Philip Vasquez

Background

About Philip Vasquez

Philip operates as the Chief Legal Officer and cofounder of the Damex.io group where he oversees the business' various legal and regulatory obligations as well as strategy as the business scales. Philip was the co-founder responsible for the start-up's successful transition as an unregulated and newly incorporated Distributed Ledger Technology firm to one of the world's first regulated DLT & MICA regulated businesses and crypto OTC desks with over $4bn of trade turnover and hundreds of Clients. The team has also seen growth to 65 from 3 in 2017.Prior to Damex Philip practised as a lawyer for 6 years where he advised businesses and individuals building on his experience with regulation, compliance, technology (fintech & DLT), financial services and litigation. He is mostly known for assisting a large number of businesses with licensing, compliance issues (including AML/CFT), securities offerings, regulatory approvals, investments, corporate governance and structuring, international taxation and dispute resolution. Philip is also regularly involved on matters of policy, governance and community being an executive member of Gibraltar's Association for New Technologies, been a director of the Federation of Small Businesses from 2017-2020, a member of the Gibraltar Bar Council (2016-18) and an organiser of Gibraltar's first Startup Community.Prior to living in Gibraltar, Philip assisted the executive team with operations and legal matters at DueDil in London. Here he worked on the Company's terms of use for the software service that has over a million users, raising funding and supporting growth of the team. He also led on negotiating and drafting the company's technical high value data (API) contracts. Philip also spent a summer in a law firm in Kingston, Jamaica prior to working in London.Philip was called to the Bar in England and Wales in 2014 having achieved a 'Very Competent' in his Bar Professional Training Course. He was subsequently called to the Bar of Gibraltar in July 2015. Philip also holds an LLM in Third Party Litigation Funding. He read Law & Sociology at Cardiff University and has also obtained a certificate of competency in Gibraltar Law from the University of Gibraltar.Philip enjoys sports, music and pursuing passion projects. Philip is also an occasional writer having written two books and contributed to various publications.