Crowdfunding is here to stay. Its exponential growth (in Europe doubling every year) shows that the market is seriously looking into new financing alternatives. Crowdfunding platforms pop up all over the place and are expanding rapidly. Inherently, the platforms, as well as the investors and the project owners, become confronted with other jurisdictions. Other national laws and regulations, another regulator, but most importantly another (claims) culture. But what are the risks? Together with CrowdfundingHub, FG Laywers launched a pan-European research in 11 Member States to identify the civil law liability risk in respect to various forms of crowdfunding. You can find the report here: 20160331 – Crowdfunding Crossing Borders Report
