The Age of Digital Securities: Introduction and the Developments

Pavel Izmaylov

Director – Head of Capital Markets, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Cyprus, Malta (AGS+)

Pavel Izmaylov leads TMF’s capital markets practice in AGS+ region and has responsibility for the strategic development of TMF’s capability in the capital markets sector. Pavel also focuses on enhancing and expanding TMF’s current relationships with key Swiss and international clients within the Traditional and Alternative Investment asset classes. Pavel is responsible for structuring investments for TMF’s clients, including senior secured, second lien, mezzanine and subordinated debt facilities and private equity transactions in support of refinancing, growth, acquisition, and special situations across a broad range of industries

Dr. des. Stephan Meyer, LL.M.

Legal Associate | Attorney-at-Law, Notary Public @ MME

Stephan is an attorney-at-law and notary public with MME’s DLT team. He advises FinTech clients and specializes in the legal and regulatory implementation of blockchain-projects. After multiple positions with an insurance company he has been a member of an interdisciplinary Swiss National Science Foundation research project on the regulation of virtual currencies at ZHAW School of Management and Law. In addition, he wrote a PhD dissertation on rights relating to blockchain-based crypto tokens at University of Zurich (summa cum laude, Issekutz-Prize 2020). Currently, Stephan is also co-founder as well as CPO & Chief Legal Engineer with FQX AG in Zurich and London. In addition, he is lecturer leading the Master’s module “Blockchain & Smart Contracts” at University of Lucerne, research fellow at UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies and lecturing on DLT & LegalTech at ZHAW School of Engineering as well as HWZ.

Darius Liu

Group Chief Strategy Officer at ADDX

Darius has over 15 years of experience in conceptualising, building and scaling enterprises across the public and private sectors. As Co-Founder & Group Chief Strategy Officer of ADDX, Darius is responsible for identifying, conceptualising and building new business lines to scale the ADDX business. Darius was formerly the Chief Operations Officer of ADDX, where he built out all operational aspects of the ADDX platform (including business operations, regulatory, legal, risk and compliance issues), and achieved the first ever regulatory license approvals from MAS to conduct issuance, custody and trading of digitised securities on a single, integrated platform. Prior to ADDX, Darius served in the Economics & Investment Strategy department of GIC, overseeing capital allocation decisions across multiple asset classes in the GIC Portfolio. Darius also served tours in the Singapore Government's Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Defence.