I'm a partner in our Insolvency and Asset Recovery team. I lead our Digital Asset Recovery practice, which combines blockchain analytics with corporate intelligence and digital forensic techniques to conduct investigations, insolvency proceedings, court-appointed receiverships, and other civil procedures and litigation funding to formulate legal claims and enforce judgments.
I have acted as a liquidator in a number of virtual asset service providers in Bermuda and the British Virgin Islands, and been engaged as a crypto-markets expert in support of litigation. My team regularly produces blockchain analytics tracing reports in support of civil recovery litigation processes on a range of matters including hacks and other exploits, investment scams, Ponzi schemes, and thefts.
I collaborate with our corporate intelligence, forensic, digital, and international colleagues to achieve the best results for our clients, and can operate under a variety of fee structures, often on a contingent basis or with the benefit of third-party funding.
I have experience working in the public and private sectors, having taken instruction from government departments and local authorities in the UK, non-UK governments, and international companies.
My recent engagements include:
- Appointed Joint Liquidator on the solvent liquidation of Bittrex Global (Bermuda) Ltd, a Class F licensed digital asset exchange under Bermuda’s Digital Asset Business Act 2018, in March 2024. Oversaw the management of a complex crypto asset portfolio valued at approximately USD $130 million across 700+ tokens and a global customer base exceeding 250,000. Responsibilities included compliance with Bermuda’s Companies Act 1981 and multiple Supreme Court orders, as well as statutory and regulatory reporting obligations.
- Instructed to trace the movement of digital assets misappropriated by a fraudulent digital asset investment platform, in support of a client’s application to repatriate frozen assets under the newly introduced s.303Z of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002. This matter marked the first known use of the legislation by a private sector asset recovery team.
- Engaged as a crypto markets expert in litigating involving the valuation and liquidation of a centralised-exchange issued utility token. This engagement involved a consideration of comparable tokens, the sourcing and evaluation of historic trading and valuation data and the sector-specific factors which impact the quality and reliability of such data and support in the broader valuation exercise.
- Instruction to trace and assist in the recovery of USD 4 million worth of digital assets stolen from an online gaming platform by persons unknown, which involved the production of blockchain analytic tracing reports in support of court applications to freeze digital assets and compel disclosure from centralised exchanges and other services.
- Instructed by the liquidators of an insolvent cryptocurrency trading platform to trace approximately USD 40 million of digital assets invested in the platform. The investigation has mapped the flow of investor funds through blockchain addresses to exchange accounts and supported applications for disclosure and freezing orders made in Gibraltar, and analysed the disclosed information and documentation to incorporate into the investigation. My team has supported the liquidators as technical advisers in court during public examination to identify all available opportunities for recovery.
I'm the Vice Chair and a founding member of CFAAR, the Crypto Fraud and Asset Recovery Network, a global organisation of 2.500 lawyers, barristers, forensic accountants, corporate intelligence and asset recovery professionals specialising in digital asset disputes and regulatory developments. I am the Co-chair of INSOL Europe’s Anti-Fraud Forum, with over 100 lawyers, accountants, and insolvency practitioners specialising in fraud, asset tracing, and recovery. Through these roles and in my own capacity I regularly speak in my areas of specialism at conferences and other forums, write articles and contribute to responses to regulatory and legal consultations on digital assets.
