Summary
Ishan Pandey is a regulatory lawyer and co-founder with nine years' experience advising on investment funds, structured products and emerging fintech across UAE, Singapore, Switzerland, the Cayman Islands and other global jurisdictions. He specializes in licensing and compliance for payments, virtual assets, NFTs, security tokens, crowdfunding and tokenization, and has hands-on transaction experience spanning ADGM, DIFC, DMCC and multiple offshore regimes. A co-drafter of the Arab Monetary Fund’s DLT guidance adopted by 22 Arab nations, he brings rare policy-level influence alongside practical counsel for startups and incumbents. Based in Bengaluru, he combines legal rigor with a genuine tech curiosity—earning a Bitcoin & Cryptocurrencies certificate from UC Berkeley and contributing to fintech and blockchain publications. Known for translating complex regulatory frameworks into implementable strategies, he particularly enjoys working on novel business models that sit at the intersection of law, payments and distributed ledger technology.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Certificate , Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies, Certificate , Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies at University of California, Berkeley
Commerce + Legal Studies, Commerce + Legal Studies at Delhi Public School Hyderabad
Podar International school Navi Mumbai
Apeejay Stya Education (Svran Foundation)
B.COM/LL.B, Banking, Corporate, Finance, and Securities Law, B.COM/LL.B, Banking, Corporate, Finance, and Securities Law at Nirma University
Delhi Public School Bhopal
English, Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Spanish