Antonia Teleman

A business lawyer, Antonia joined d&a partners in September 2022. She has developed a practice spanning corporate matters and regulatory counsel, with a strong focus on crypto-asset transactions and decentralised finance. At d&a partners, she operates at the intersection of law, technology and transactional strategy

Structuring, DAOs, DeFi & Complex Transactions

Antonia advises on the most sophisticated structures in the decentralised ecosystem: DAO structuring under French law, constitution of DeFi protocols and establishment of crypto-asset investment funds. At d&a partners, the first French law firm to have developed a dedicated practice in these structures, she covers the full legal chain — from protocol design to contractual documentation.

Antonia focuses on the contractual dimension of DeFi: drafting and negotiating integration agreements, structuring liquidity arrangements and framing on-chain governance. Her approach combines legal expertise with a direct reading of protocol architectures and smart contracts, producing precise documentation grounded in the functional reality of protocols.

Venture Capital & Fundraising

Antonia advises founders and investment funds on their equity, debt and crypto-asset financing transactions. Her practice covers the full scope of contractual documentation: term sheets, shareholders’ agreements, investment agreements.

Her matters regularly involve blockchain and crypto-asset sectors, for transactions with institutional players or early-stage projects, often in technically complex and highly regulated environments.

Mergers & Acquisitions: Tech, Blockchain & Regulated Environments

Antonia advises on M&A transactions involving technology-driven companies — blockchain, fintech — acting for both acquirers and sellers. She handles legal due diligence, transactional documentation and strategic negotiations, in close coordination with all parties to the transaction.

She also handles transactions involving crypto-assets themselves: acquisition of decentralised protocols, transfer of on-chain treasuries and assignment of governance rights.

Teaching

Antonia teaches in the Banking and Financial Law Master’s programme at the University of Montpellier, one of France’s leading specialised programmes in regulated financial law. She brings a practitioner’s perspective on crypto-assets and decentralised finance, directly informed by her day-to-day caseload at the firm.

Corporate Life & General Counsel

Alongside her crypto-asset practice, Antonia advises clients on all aspects of day-to-day corporate matters: governance, restructurings and growth transactions, ongoing corporate management. This breadth of expertise enables her to provide comprehensive legal support, from routine corporate housekeeping to the most complex transactions.

Deal List

– Advised Data Factory on its merger with Hivenet and Policloud, giving rise to Antimatter, with the aim of establishing France as a central player in global artificial intelligence — May 2026

– Advised the founders of Stakin, a leading institutional staking platform, on its acquisition by The Tie, the leading data and institutional solutions platform for crypto-assets — Mar. 2026

– Advised the founders of Suzaku, an innovative project dedicated to the secure decentralisation of the Avalanche ecosystem, on its structuring and fundraising totalling $1.5 million — Oct. 2025

– Advised Million Victories, the Lyon-based studio behind the mobile strategy game Million Lords, on its $40 million Series B fundraising led by Haveli Investment — Sep. 2025

– Advised the founders of DFNS, a wallet-as-a-service platform for crypto-assets, on its $16 million Series A fundraising led by Further, an asset management platform — Jan. 2025

– Advised Crunch Lab, a collective intelligence protocol using Web3 technologies to produce and sell market predictions, on its $3.5 million fundraising led by Multicoin Capital — [month] 2025

– Advised Morpho, a decentralised blockchain lending and borrowing protocol, on its $50 million fundraising led by Ribbit Capital, alongside a16z, Coinbase Ventures, Variant, Brevan Howard, Pantera Capital and BlockTower Capital — Aug. 2024

– Advised Unshut Labs on the disposal of @conversapp, its secure messaging application built on XMTP, to XMTP Labs, the developer of the XMTP decentralised messaging network — 2025

– Advised Hyli on its $2.6 million fundraising led by Framework Ventures, a leading crypto-focused venture capital firm — May 2024

– Advised Fxhash Foundation, the reference platform for on-chain generative art, on its $5 million fundraising led by 1kx and Fabric Ventures — Aug. 2023

– Advised Swaap Finance, a next-generation decentralised market-making protocol enabling liquidity providers to generate sustainable returns, on its €4.1 million fundraising led by Signature Ventures — Apr. 2023