Ranking tables
Crypto-Asset Disputes | FinTech
UK-wide
Rankings overview for Departments
Band 1
Bird & Bird 3 Years Ranked
Cooke, Young & Keidan LLP 2 Years Ranked- Clifford Chance LLP
- RPC
Band 2
Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP 2 Years Ranked- DLA Piper LLP
- Enyo Law LLP
Band 3
CMS 1 Years Ranked- Brown Rudnick LLP
- Edmonds Marshall McMahon
- Fieldfisher
- Mishcon de Reya LLP
- Rahman Ravelli Solicitors
Band 1
Sam Roberts Cooke, Young & Keidan LLP1 Years Ranked
Stephen Elam Cooke, Young & Keidan LLP1 Years Ranked- Dan WyattRPC
- Sarah MountainRPC
Band 2
Charlotte Hill Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP1 Years Ranked- Kushal Gandhi CMS1 Years Ranked
Louise Abbott Keystone Law1 Years Ranked- Sophie Eyre Bird & Bird1 Years Ranked
- Jessica LeeBrown Rudnick LLP
- Kate ScottClifford Chance LLP
- Rhymal PersadMishcon de Reya LLP
- Stephen CartwrightFieldfisher
- Syedur RahmanRahman Ravelli Solicitors
- Tim EllissEnyo Law LLP
All Departments profiles
Band 1
1 Bird & BirdCrypto-Asset Disputes2025 | Band 1 | 3 Years RankedBird & Bird successfully acted for the Crypto Open Patent Alliance in its case against Dr Craig Wright, concerning the ownership of intellectual property rights in Bitcoin. After a six-week trial, Mellor J ruled that Dr Wright was not Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of the Bitcoin network.1 Cooke, Young & Keidan LLPCrypto-Asset Disputes2025 | Band 1 | 2 Years RankedCooke, Young & Keidan represented two of the defendants in Tulip Trading v van der Laan. Tulip Trading, a company owned and run by Dr Craig Wright, claimed that it was the owner of around 110,000 BTC and equivalent tokens on forked chains, and it demanded that the defendant Bitcoin developers introduce changes to the Bitcoin Core source code to enable it to access these tokens. Following Mellor J's ruling in the COPA v Wright case that Dr Craig Wright was not Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of the Bitcoin network, Tulip Trading discontinued its action against the developers.
Band 2
2 Penningtons Manches Cooper LLPCrypto-Asset Disputes2025 | Band 2 | 2 Years RankedPenningtons Manches Cooper frequently advises on cryptocurrency fraud cases, and its lawyers handle asset-tracing projects and recovery of stolen crypto assets.
Band 3
3 CMSCrypto-Asset Disputes2025 | Band 3 | 1 Years RankedCMS are our go-to for crypto disputes. They take a practical approach to disputes. They also know our tech really well, and it comes through in the matters.