Token Listing Legal Support for Centralised Exchanges (CEX) and Decentralised Exchanges (DEX)

We help prepare the legal and corporate information requested by centralised exchanges, including company records, ownership details and information about the project team. Support also includes completing listing questionnaires and responding to follow-up questions about the issuer, fundraising history and token distribution.

Your listing application should tell the same story as your whitepaper and project documents. We check token supply, allocations, vesting schedules, treasury holdings and previous token sales for inconsistencies. The review also covers disclosures about token rights, project risks and who controls key protocol functions.

Before you sign, we review the exchange’s proposed terms, including fees where applicable, token commitments, launch conditions and ongoing obligations. Particular attention goes to liability, suspension and delisting rights, helping founders understand what the project must deliver and what happens if the arrangement ends.

Market-making arrangements can involve substantial commitments of tokens and funds. Our contract review covers token loans, control of assets, reporting, fees and termination rights. We help clarify the provider’s responsibilities and how unused tokens or funds must be returned when the engagement ends.

For decentralised exchanges, the legal work focuses on the proposed trading and liquidity arrangements rather than assuming a CEX-style approval process. We review liquidity-provider agreements, control over project-funded liquidity, token restrictions and public disclosures, taking account of the selected protocol and any separate interface requirements.

Our role is to prepare the legal documents and address issues before launch. Listing approval remains with the relevant exchange, and neither approval nor trading liquidity can be guaranteed.

We assess how the token’s rights, use and distribution affect its treatment in your target markets. The review identifies relevant securities and crypto-asset requirements and whether the proposed trading platform can support the token under its permissions. The aim is to establish an appropriate listing route – not assume that every token must fall outside regulation.

Not every listing can be made available to every user. Our review identifies where restrictions may be needed based on local rules, investor eligibility and the exchange’s permitted activities. We help translate these findings into access conditions and controls for the exchange or platform team to implement.

Listing announcements, social media campaigns and influencer promotions need their own legal review. We assess the intended audience, risk warnings and claims about returns, liquidity or regulatory approval. For example, UK cryptoasset promotion rules can apply to overseas businesses marketing to UK consumers.

Founders, employees and market makers need clear rules around confidential listing information and token trading. We help develop procedures for announcements, personal trading and treasury transactions, addressing risks such as insider dealing, artificial trading volume and misleading price signals. The assessment includes applicable market-abuse requirements.

New token features, staking programmes, token migrations or expansion into additional markets may require a fresh legal assessment. We help identify necessary updates to disclosures, exchange notifications and access restrictions, so the project’s compliance arrangements keep pace with how the token is used and traded.