Tech Specialist Barrister
Chambers
Sep 2015 - Dec 2024
Represented clients in World leading tech law firsts, including:
★FTX insolvency - represented the Bahamian Financial Regulator (SCB) custody c. $6Bn digital assets
★ Secured the World's first injunction to freeze stolen NFTs
★ Secured, for the fist time in the UK, permission to serve legal proceedings by NFT
★ Appeared in the single highest value (£500 million) intellectual property claim concerning crypto in the world
★ Advised liquidators, Grant Thornton LLP, in the Cryptopia insolvency
★ Involvement in the Dr Craig Wright intellectual property litigation concerning Bitcoin
★ Represented the claimant in the first reported contested crypto asset recovery case
★ Advised daily on the regulatory taxonomy of digital assets, including digital currencies and NFTs
★ Managed a team at the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in a £60M pension fraud investigation while on secondment
★ Represented clients on AML, CTF and broader white collar compliance issues