Yearly Archives: 2019

US depositions

Posted on May 9, 2019 by Darren Butt

We are representing a bank plaintiff in a USD 1 billion claim in the US regarding the obligations of former employees to give depositions in England to the opponent’s lawyers and representing the employees in the deposition taking.

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Day trading platform dispute

Posted on May 9, 2019 by Darren Butt

We are acting for a brokerage in a financial dispute with a trader claiming £10 million profit on allegedly unauthorised trades.  We have been advising our clients on the strategy in French proceedings and whether the profit could be returned …

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Frankfurt Stock Exchange dispute

Posted on May 9, 2019 by Darren Butt

We are acting for a London based trader at a US hedge fund with USD30 billion in assets under management in successfully disputing sanctions imposed on him by the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (with FCA consequences) over the use by his …

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Anglo-Italian jurisdiction dispute

Posted on May 9, 2019 by Darren Butt

We are currently acting for a major Italian utilities company in a dispute with a major bank over interest rate swaps and associated financial transactions involving complex jurisdiction issues concerning proceedings brought in the English and Italian courts and competing …

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Liability of litigation funders dispute

Posted on May 9, 2019 by Darren Butt

We acted in a complex £multi-million dispute with a bank and its advisors regarding the liability of third-party litigation funders .

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Advising a commodity derivatives platform

Posted on May 8, 2019 by Darren Butt

We advised a commodity derivatives platform, on the regulatory and commercial aspects of managing its platform. In particular we provided perimeter regulatory guidance as to whether the platform could be undertaking regulated activities in various scenarios, in order to conduct …

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Funding for cross-channel information platform

Posted on May 8, 2019 by Darren Butt

We advised on the ‘Series A’ funding of a company operating a cross channel platform for secure authentication and information exchange for the banking, government, healthcare, e-commerce sectors.

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Crypto currency trading platform

Posted on May 8, 2019 by Darren Butt

We advised a central Europe-based client building a platform offering access to artificial-intelligence powered crypto currency trading tools, on UK regulation regarding ICOs and token sales.

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ICO for Stablecoin project

Posted on May 8, 2019 by Darren Butt

We advised a Japanese based client on the legal and regulatory aspects in regards to raising funds via an initial coin offering (ICO) for its stablecoin project.

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ICO corporate and regulatory advice

Posted on May 8, 2019 by Darren Butt

We advised a leading provider of regulatory services in the crypto space on a range of corporate and regulatory matters, including the regulatory impact of selling initial coin offerings (ICOs) into the UK market, various block trades in crypto currencies, …

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