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Seizing and Selling Crypto Assets in Civil and Commercial Disputes

28 Jun 2024

Location: 12:00-1:00 pm UK Time Virtual Event (Zoom)
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Seizing and Selling Crypto Assets in Civil and Commercial Disputes

Highlights

As digital assets continue to reshape the global economy, examining the complexities of cryptocurrency within legal conflicts is essential. Led by our industry experts, this session will cover the nuances of seizing and liquidating crypto assets and the best practices to ensure fair and efficient resolutions in litigation scenarios.

This webinar is part of our Crypto & Digital Assets in Disputes series

Julie Metois
Avocat à la Cour | Counsel
Allen & Overy (France)

My expertise includes advising and assisting companies before French Civil and Commercial Courts and during regulatory investigations. I also advise clients with respect to recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments, international attachments and seizure proceedings.


Julie Metois
Julie Metois Avocat à la Cour | Counsel
Allen & Overy (France)
Stephen O'Connor
Partner
Ogier (Ireland)

Stephen is a partner in Ogier Leman's Dispute Resolution team, with extensive experience in commercial litigation in the High Court, the Commercial Division of the High Court, the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court or otherwise dealt with through mediation or arbitration. He specialises in managing financial services litigation, advising financial institutions, lenders and borrowers, corporate clients and shareholders in contractual, technology and financial services disputes involving banking, pensions, insurance, funds and debt recovery and enforcement. He also specialises in commercial litigation, insolvency and restructuring, receivership, fraud and asset trading, breaches of fiduciary duty, contentious trusts and professional negligence.


Stephen O’Connor
Stephen O'Connor Partner
Ogier (Ireland)
Dan Sutch
Associate Director
Grant Thornton

Dan is an Associate Director in Grant Thornton’s Corporate Intelligence team. He has over 12 years’ experience of fraud investigation, asset tracing and digital forensics. He is a Certified Fraud Examiner and open-source intelligence specialist.

Dan supports Grant Thornton’s market-leading Insolvency and Asset Recovery practice and leads on blockchain investigations for the digital asset recovery team. Recent ‘crypto’ work has included tracing losses resulting from fraud, hacks and director misfeasance.

Outside of the digital assets space, Dan’s investigations focus on contentious insolvencies, non-performing loan recovery and commercial disputes.


Dan Sutch
Dan Sutch Associate Director
Grant Thornton
Simon Mills
Barrister
Radcliffe Chambers

Simon Mills is an experienced commercial barrister specialising in commercial litigation and arbitration, in particular civil fraud and asset tracing, banking & finance litigation, and contentious insolvency. 

Most of his crypto work involves fraud, but he also appeared as counsel in the case Wonop APS v Fetch.AI Ltd [2023] (Commercial Court) which concerned the meaning of “total circulating supply” of digital tokens. 

Simon is an established author on a wide-range of topics on the law of business, insolvency and finance, including “Salinger on Factoring” (2020) and “Goode on Proprietary Rights and Insolvency in Sales Transactions” (2010). A new updated edition of Salinger is due to be published in 2024.


Simon Mills
Simon Mills Barrister
Radcliffe Chambers

Agenda

11:55 am
Audience Log On
12:00 pm
Chair's Opening Remarks
Speakers:
Julie Metois - Avocat à la Cour | Counsel - Allen & Overy (France)
12:05 pm
Seizing and Selling Crypto Assets in Civil and Commercial Disputes
Speakers:
Simon Mills - Barrister - Radcliffe Chambers
Dan Sutch - Associate Director - Grant Thornton
Stephen O’Connor - Partner - Ogier (Ireland)
12:45 pm
Panel Q&A
1:00 pm
Chair's Closing Remarks
Speakers:
Julie Metois - Avocat à la Cour | Counsel - Allen & Overy (France)

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