Christian Brockman

Christian Brockman is a partner and member of Chapman’s Corporate and Securities Department and Investment Management Group. He brings a unique commercial perspective from his experience as general counsel to guide private fund sponsors, institutional investors, and digital-asset businesses through complex transactional and regulatory matters, with a particular focus on the digital asset and cryptocurrency ecosystem.

Christian counsels clients across the full life cycle of private funds, including fund structuring and formation, operations, and regulatory and tax compliance. He has extensive experience structuring and launching a wide variety of investment vehicles, including venture capital, hedge, real estate, private credit, and GP stakes funds. He advises on core transactional documentation across fund and sponsor operations, including offering materials, governing documents, side letters, investment management and advisory agreements, and related commercial arrangements. He also counsels sponsors on ongoing regulatory compliance and operational implementation, including Form ADV and compliance program design, review of marketing and disclosure materials, and sponsor–service provider arrangements.

Christian also advises fund sponsors and investment firms on sponsor-level structuring and strategic transactions that shape how investment management platforms operate in practice, including GP and management company economics and governance, strategic partnerships, and other sponsor-level and platform arrangements.

Christian advises clients on product structuring and regulatory strategy for digital asset, tokenized, and onchain products, including tokenized real-world assets, vaults, automated strategies, and yield products. He focuses on embedding regulatory strategy into the product’s actual mechanics. He leads multidisciplinary regulatory teams across securities, commodities, stablecoins and payments, AML/KYC, and tax so that product design, documentation, and go-to-market materials align. He translates those mechanics into plain‑English terms and disclosures that match how the product operates in practice while allocating risk clearly. He then carries that design into the key commercial and operational relationships that determine day-to-day functionality, including trading/execution, custody, technology, and distribution arrangements.

Christian also writes comment letters and engages in policy advocacy focused on market structure and regulatory clarity for onchain finance.

Prior to joining Chapman, Christian was General Counsel for ParaFi Capital, a leading crypto-focused investment manager, and its affiliated blockchain technology company, ParaFi Technologies. In this role, he built and led the legal and compliance function, served as a key strategic adviser to the business on product launches and branding, and managed all legal aspects of the firm’s venture and hedge fund portfolios. This in-house experience provides him with a deep understanding of the business drivers and operational realities his clients face every day.

Prior to his in-house role, Christian practiced law with an investment management-focused firm in San Francisco, advising crypto and other private funds on fund formation, investor negotiations, and trading documentation. Christian started his legal career at Am Law 50 law firms advising institutional investors and fund managers on private fund investments, regulatory filings, and cross-border compliance.