By Marcus Chen
The pitch is always clean: a token represents Treasury bills, private credit, or a building. The closing documents are where that pitch meets the loan terms, the custody agreement, and the question of who gets paid if the issuer goes bankrupt.
Start with the legal claim. Token holders need a right they can enforce against a person who actually has the asset. A smart contract that updates balances is a ledger. By itself, it is not a security interest.
Then look at the words “bankruptcy remote” in the deck. If the sponsor can still reach the assets, change the token, or mix the cash together, those words are not true. Take them out. Investors who later feel misled will quote them.
Transfer rules have to be capable of being followed. A Reg D or Reg S restriction that lives only in a PDF will be breached the first week the token is in a wallet the sponsor does not control. On-chain allowlists are not glamorous. They are how the offering stays the offering you described.
Finally, write the default. Oracles fail, servicers quit, and chains fork. The documents should say who instructs a migration and what the token is worth if the ledger and the legal register disagree. Clients who do this work before launch spend less time in our disputes practice later.
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