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UCLA Presentation “Blockchain Innovation In Private Investment Funds”

May 18, 2017May 18, 2017

‪Presenting at UCLA @LMI_UCLALaw @UCLA on #Blockchain #innovation for #Hedgefunds #privateequity #VentureCapital #startups #disrupting #compliance. Startups (including Melonport, Numerai, LendingRobot, Varga Fund, among many others) that optimize their internal operations, compliance, and investment strategies with blockchain technology are able to overcome barriers to entry, diseconomies of scale, and can lower their fees and market themselves […]

Blockchain Technology for Horizontal Agriculture Innovation

May 17, 2017May 17, 2017

Delighted to participate in the first Davos on the Delta Conference organized by ISelect Fund’s Carter Williams. Fantastic event in Memphis TN – the Silicone Valley for #Agriculture #Entrepreneurship #Innovation. All leading player in the agriculture business and leading AG startups in various financing stages are present and it is extremely energizing to talk about […]

‪Teaching “#coding for #Lawyers” @TilburgU

May 3, 2017May 3, 2017

‪Teaching “#coding for #Lawyers” @TilburgU -: how? Answer: #blockchain #ethereum #smartcontracts #DAO #EVM #solidity Here is the solidity basic code and background slides: https://wulfkaal.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/lecture-2-smart-contracts-and-solidity-basics1.pdf Thank you Erik P.M. Vermeulen for supporting and leading innovation in Law!!!

Teaching “#coding for #Lawyers” @TilburgU

May 1, 2017

Teaching “#coding for #Lawyers” @TilburgU -: today’s Session Why Coding for Lawyers? Answer: #disruptive #innovation #ai #ml #bigdata #blockchain and: https://lnkd.in/eVjGmvZ  Here are the slides for today’s session: https://lnkd.in/e5d7cq7  Many thanks to @erikpmvermeulen and Ingrid van Eeghem – we missed you in class but students were fantastic with wonderful discussion / questions and deep insights […]

Private Fund Fee Structure and Blockchain Applications

April 27, 2017April 27, 2017

(Forthcoming: Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy – UCLA School of Law) Fully Cited Version: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2959730 The traditional 2/20 fee structure of private investment funds has come increasingly under pressure in the last ten years. Several market factors help explain the pressure on the fee structure of the private investment fund industry. Private fund […]

Dynamic Regulation Via Contingent Capital

April 24, 2017

Dynamic Regulation Via Contingent Capital Review of Banking and Financial Law, Vol. 36, 2017 16 Pages Posted: Wulf A. Kaal University of St. Thomas, Minnesota – School of Law Date Written: April 24, 2017 Abstract Contingent capital securities are a largely overlooked dynamic regulatory mechanism. This essay evaluates the use of contingent capital securities in […]

Legal Education in the Blockchain Revolution

March 22, 2017March 25, 2017

Mark Fenwick*, Wulf A. Kaal* & Erik P.M. Vermeulen** Abstract The legal profession is one of the most disrupted sectors of the consulting industry today. The rise of Legal Tech, artificial intelligence, big data, machine learning, and, most importantly, blockchain technology is changing the practice of law. The sharing economy and platform companies challenge many […]

Blockchain Innovation for Private Investment Funds

March 8, 2017

Forthcoming– Cayman Financial Review (April 2017) Blockchain technology offers unprecedented innovation opportunities for the private investment fund industry. Several private investment funds have spearheaded the implementation of blockchain technology and smart contracting in their business model. While some funds simply focus on trading bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to avoid market fluctuations, others invest in and/or […]

Dynamic Regulation Via Investment Data as a Remedy for Law’s Diminishing Capacity to React to Innovation

September 19, 2016

First published at: https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/business-law-blog/blog/2016/09/dynamic-regulation-investment-data-remedy-law’s-diminishing-capacity Key words: Disruptive Innovation, Venture Capital, Venture Investments, Dynamic Regulation, Feedback Effects, Optimized Information for Regulation, Anticipatory Regulation, Big Data In a series of recent papers – ‘Dynamic Regulation for Innovation’, ‘Regulation Tomorrow: What Happens When Technology Is Faster Than the Law?’, and ‘How to Regulate Disruptive Innovation – From Facts to […]

Empirical Evidence on proposed Investment Advisers Modernization Act

September 10, 2016September 10, 2016

The NYT today summarized the political background on the proposed Investment Advisers Modernization Act here: My Colleague, Jennifer Taub (Vermont) testified in the House Subcommittee on Financial Services in this context and was kind enough to cite some of my work: Investment Advisers Modernization Act of 2016 Here the two perhaps most relevant empirical findings on […]