Darren Azman
FinTech Guide 2025
Band 4 : Crypto-Asset Disputes
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About
Provided by Darren Azman
Practice Areas
Darren Azman is a member of the firm-wide Management Committee and a partner in the Business Restructuring group. Darren’s practice focuses on corporate restructurings, creditors’ rights and distressed acquisitions. His clients include troubled companies, official creditors’ committees, private equity sponsors, financial and strategic purchasers of distressed assets and others in connection with in-court and out-of-court restructurings.
Darren has distinct restructuring experience in the fields of energy, manufacturing, healthcare, blockchain and cryptocurrency, technology, maritime and transportation, and cross-border restructurings, including insolvency proceedings involving Canada, British Virgin Islands, Brazil, Germany, Japan, South Korea and other countries. He routinely litigates matters in US Bankruptcy Courts.
Darren is a recognized leader in the cryptocurrency space, having led the representation of the official committee of unsecured creditors in the first-ever crypto chapter 11 case, Cred. Inc. His efforts in Cred have led to the development of novel case law that has generated millions of dollars of recoveries for creditors, including obtaining a court order requiring Cred’s former chief capital officer to return more than $6m of stolen cryptocurrency within 30 minutes after the court hearing concluded. Darren is now leading the representation of the official committee of unsecured creditors in the chapter 11 case of Voyager Digital, a crypto exchange with more than 1 million customers. He is also now representing the official committee of unsecured creditors in the first crypto mining chapter 11 case, Compute North.
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Chambers Review
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Darren Azman is a partner in McDermott Will & Emery's business restructuring group, focusing on crypto-asset-related bankruptcy matters.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Darren is very good at representing creditors' committees and knows how to find consensus."
"Darren Azman is one of the best bankruptcy attorneys in the country."
"Darren is very good at representing creditors' committees and knows how to find consensus."
"Darren Azman is one of the best bankruptcy attorneys in the country."