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Matt is a specialist litigator for complex and multi-jurisdictional disputes with blockchain technology, and digital assets at their core.  

His practice includes crypto asset recovery for individuals and businesses following a hack, scam or misappropriation, on an urgent basis, obtaining bespoke injunctions, worldwide freezers and specific disclosure orders.

Matt led on the seminal case AA v Persons Unknown [2019] EWHC 3556 (Comm) which confirmed that Bitcoin and crypto assets broadly were “property” at common law across the globe, and helped shape much of the law surrounding the status and strategies in freezing and recovering crypto assets around the world.

This asset recovery strategy means Matt can assist insolvency practitioners where crypto funds are at play, locate and secure assets in matrimonial proceedings and assist insurance providers to recover funds, to name a few. 

His practice also includes commercial litigation and intellectual property disputes involving digital assets broadly (e.g. music, content, art, trade marks and copyrights). 

Matt is ranked in The Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners for Crypto Asset Disputes, he has “unparalleled expertise and knowledge” and “is active in finding the legal solutions required in this nascent and fast-moving industry.”

ACADEMIC: LECTURING AND PUBLICATIONS

Matt has also co-authored academic papers on blockchain and crypto assets including: NFT Legal and Regulatory Compliance: Connoisseurship and Critique and Decentralised Autonomous Organisations: The Future of Corporate Governance or an Illusion both in SSRN’s top ten downloads of their respective months.

He is also Published in Bitcoin Magazine: Now That Bitcoin Is Considered Property In The UK, Reclaiming Ransomed Assets Sent To Exchanges Is Much Easier

Matt lectures at the University of Cambridge speaking at the Law Faculty to their Digital Economy Masters class on "Crypto Assets as Property and Decoding Blockchains- Civil Litigation and Crypto Asset Recovery: A Legal and Technical Perspective" and was a guest speaker at their Blockchain Society “On the Hook: Regulating Web3”. He has also lectured at the University of Nottingham’s Masters and PHD class on “When Crypto Assets Became Property: How It Happened And What Happened Next”.

PRESS ARTICLES AND TECHUK  

Matt assisted in the preparation of TechUK’s response to the Law Commission’s Consultation Paper on Digital Assets, and featured in: Fireside Chat with Matt Green: Crypto: What is it and how does it work where things go wrong he is also asked to comment on industry events and current affairs.

Matt is also the Chairman for techUK’s Blockchain and Digital Assets working group, designed to (i) consider opportunities for growth (ii) help steer the industry by giving a collective voice to stakeholders large and small ; and (iii) help educate how both this technology and asset class shape the financial services sector and beyond.

PODCAST AND CONFERENCE SPEAKER

Matt is the Founder and host of In Early, a podcast featured in The Lawyer’s Briefing Room, speaking to those at the forefront of blockchain and technology considering the growth and growing pains of the industry and the stories of those at the forefront of the sector. Guest have included established global custodians like BitGo, technical providers like Coincover, to asset recovery investigators and advisors like Asset Reality, NFT and fractional mining projects, to sports initiatives in Web3. The podcast can be found on YouTube, Apple, and Spotify. 

Matt is a regular conference speaker including Crypto AM Summit,  World Litigation Forum, Belfast De-Fi Conference, House of Block 2024 and the Fraud Advisory Panel's Demystifying NFT Theft and Fraud event, and various Thought Leaders 4 Crypto in Disputes events. He has guested on Twitter spaces with Grant Thornton and Nimble insurance, on “Fine Art Pieces In The Blockchain Ecosystem” specifically on the recovery of assets following a prominent NFT hack. Matt is also featured on Semoto, a leading Digital Asset service marketplace.

Experience highlights

• Acting for a crypto currency brokerage whereby business functionality was blocked by their service and liquid provider following Court Orders obtained by the Secret Service and which resulted in the return of c.$1m of USDT.
• Obtaining reliefs against North Korean hackers following an exploit of an established crypto address provider and serving documents via Ether NFTs.
• Joint proceedings concerning copyright and database claims, as to the identity of the Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto and whether he can exercise intellectual property rights over “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System”.
• Devising a new strategy for the recovery of (i) private keys, preventing access to billions of pounds worth of Bitcoin, and (ii) other crypto assets worth millions as part of a wider hack. 
• Securing private Court Orders against and working with major cryptocurrency exchanges to freeze funds and comply with enforcement provisions following sophisticated investment platform and romance scams.