McHale Muldoon is a well established law firm based in Dublin with vast experience in financial services litigation. We have set up a dedicated department to help clients with crypto related disputes.
The team we have assembled includes renown specialists in the fields of digital asset recovery, such as crypto fraud, who practice in England and Dubai, as well as Ireland, thereby ensuring that cross-border tracing is maximised. We also are specialists in the regulatory requirements which crypto exchanges are required to obey in Ireland and further afield, when establishing and operating DLT blockchains, as well as Central Bank Digital Currencies, DAOs and non-fungible tokens.
Recent reported successes include Jones v Persons Unknown and Huobi [2022] EWHC 2543 (Comm), which was the first reported summary judgment award, and Mooij v Persons Unknown [2024] EWHC 814 (Comm), which has clarified the law on obtaining judgment against persons unknown.
The McHale Muldoon crypto team works in the UK, Ireland and Dubai and recently obtained summary judgment for c.£2 million on behalf of his client in Jones v Persons Unknown and Others [2022] EWHC 2543 (Comm) which contained four new developments in the English High Court: (1) the imposition of a constructive trust between a crypto exchange and...
Cryptocurrency scams continue to surge and are becoming increasingly sophisticated, with most scams being connected to large scale organised criminal gangs from across the globe; often using Artificial Intelligence ("AI") to target victims.