With UK forces having boarded for the first time a ship carrying sanctioned Russian oil, Syed Rahman of Rahman Ravelli details the reasons and legal basis for the action.
The Financial Conduct Authority worked with other agencies on its first operation against illegal peer-to-peer crypto trading. Rahman Ravelli’s Syed Rahman considers the significance of the action tak...
The UK is finalising its regulatory regime for cryptoassets. Syed Rahman of Rahman Ravelli outlines the stages involved in achieving this, the possible positive effects and how these can be obtained.
The Commercial Court has refused to grant anti-suit relief for a derivative action brought in the British Virgin Islands. The Claimants alleged that the action breached an exclusive jurisdiction claus...
Investment in AI data centres continues at pace, and as a result innovative ways of structuring the funding have emerged.
A crypto wallet freezing order (CWFO) is a legal measure that compels a cryptocurrency exchange (or other custodian of particular cryptoassets) to lock a particular account. This is done in order to p...
Winning an arbitration is only part of the process. The real value of an arbitration award lies in being able to enforce it.
The court decided not to narrow a worldwide freezing order obtained by Russian lender VTB, although it did acknowledge some of the respondents’ arguments. Syed Rahman of Rahman Ravelli outlines the re...