Adam Crane
Partner, Cayman Islands
Adam is a Partner at Baker & Partners (Cayman) Limited with a focus on Fraud & Asset recovery.
Web3 & Digital Asset Disputes
Our team have pioneering experience in the Web3 and Digital Asset Disputes space being first to wind-up a cryptocurrency exchange in the Cayman Islands. We comprehensively advise on Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) as we understand the offshore legal wrappers that DAOs are adopting, their ethos, governance structures, communities and unique features which make them a legal and regulatory novelty.
Problem
Not everyone understands the Web3 landscape or the new approaches which are emerging to solve the legal and regulatory issues already arising from these virtual ecosystems. At Baker & Partners, we’re passionate about keeping pace with these global and fast paced developments to find the best on-chain and off-chain solutions to these complex issues.
Solved
Whether your case has a Web3 & Digital Asset Dispute component to it; you are a victim of a cryptocurrency theft, investment scam or fraud; you’re a participant or a director of a DAO, or have contracted with a DAO; or you have money laundering or other regulatory concerns: our depth of knowledge in this area and our network of hand-picked experts in the fields of digital asset tracing, forensic accounting, insolvency, regulatory compliance and audit sets us apart.
Our Web3 & Digital Asset Disputes Services Include
- Representing creditors of cryptocurrency exchanges and funds
- Digital asset recovery
- Intellectual property
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Regulatory and compliance
- Employment
Why you should work with Baker & Partners
- We are an independent litigation boutique which means we will always provide conflict free advice to founders, investors, participants, creditors, directors, supervisors and secretaries of Cayman Foundation Companies, software developers and other DAO service providers
- We are the first firm to successfully wind up a Cayman domiciled holding company of a defunct cryptocurrency exchange following the high-profile collapse of FTX
- We are regularly requested to consult with victims of digital asset thefts, frauds and investment scams
- We have deep knowledge of DAOs and the offshore legal wrappers which hold them and can advise on a range of disputes and regulatory issues
- We have experience in serving offshore cryptocurrency exchanges with foreign legal process
- We have built a specialist network of insolvency practitioners, independent directors, investigators, forensic accountants and auditors who were hand-picked by us for their credible expertise in this area
- We deliver training on the regulatory, money laundering and fraud risks associated with DAOs
Web3 & Digital Asset Disputes Representative Work
- Winding up of the Cayman Islands holding company for the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange, Atom Asset Exchange. This was the first winding up of a cryptocurrency enterprise in the Cayman Islands.
- Assisting victims of crypto frauds, thefts and scams with respect to digital asset recovery.
- Advising on tokenised freezing orders.
- Advising on founder disputes.
- Advising family offices on fraud and regulatory risks associated with prospective digital asset investments.
- Advising on intellectual property disputes arising from the development and sale of tokens.
- Advising on the rights and obligations of directors of Cayman Foundation Companies.
- Acting on behalf of one of the co-founders of a collapsed crypto hedge fund in respect to the liquidation of a Cayman domiciled SPV.
- Baker Regulatory Services delivered crypto investigation training to law enforcement agencies in Kenya and Ghana.
- Baker Regulatory Services partnered up with Asset Reality to deliver crypto training to the members of Gafilat the South American law enforcement agency network.
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Jennifer Colegate
Partner, Cayman Islands
Jennifer is a Partner based in Baker & Partners’ Cayman Islands office.
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Nia Statham
Associate, Cayman Islands
Nia is an Associate at Baker & Partners (Cayman) Limited with a focus on asset tracing and recovery, fraud and dispute resolution.
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Nicosia Lawson
Senior Associate, Cayman Islands
Nicosia is a Senior Associate at Baker & Partners (Cayman) Limited with a focus on dispute resolution, restructuring and insolvency.
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Shaun Reardon-John
Partner, BVI
Shaun Reardon-John is a solicitor-advocate and experienced BVI dispute resolution lawyer who was admitted to practice in the BVI in 2012.
Prior to joining Baker & Partners in July 2023 he worked for another BVI law firm for over a decade. -
Barry Faudemer
Chief Executive, Baker Regulatory, Jersey
Barry Faudemer is the Chief Executive of Baker Regulatory Services.
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Zoe Dixon-Smith
Managing Director, Baker Regulatory, Jersey
Zoe Dixon-Smith is Managing Director at Baker Regulatory Services.
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