Capital markets · Legal engineering · Digital infrastructure
McGonagle Advisory helps financial institutions, market infrastructure providers and technology firms design capital markets products and infrastructure that are legally robust, operationally viable and commercially coherent.
Organisations I’ve worked with
Positioning
Institutional digital-asset and market-infrastructure projects often fail in the gaps between legal design, product architecture and technical implementation. McGonagle Advisory works at that boundary, helping senior teams design products and systems that are commercially coherent, legally grounded and operationally viable.
Services
Engagements are scoped around clear decisions, deliverables and senior stakeholder needs — from strategy through product architecture and independent design review.
Direction, structure, market entry.
Advising leadership teams on product direction, market infrastructure design and digital asset strategy. This includes tokenisation strategy, structuring tokenised financial products, and developing new product models within existing legal, regulatory and market frameworks.
From documentation to data to lifecycle.
Defining how financial products are represented in data, system logic and operating models. This includes lifecycle modelling, documentation-to-data mapping, smart contract logic and tokenised product architectures.
Stress-tested before capital and delivery are committed.
Reviewing proposed products, platforms and architectures to test whether legal rights, obligations, lifecycle events and operational dependencies are accurately reflected before significant capital or delivery effort is committed.
McGonagle Advisory does not provide formal legal or regulatory advice, software development, implementation delivery or staff augmentation. Where legal, regulatory, tax or technical advice is required, the relevant specialist advisers should be engaged.
Approach
Engagements can take the form of focused decision support, structured diagnostics or ongoing senior input into live programmes.
A focused session for boards, founders or leadership teams assessing a product, market-structure opportunity or strategic direction.
A short, structured review of a proposed product, platform or workflow, identifying design gaps, execution risks and decision points.
Senior advisory support for live programmes where legal, product, commercial and technical teams need a common architecture and narrative.
Profile
I have worked at ISDA, leading global financial institutions and financial market infrastructure providers, focused on the legal, operational and technological foundations of digital assets, smart derivatives contracts, tokenisation, computable financial-market workflows.
Industry leadership
Signature Projects
Publications
A selection of publications, expert contributions and journal articles across capital markets law, tokenisation and computable contracts.
LexisNexis Practice Note · Banking & Finance
2024Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Finance Law
2023ISDA Quarterly
2022MIT Computational Law Report
2021Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Finance Law
2019Academic paper with Professor Christopher D. Clack (UCL)
Contact
McGonagle Advisory works with institutions, market infrastructure providers and technology firms where legal design, product architecture and technical execution need to align.
