Angelo Chan is a financial markets expert specializing in both digital assets and traditional financial instruments. Mr. Chan has extensive expertise in matters involving complex financial instruments and financing structures related to disputes, regulatory challenges, fraud investigations, and bankruptcies. He has been retained as an expert witness in litigation and arbitration and has testified on bitcoin trading and lending issues. Mr. Chan is also deeply knowledgeable on tax disputes related to structured finance and dividend arbitrage (such as Cum-Ex/Cum-Cum) transactions.
As a former managing director of the crypto asset lender BlockFi, Mr. Chan structured cryptocurrency-collateralized financing transactions and cryptocurrency-based derivatives, such as over-the-counter (OTC) swaps. He also launched initiatives for crypto-native products related to staking and decentralized finance (DeFi), led debt financings with financial institutions, and helped manage regulatory challenges.
In addition to his cryptocurrency expertise, Mr. Chan has significant traditional finance experience, having built his career initially at both Barclays Capital (now Barclays Investment Bank) and Bank of America Merrill Lynch (now BofA Securities). In those contexts, he structured and executed cross-border financing transactions with complex tax, accounting, and regulatory considerations across a range of underlying assets, including listed equities, sovereign debt, corporate bonds, and asset-backed securities.
Mr. Chan has also worked with bespoke capital instruments, such as preference shares and subordinated debt, and structured OTC derivatives custom-designed to hedge any related currency, interest rate, and other market risks.
Mr. Chan was previously registered with FINRA in the United States (Series 7 and 63) and the (then) FSA in the United Kingdom (CF21 Investment Adviser and CF30 Customer controlled functions).