Bryony is the secretariat of the GDF Advisory Council. She is also Partner at international law firm DLA Piper, has 15 years’ experience in the financial markets sector and has spent time working in-house at a major European bank as well as in private practice. Bryony has lived and worked in London and the Cayman Islands.

She has been working with clients in the Fintech space with increasing concentration since 2016 and has a breadth of experience, including advising on electronic and DLT based trading and lending platforms, crowdfunding structures and token based fundraising activities. She has particular expertise with financing aspects of offshore fund and issuer structures. In addition, Bryony is advising a number of businesses, including blockchain technology companies, sponsors, issuers, exchanges and other corporate clients in relation to crypto asset issuance, ownership and trading, digital assets, e-money and digital payments, stablecoin products, security tokens, tokenised securities and derivatives and associated finance and regulatory matters.