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What are the benefits of tokenization in technology and private markets?

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For technology companies and their investors, tokenization modernizes the cap table: private shares, employee equity, and revenue-share instruments issued as programmable securities with built-in transfer rules. The benefit is liquidity for the asset class that locks capital longest — private technology equity — without waiting a decade for an exit.

Structured correctly, tokenized private securities keep every control a company wants — transfer restrictions, ROFRs, qualification checks — while making the secondary transaction a settlement event rather than a legal project. Employee liquidity programs and fund-interest transfers are the near-term beneficiaries.

The firm's practice treats this as capital-markets work, not token work: securities law leads, the instrument follows, and distribution runs through the same investor relationships as any private placement.

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