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Co-founder, M&A, RWAs, Investment Funds

Ramona Tudorancea

Ramona brings over 20 years of experience navigating the complex intersections of cross-border M&A, corporate finance, asset-backed securitizations, and fund formation across several global jurisdictions. As a Partner and Co-Founder at Ixian, she operates at the intersection of law, strategy, governance, and institutional design, helping frontier founders, investors, and various organizations with the legal, governance, and strategic structures required for new economic models and emerging technologies.


She has maintained a practice serving a client base that spans fund managers, blockchain and crypto-native ventures, financial institutions, and multinational corporations. On the corporate and finance side, her practice extends to European M&A for major U.S. firms and public companies, and projects based in the Cayman Islands and the British Virgin Islands, spanning strategic acquisition agreements, due diligence, and complex financing arrangements.


Beyond her legal credentials as a New York attorney, UK solicitor, and Chartered Governance Professional, Ramona is a serial builder: she is the Founder and Managing Director of JupiterBlock Ventures, a venture architecture firm building an ecosystem of value around frontier founders, emerging technologies, and island economies, and a Director of the DAO345 Foundation, a Cayman Islands foundation company supporting experimental collaboration for prototyping, sandboxing, and new legal / organizational forms.

Ramona leads the development of the London office and travels between various island locations.

Career Highlights

  • Advised U.S., Brazilian, and Hong Kong fund managers on investing in cryptocurrencies and other digital assets via Cayman Islands mutual and private fund structures.

  • Supported multiple blockchain projects on corporate governance, economic substance, compliance and Cayman corporate structures, including foundation company structures.

  • Structured Cayman and BVI investment funds, advised on compliance for AML and data protection, and served as Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO).

  • Assisted major US firms including several public companies with European M&A deals.

  • Coordinated strategic acquisition agreements and due diligence investigations, negotiated mezzanine financing, syndicated loan refinancings, private bond placements, and leveraged and distressed buyouts.

  • Supported a multi-year German bank asset-backed securitization program involving multiple receivable pools and Cayman, Jersey, and Delaware structures.

Notable Publications

  • ETHPrague (May 2026): Future Governance with Human & AI Teams: Preserving Human Agency in Network State Environments (Prague, Czechia).

  • INATBA Panel (2025): Liability Compliance for Web3 Devs and Early Stage DAOs.

  • Crypto Valley Association Symposium (May 2024): "Don’t trust, verify — Risk Management in Web3" (Zug, Switzerland).

  • ETHDenver (Feb 2024): "Evolution of Organizations" (Denver, Colorado).

  • International Anti-Money Laundering - International Legal Developments Year in Review: 2023 and 2022, American Bar Association (ABA) Section of International Law.

  • Cayman Merger Take-Privates from NYSE and NASDAQ — 2016 Year in Review, Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance.

Languages

English, French, Romanian

Education

Columbia University School of Law (New York), LL.M. (2007)

University of Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne, Master’s Degree in Business Law (2002)


University of Bucharest, License in Law (2001)

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