Blake O'Donnell

Blake O'Donnell is a dual-qualified solicitor practising in financial services regulation, with a focus on digital assets, payments and banking. He is the founder and principal of Solvere Solicitors, a London practice advising cryptoasset firms, payment institutions and e-money institutions on authorisation, safeguarding and the regulatory perimeter.

He is the author of Legal Aspects of Cryptocurrency in the UK (Bloomsbury Professional, 2024), a practitioner text held in the law libraries of Oxford, Harvard, Yale and Berkeley, and of The Law of Digital Payments (Bloomsbury Professional, 2027), which examines how English law is adapting to digital wallets, open banking, smart contracts, tokenised assets and decentralised finance.

Admitted in England and Wales and in Ireland in 2010, he has practised across leading firms and served as general counsel to an international investment group. He has lectured on cryptoasset regulation at University College Cork and spoken on the future of money - stablecoins, tokenisation and central bank digital currencies - at the London Blockchain Conference.

He holds a First Class BCL from University College Dublin, an LLM from the University of Minnesota and an MPhil from the University of Cambridge.