Josef Bergt

Josef Bergt is an expert in the fields of European and Liechtenstein Corporate, Banking and Financial Markets Law and has a comprehensive expertise in connection with the regulatory framework of capital markets, in particular regarding sharing economy business models, or business models related to Distributed Ledger Technology (like Blockchains), including Token Sales and Offerings (ICO/STO). Josef Bergt also has extensive knowledge on the formation, registration and licensing of regulated financial institutions and financial intermediaries with the competent supervisory authorities and regulatory bodies as well as on the counseling of start-ups and on corporate transactions like mergers and acquisitions or financing rounds. In addition, he has experience in both litigation in civil and commercial law and regulatory proceedings. He also has in-depth knowledge of data protection and IP-law.

With regards to academia Josef Bergt wrote his doctoral thesis dealing with Liechtenstein corporate law at the Private University of the Principality of Liechtenstein (UFL). Furthermore, Josef Bergt graduated from the LLM programmes for Corporate, Foundation and Trust Law as well as for Banking and Finance at the University of Liechtenstein. Since 2020 he also publishes the Codices of Liechtenstein Law series. His 2020 2nd edition work “Tokens as dematerialized securities” & “Token Offerings and Decentralized Trading Venues” is a reference work on Liechtenstein securities law, which is also relevant for European and German legal acts and also covers modern developments regarding dematerialized securities and Security Tokens and is also available in several other languages. On November 1, 2020, Josef Bergt was recognized by Forbes with the prestigious Forbes 30 Under 30 award for his versatile and innovative scholarly as well as entrepreneurial approach.

Josef Bergt was part of the team providing policy recommendations for an EU Token Regulation Paper through thinkBLOCKtank asbl and in that regard also participated in the public consultation for an EU framework for markets in crypto-assets (MiCA).

In addition to his scientific authoring activities, Josef Bergt is also active as a speaker and lecturer at international events and at universities, where he provides insights into financial market regulations in connection with new technological and legal developments.