Crypto-Asset Disputes

About

Provided by Shoosmiths LLP

Shoosmiths' team includes precedent setting and blockchain native lawyers who have substantial experience in deal with complex multijurisdictional litigation involving blockchain technology and recovering cryptocurrencies and NFTs.

Highly specialised, experienced and client centric, our agile lawyers are the market leaders for all things blockchain- including experts who have been instrumental in setting much of the law in this sector and across the globe. Through a dedicated blockchain sector-focused litigation practice, Shoosmiths is able to draw on years of expertise, market knowledge and sharing, and thought leadership to adapt to the extremely fast paced blockchain and digital assets sector.

Digital asset recovery

We recover digital assets, like Bitcoin and Ether, stable coins, non-fungible tokens and all other crypto assets, whether due to fraud, payment of a ransom under an insurance policy, insolvency and where parties are seeking to obfuscate particular digital assets.

Our team includes precedent setters who have shaped the entire legal landscape around crypto assets, including the rule that crypto assets like Bitcoin are “property” under common law (see Matt Green’s seminal case of AA v Persons Unknown Re Bitcoin, 2019), which fundamentally shaped the treatment of crypto assets across the world. Since then, the team continues to secure High Court decisions which seek the ringfencing and then return of digital assets.