# Stuart Hoegner

> Stuart Hoegner is a startup investor at Bitfinex (Toronto). See 0 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Bitfinex](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bitfinex)
- Location: Toronto, Canada
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stuart-hoegner/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/bitcoinlawyer

Stuart Hoegner is a General Counsel at Bitfinex.International cryptocurrency lawyer & accountant based in Canada representing leading entrepreneurs and businesses in dynamic market spaces.Appeared as an expert on cryptocurrency issues before securities commissions and regulators, the Department of Finance, the Canadian Intellectual PropertyOffice, and the Senate Standing Committee on Banking, Trade, and Commerce. Editor of ‘The Law of Bitcoin’, the world’s first book on the law of cryptocurrencies. Previously spent 8 years in the M&A Tax Group at Ernst & Young and obtained my law degree from the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto.

## About Bitfinex

VC Fund · Taipei, Taiwan

Bitfinex is a digital asset trading platform offering state-of-the-art services for digital currency traders and global liquidity providers.Founded in 2012, Bitfinex was one of the first professional platforms set up to accommodate for the booming interest in cryptocurrency trading. Since then, our team has gained invaluable experience whilstcementing our spot as the go-to platform for digital asset traders and institutions.Starting as the only P2P based margin trading service, Bitfinex has since cemented its spot as the most liquid BTCUSD exchange in the world, boasting some of the most advanced trading features in the industry. It is the exchange with the highest digital asset trading volume in the world to date.Bitfinex’s strategy focuses on providing unparalleled support, tools, and innovation for professional traders and liquidity providers around the world.

5 contacts available at Bitfinex.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Giancarlo Devasini | CFO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/giancarlo-devasini |
| Jean-Louis van der Velde | CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jl-van-der-velde |
| Paolo Ardoino | CTO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/paolo-ardoino |
| Peter Warrack | Chief Compliance Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/peter-warrack |
| Stuart Hoegner | General Counsel | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stuart-hoegner |

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