Crypto Exchange Licensing in Georgia
Client
Crypto exchange and payment company
Challenge
A crypto exchange and payment company was preparing to launch a regulated platform in Georgia. The country's framework for virtual asset service providers requires registration with the national regulator and alignment with international AML and KYC standards — a moving target for operators entering the market. The client needed end-to-end legal support: a clear read on local licensing rules, a mapping of those rules onto cross-border compliance expectations, and a documentation set ready for filing. All of this had to be in place before the platform could onboard users or process payments at scale.
Solution
We provided end-to-end legal support for the registration and licensing of the crypto exchange and payment platform.
- Regulatory analysis — mapped Georgia's licensing requirements for crypto and payment activity against the client's intended product scope.
- International alignment — benchmarked the setup against international AML, KYC and consumer-protection standards to keep cross-border operations defensible.
- Documentation package — drafted the full set of corporate, compliance and licensing documents required for registration with the relevant authorities.
- Filing and follow-through — handled submissions, regulator queries and structural adjustments through to issuance of all required licenses.
Result
The client completed registration in Georgia and received all licenses required to run crypto exchange and payment operations.
The licensed setup gave the platform a defensible base in a regulated jurisdiction — with a documented compliance perimeter that supports onboarding, payments and future cross-border expansion.
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