About Oliver Völkel

Oliver Völkel LLM is a partner at CERHA HEMPEL. His specialist areas include banking and capital markets law as well as crypto-asset regulation. He is considered a pioneer in this area of law. He is the editor of several relevant specialist works (Blockchain rules (MANZ), Crypto-Assets (BECK)) and publishes regularly. He is also a lecturer at Austrian universities. His clients include well-known layer-1 protocols, DeFi applications as well as operators of mining and validator pools. In addition, he advises international companies in the crypto industry as well as financial service providers in the securities sector and banks.