Adella Toulon-Foerster

Adella Toulon-Foerster LL.B (Hons), LL.M

Special Legal Advisor – Digital Assets, Financial Innovation & Asset Protection

Of Counsel

Professional Profile

Adella Toulon-Foerster serves as Special Legal Advisor to the firm, where she provides strategic advisory services on digital assets, financial innovation, asset protection, regulatory frameworks, cross-border structures, and emerging AI technologies.

Ms. Toulon-Foerster holds law degrees from the Nottingham Law School in the United Kingdom and the George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C. In 2013, she authored one of the earliest legal academic works examining Bitcoin and its interaction with modern legal systems, contributing to the genesis of the discourse surrounding digital assets and their legal posture.

Ms. Toulon-Foerster previously led the Virtual Asset and Digital Asset practices at Cogent Law Group and Oster & McBride in Washington DC, where she served as Partner, assisting clients operating at the intersection of financial technology, regulation, and innovation.

Her career spans more than two decades across cryptocurrency, financial systems, compliance, regulatory strategy, investigations, and technology-driven ventures. She assists start ups, international enterprises, financial institutions, regulatory authorities, and industry stakeholders on matters involving digital assets, policy development, risk management, governance structures, and innovation frameworks.

Ms. Toulon-Foerster has contributed to a broad range of digital asset initiatives, including compliance architecture, cross-border transactions, virtual asset regulatory models, and asset protection strategies intended to support long-term preservation, succession planning, and international structuring objectives.

Her work reflects a longstanding commitment to financial inclusion, technological advancement, and developing practical frameworks capable of balancing innovation with responsible oversight.

Outside her professional activities, Ms. Toulon-Foerster writes speculative science fiction, practices mixed martial arts, and maintains a keen interest in the evolving relationship between technology, law, economics, and human systems.