FinTech Guide 2026 : Canada
Ranked Individuals
Provided by WeirFoulds LLP
Our multidisciplinary legal team has a wealth of experience which we use to guide our clients through complex legal issues related to blockchain technologies, cryptocurrencies, and other digital assets. These clients include institutional and individual investors, exchange platforms, financial institutions and money services businesses, as well as established technology companies and start-ups.
We are at the forefront of new developments and legal precedents in the digital asset and decentralized market in Canada and have obtained first-of-their-kind rulings on digital assets in our courts. Our views and thought leadership are frequently sought by leading media publications and industry groups worldwide.
We are uniquely positioned to deliver strategic advice tailored to business and industry realities facing our clients, with a full appreciation of how legal and risk issues inform business decision-making. We have a sophisticated understanding of emerging technologies in an increasingly decentralized and borderless marketplace, and the evolving regulatory pressures and legal uncertainty within which they operate. This allows us to offer practical advice to help our clients navigate these fast changing landscapes to find meaningful business solutions in a digital world.
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WeirFoulds has a well-earned reputation for handling complex and novel crypto-asset disputes. The market-leading team acts for private individuals, crypto companies and other industry players in matters spanning fraud, shareholder disputes, cyberattacks and asset tracing and recovery.
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WeirFoulds obtained an Anton Piller Order on a cryptocurrency wallet in Canada on behalf of Cicada 137 LLC. This was the first reported case in Canada where a civil search and seizure order was granted over a crypto wallet.
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Where most firms are rigid in the scope of practice they handle, WeirFoulds is willing to craft a custom solution for the circumstances.
WeirFoulds has unusually deep experience in asset recovery matters involving crypto-assets in Canada.
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Benjamin Bathgate is co-chair of WeirFoulds' blockchain and digital assets practice group. Bathgate has led on pioneering crypto-asset recovery matters, securing Canada's first reported instance of a search and seizure order on a cold-storage cryptocurrency wallet. He also acts on commercial disputes and fraud matters, including crypto Ponzi schemes.
Clients are in good hands with Benjamin.
Ben is very well versed in the crypto world.
Ben Bathgate is so knowledgeable about crypto and digital assets. He is one of the most knowledgeable and experienced lawyers in this area I know globally.
Jessica Stansfield advises on civil and criminal crypto-asset disputes. She impresses due to her work on multi-jurisdictional fraud and digital asset-tracing and recovery matters.
Jessica is bright, dedicated and keenly insightful.
Crypto-Asset Disputes
Crypto-Asset Disputes
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