About Aurum
Aurum is a focused legal consultancy. Our lawyers advise businesses in blockchain, next-generation finance, and technology operating across borders.
Founded in 2011, we work primarily under English law, with EU, US, and offshore capabilities. We advise teams building, financing, launching, scaling, or restructuring products and companies where law, regulation, capital, and technology intersect.
Our work covers legal structuring, regulatory strategy, corporate and investment transactions, commercial frameworks, intellectual property, compliance and reporting, data protection, and cross-border execution.
We are built for clients that need senior legal judgement close to the business: clear options, practical risk calls, and documents that match how the company actually operates.
How We Work
Senior-Led: Partners and senior lawyers stay close to the matter. That means shorter briefings, faster decisions, and legal advice that is grounded in the same context as the people making the call. We are built for matters where judgement matters more than volume.
Sector-Deep: We work in a narrow set of markets: blockchain, next-generation finance, and technology. Clients do not need to explain the basics before the legal work can begin. We read the product, the market, the capital flow, and the regulatory position together.
Practical About Regulation: We do not sell regulatory avoidance. We also do not assume that authorisation is always the right answer. Our role is to determine the path that fits: whether a business should be licensed, can operate outside scope, or needs a different structure entirely. For businesses that need authorisation, we help make the process structured, efficient, and execution-ready. For businesses that do not, we build legal positions and operating models that can be explained, evidenced, and defended.
Cross-Border By Design: Our clients rarely operate in one jurisdiction. We coordinate English-law advice, EU regulatory issues, US touchpoints, and offshore structuring around how the business actually works: where the team sits, where capital moves, where users and investors are located, where regulatory risk arises, and where decisions need to be made.
Close To The Business: We work with founders, boards, executives, investors, operators, and product teams. The work is not only to produce documents. It is to help leadership teams understand risk, choose workable paths, and move forward with control.
Our Philosophy
Legal work should make hard decisions clearer, not more complicated.
In the markets we serve, there is rarely one default answer. A structure may need authorisation, may be able to operate outside scope, or may need to be redesigned. Our job is to identify the path that fits the business, the law, and the commercial reality.
We are practical, but not casual about risk. Good advice should help clients move, while still producing structures that can be explained, evidenced, and defended.
We stay close to the business. Clients should not need to explain the basics, translate their market, or manage layers of legal process before useful work begins.
We are lawyers, but the work often requires more than legal analysis: judgement, commercial context, sector knowledge, and execution discipline.
Our Story
Aurum was founded in 2011 to support companies operating across borders.
Over time, our focus narrowed. We moved deeper into technology, blockchain, finance, Web3, and innovation-driven businesses, and built the firm around the legal work these markets actually require.
That focus shaped the way we work.
We are not a broad-service firm trying to understand new markets from the outside. We work in sectors where legal structure, regulation, capital, technology, and execution are closely connected.
Our clients need advice that understands the product, the commercial model, the regulatory perimeter, and the pressure behind the decision.
In 2020, Aurum moved to a digital-first operating model.
We closed our physical offices and built the firm around remote execution, secure communication, and cross-border availability. The model is deliberate: our clients operate internationally, at speed, and without unnecessary friction. So do we.
Milestones
Explore the journey of excellence and innovation through our key milestones, marking each step of our firm’s remarkable evolution and success:
- 2011: Embarked our journey as “Exlege”, specialising in corporate and commercial law.
- 2014: Recognising the transformative potential of emerging technologies, we began our dedicated focus on technologies and innovations.
- 2016: Diversified our expertise to embrace the emerging Web3 and blockchain domains, positioning ourselves at the forefront of these transformative technologies.
- 2017: With an eye on the future, the firm underwent a significant pivot, rebranding as Aurum.
- 2018: Launched a private investment fund to support innovative tech startups and game-changing blockchain projects.
- 2019: Expanded international presence, including Dubai and London.
- 2020: Transitioned to a digital-first, office-free operating model.
- 2021: Aurum was invited for the first time to act as an independent director on the board of a leading tech company.
- 2022: Launched DAObox, a company specialising in infrastructure solutions tailored for DAOs and Web3 communities, while also co-founding two other Web3 projects.
- 2024: Named by the Financial Times among Europe’s most innovative firms (FT Innovative Lawyers Europe 2024 Awards).
- 2025: Recognised by The Legal 500 for commercial, corporate and M&A practices.
- 2026: Recognised again by The Legal 500. Continuing work across projects spanning more than 30 jurisdictions.
- Still going…
Work With Aurum
If you are building, financing, launching, or restructuring a business in blockchain, next-generation finance, or technology, we can help define the legal path and execute it.
Tell us where you are, what you are building, and what decision needs to be made. We will tell you whether we are the right firm for the matter.
