Topic: Cryptoassets
Subscribe to CryptoassetsBanking Litigation Trends – Spring 2024 Update
April 15, 2024
Our Banking Litigation Trends publication explains the risks that financial institutions face so you can take practical steps to manage and prepare for them.
2024 Annual Litigation Trends Survey findings
February 12, 2024
The report is based on a survey of more than 400 general counsel and in-house litigation leaders based in the United States and Canada in industries including financial services, technology, healthcare, energy, retail, real estate and construction.
Court refuses to enforce foreign arbitration award against cryptocurrency exchange user
September 29, 2023
Discussing the Court's decision in Payward Inc and Others v Chechetkin [2023] EWHC 1780 (Comm).
Discussing the Law Commission’s Digital assets: Final report
August 22, 2023
Adam Sanitt has written a briefing discussing the highly anticipated Law Commission’s Digital assets: Final report.
Proprietary injunction against a crypto-exchange? Not so fast…
June 08, 2023
Discussing the first reported decision in which freezing injunctions relating to misappropriation of crypto-assets initially granted on a without notice basis have been discharged by the High Court on their return date.
Tulip Trading litigation: Do bitcoin developers owe a fiduciary duty to users?
May 30, 2023
Discussing the latest decision in the Tulip Trading v van der Laan litigation.
Banking Litigation Trends
February 01, 2023
Our Banking Litigation Trends publication summarising the trends we saw in 2022, and the key risks we anticipate banks and financial institutions may face in 2023.
High Court assists alleged victim of crypto-theft to seek recovery
December 02, 2022
In LMN v Bitflyer Holdings Inc and others [2022] EWHC 2954 (Comm), the High Court granted powerful ‘information orders’ under the court’s Norwich Pharmacal and Bankers Trust jurisdiction against cryptocurrency exchanges that are competitors to the claimant-applicant LMN.
The Law Commission's 'data objects': Digital assets as a new property class
August 01, 2022
A consultation paper lays the foundation for treating digital assets as legal property under English law
Collapse of another algorithmic stablecoin highlights litigation risks for investors
May 30, 2022
A discussion of potential causes of action that may arise from both algorithmic and traditional asset-backed stablecoins and sets out the risk factors associated with litigation involving blockchain technology.