Elisenda Fàbrega Retamero

General Counsel at Brickken

Legal clarity for tokenized markets.

She leads legal, regulatory, compliance and governance for tokenized financial instruments and institutional digital-asset infrastructure, embedding regulatory requirements directly into product, engineering and business operations.

Catalan, Spanish and English · Barcelona Bar (ICAB) Opens in a new tab., member 44918

Elisenda Fàbrega Retamero, General Counsel

Professional record

A record built in-house.

Elisenda leads legal, regulatory, compliance and governance work across multiple jurisdictions, translating regulatory requirements into decisions product, engineering and business teams can act on. Her scope covers tokenized financial instruments, institutional digital-asset infrastructure and the commercial agreements that carry them.

She moved from in-house practice at Applus+ IDIADA, where she worked across automotive engineering, testing and software matters, to Brickken in May 2022. She also teaches digital law, blockchain and tokenization, and contributes published analysis and public commentary on European digital-asset regulation.

Formation

  • to

    Law degree, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, completed in 2017.

  • American Law Experience: U.S. Law, Negotiation and Mediation at ISDE in collaboration with Columbia Law School in New York, an intensive non-degree legal training programme.

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    ISDE Double Master's Degree in Bar Preparation, International Law, Foreign Trade & International Relations.

Applus+ IDIADA and the Barcelona Bar

to

Legal Counsel at Applus+ IDIADA, working in-house across commercial, software, consortium and data-protection matters in a multinational automotive engineering business.

Admitted to the Barcelona Bar (ICAB) Opens in a new tab. on , member 44918, and currently registered as non-practising.

Brickken

to present

She joined Brickken in May 2022 and currently serves as General Counsel.

Her remit covers legal, regulatory, compliance and governance work for tokenized financial instruments and institutional digital-asset infrastructure across multiple jurisdictions, from regulatory-perimeter analysis to contracting and product governance.

Expertise index

The legal architecture behind tokenized markets.

These fields are practised together, not separately: the regulatory perimeter decides what an instrument is, institutional controls decide how it can be operated, and transaction design decides whether it holds in contract.

Regulatory perimeter

  • Digital-asset regulation
  • MiCA and CASP regulatory frameworks
  • MiFID II classification and regulatory perimeter
  • Regulatory operations across multiple jurisdictions

Institutional controls

  • Institutional digital-asset infrastructure
  • AML/CFT and institutional onboarding
  • Corporate governance and compliance frameworks
  • Privacy, data protection, digital identity and consent

Tokenization structure

  • Tokenized financial instruments
  • Legal structuring of tokenization initiatives
  • Blockchain and tokenization standardization
  • Issuance and transfer of tokenized instruments

Transaction design

  • Smart-contract enforceability
  • SaaS, API and white-label contracting
  • Cross-border commercial agreements
  • Strategic partnership agreements

Frequently asked questions

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What is Elisenda Fàbrega's current role?

She joined Brickken in May 2022 and currently serves as General Counsel, leading legal, regulatory, compliance and governance work.

What areas does her legal work cover?

Tokenized financial instruments, institutional digital-asset infrastructure, MiCA, MiFID II classification, AML/CFT and institutional onboarding, privacy and data protection, corporate governance and cross-border commercial agreements.

What is her professional and educational background?

She was Legal Counsel at Applus+ IDIADA from March 2019 to May 2022. She holds a law degree from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, completed an intensive non-degree American law programme at ISDE in collaboration with Columbia Law School in January 2017, and completed an ISDE Double Master's Degree from 2017 to 2018.

Which languages does she speak?

Catalan, Spanish and English.

How can journalists or event organizers contact her?

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