentralised finance and tokenised assets — and how the courts and regulators are treating payment tokens, security tokens, cryptoassets and NFTs. Covers FSMA 2023, the digital pound, and the Payment Services and E-Money Regulations applied to newer business models.
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A leading practitioner text on the legal treatment of cryptoassets in the United Kingdom, held in the law libraries of the University of Oxford, Harvard, Yale and Berkeley.
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