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Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Testifying Experts for High-Stakes Disputes
Complex analysis. Clear explanations. Cross-examination ready.
Trusted by Leading Global Law Firms for Complex Digital Asset Matters.
FTI Technology helps law firms navigate high-stakes digital asset matters through multidisciplinary teams of testifying experts, blockchain specialists, investigators, forensic accountants and economists.
2019
First Digital Asset Investigation
5
Countries Testified
100+
Offered Evidence
Complex Digital Asset Matters Require More Than Blockchain Expertise
Success often depends on combining blockchain intelligence, financial analysis, investigative experience and expert testimony.
Courtroom-proven crypto and blockchain experts
Driven by seasoned subject-matter experts with extensive courtroom and cross-examination experience, our professionals use sound investigative methodologies to analyze and investigate complex disputes involving dense technical elements. Our expert reports and corresponding evidence are defensible, withstand intense scrutiny and hold up under strenuous courtroom cross-examination.
Advanced on-chain forensics and methodologies
Our investigations extend beyond standard track-and-trace investigations. We leverage industry-standard forensic tools and digital-asset-specific technical investigation techniques to uncover the facts and provide opinions. Our code-level investigations include reviewing industry best practices, security protocols, hidden transaction flows, token analysis, platform assessment, cross-chain tracing, peel chain analytics, complex asset tracing, wallet attribution, stablecoin and tokenization projects, cross-border matters, advanced fraud schemes, token-based asset valuations, smart contract reviews and analysis to translate dense, on- and off-chain data into defensible evidence and expert reports, partnering with legal teams to provide clear, defensible, and court-ready documents for trial.
Cryptocurrency & Digital Asset Investigations
Fraud, theft, regulatory investigations, corporate disputes, controls and security failures.
Hundreds of matters supported
Digital Asset Tracing & Analysis
Cryptocurrency tracing, wallet analysis, fund flows, smart contract reviews, custody assessments, valuations and tokenomics
Billions in digital assets analyzed
Expert Testimony
Independent opinions, expert reports, depositions, arbitration and courtroom testimony
Testimony accepted in multiple jurisdictions worldwide.
Global Leadership
A lot of what we bring today comes from having seen where things don’t quite work. In many cases, the issues are there from the start, when these assets are approached through a traditional lens, or when the technical and exposure risks are not fully understood.
Steven S. McNew Bio »
Senior Managing Director, Global Leader of Blockchain and Digital Assets
Houston, TX, United States
The Experience Behind the Team
Former government officials
Former law enforcement professionals
Blockchain and digital asset investigators
Forensic accountants
Expert witnesses
Litigation consultants
Our cryptocurrency and blockchain experts bring direct experience from complex disputes, investigations and industry matters allowing our teams to quickly engage when the issues are technical, facts are messy and timelines are compressed.
Proven in High-Stakes Matters
Our cryptocurrency and blockchain experts have worked on matters involving exchange failures, cryptocurrency fraud, regulatory investigations, bankruptcy proceedings, commercial litigation and cross-border disputes.
- Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Expert Testimony
Experienced testifying experts provide independent opinions in significant cryptocurrency, blockchain and digital asset litigation and disputes, including matters involving industry standards and practices, market activity, fraud, theft and corporate conflicts. - Digital Assets Bankruptcy & Restructuring
Leading experts in digital assets bankruptcy engagements providing advisory work in high-profile cases, including Celcius (represented UCC), FTX (represented UCC), Core Scientific (represented EIC), Blockfills (represented UCC) and Voyager (represented UCC). - Cryptocurrency Investigations & Asset Tracing
Our investigators have supported major digital asset matters involving alleged fraud, theft and illicit fund movements, including the analysis of complex fund flows across decentralized networks.
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Case Study
FTX Bankruptcy and Technical Diligence
The bankruptcy of FTX (including FTX.com and FTX US), once the third-largest global crypto exchange, and Alameda, a crypto trading firm, brought unprecedented challenges to traditional bankruptcy and restructuring proceedings with the need for technical and operational understanding of digital assets. The FTX Unsecured Creditors Committee retained FTI Technology’s Blockchain & Digital Assets practice based on a deep understanding and world-class expertise in the digital assets ecosystem, combined with the award-winning traditional bankruptcy expertise from FTI Consulting’s Corporate Finance segment.
Case Study
A valuation dispute involving a fintech and blockchain organization centered around allegations that losses due to the defendants' wrongful conduct prevented the blockchain from reaching its full potential. FTI Technology’s Blockchain & Digital Assets experts were engaged to provide expert valuation services in support of validating claims and resolving the matter.
Case Study
In proceedings for a large cryptocurrency bankruptcy matter, notices and summons needed to be sent to certain cryptocurrency wallet addresses that had at some point held misappropriated digital assets that should have been part of the bankruptcy, but where the owners of those wallets could not be identified. In this ongoing matter, FTI Technology has helped the legal team develop an innovative tracing methodology and recovery framework to identify and verify unhosted wallets and support recovery efforts.
