Blake O’Donnell, solicitor of England & Wales and of Ireland

Blake O’Donnell

Solicitor of England & Wales and of Ireland, admitted 2010. I write and lecture on the regulation of cryptoassets and on the law of digital payments. I practise in London as principal of Solvere Solicitors.

blake.odonnell@solveresolicitors.com
London

Books

  1. Cover of The Law of Digital Payments by Blake O’Donnell, Bloomsbury Professional
    O’Donnell, B. The Law of Digital Payments. Bloomsbury Professional, forthcoming 18 March 2027. 304 pp · ISBN 978-1-5265-3570-2 · Publisher Bank and funds transfers, card payments, tokenised payment, open banking, mobile payments, stablecoins, central bank digital currencies, smart contracts and the recovery of mistaken payments, treated as a single body of English law.
  2. Cover of Legal Aspects of Cryptocurrency in the UK by Blake O’Donnell, Bloomsbury Professional
    O’Donnell, B. Legal Aspects of Cryptocurrency in the UK. 1st edn. Bloomsbury Professional, 2024. ISBN 978-1-5265-2890-2 · Publisher Held in the law libraries of the University of Oxford, Harvard, Yale and Berkeley.

Lectures and panels

  1. Cryptoasset regulation. Guest lecture, University College Cork, 2025.
  2. ‘Currency of Tomorrow: Navigating the Future of Money’. Panel, London Blockchain Conference, 2024. Payment stablecoins, real-world-asset tokenisation and central bank digital currencies.

Recordings: youtube.com/@blakeodonnell3899

Press

  1. ‘Q&A with Blake O’Donnell’, Bloomsbury Professional, 20 March 2024. On Legal Aspects of Cryptocurrency in the UK and the state of UK cryptoasset regulation. bloomsburyprofessional.com
  2. ‘The Blockchain Bulletin: A London Blockchain Conference Special’, Payment Expert, 24 May 2024. paymentexpert.com
  3. ‘Currency of Tomorrow: Navigating the Future of Money’, CoinGeek, 28 May 2024. Coverage of the London Blockchain Conference panel on CBDCs, stablecoins and tokenisation. coingeek.com

Education