Topic: Fintech

Focusing on key cases, developments and hot topics to help in-house counsel to stay up to date.

Setting out areas of disputes risk which companies and individuals in the DeFi space should be aware of.

Considering the litigation and regulatory risks faced by banks, guidance from the courts and some practical pointers when making a decision to freeze or close a customer account.

Discussing the decision in Crypto Open Patent Alliance v Wright [2024] EWHC 1198 (Ch).

Adam Sanitt has written a briefing discussing the highly anticipated Law Commission’s Digital assets: Final report.

Our Information governance, privacy and cybersecurity team have written an article discussing the rise of ChatGPT.

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.

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.

A consultation paper lays the foundation for treating digital assets as legal property under English law

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.