The Enjin Ecosystem legal team is a finalist for Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) Team of the Year in the Asian Legal Business (ALB) Pan Asian Regulatory Awards 2024, alongside leading Singapore-based platforms Crypto.com, Anchorage Digital, and Coinhako. This is ALB’s first time recognizing compliance teams and follows the team’s earlier recognition in ALB’s mainstream legal awards.

The team is the only blockchain project team to be nominated under the VASP Team of the Year category. This is a substantial recognition of legal capability within the Enjin ecosystem because VASP compliance expertise is typically a focus of centralized platforms.

The team helped navigate complex VASP blockchain issues ranging from the Enjin Coin and Enjin non-fungible token (NFT) migrations when Enjin Blockchain launched, a Japanese game publisher’s launch of NFTs on Enjin Blockchain, and multi-country VASP issues for apps such as Enjin Wallet and the NFT.io marketplace.

Unlike typical VASP compliance teams, the team oversees cross-disciplinary compliance issues on payments and money transmission, securities, tax, AML/KYC/CFT, intellectual property, data privacy, and other regulatory regimes relevant to digital and gaming assets. The team has experience across major jurisdictions including the United States, United Kingdom, European Union, Japan, and Singapore.

The VASP Team of the Year shortlisting follows the team’s prior recognition:

• The team was added to Legal 500 GC Powerlist Southeast Asia, the world’s most prestigious recognition for company internal lawyers, in 2023.

• The team was a finalist for South East Asia In-House Team of the Year and Blockchain In-House Team of the Year in ALB South East Asia Law Awards 2024.

• Chief Legal Officer and Chief Financial Officer Oscar Franklin Tan was a finalist for In-House Lawyer of the Year (Technology) in ALB South East Asia Law Awards 2024. While in private practice, he was previously ranked under Startups & Emerging Companies and Fintech for Singapore by Chambers and Partners, the world’s most prestigious recognition for law firms.

• General Counsel Isabel Guidote-Pangalangan won Fintech Lawyer of the Year and Young Lawyer of the Year (and was a finalist for Lawyer of the Year (In House) and Woman Lawyer of the Year), ALB Philippine Law Awards 2022. She was a finalist for Woman Lawyer of the Year (In-House) in ALB South East Asia Law Awards 2024.

• VP-Finance & Tax, Controller and Associate General Counsel Nadaine Tongco was a finalist for Lawyer of the Year (In House), Young Lawyer of the Year, and Woman Lawyer of the Year in ALB Philippine Law Awards 2023.

The team works under Atlas Development Services, a core contributor to Enjin Blockchain.