Testifying and Consulting Experts

AACG experts have been engaged in cryptocurrency disputes and valued crypto-related businesses.

Unique Aspects of Cryptocurrency

The rise of cryptocurrencies and digital assets has spawned services and products from crypto banks to crypto options, creating a range of financial opportunities and risks, as well as related disputes. The very nature of crypto, not backed by any country and facing nascent and rapidly changing legislation and regulation, adds another layer of potentially challengeable activities and corresponding litigation.

Litigation Implications

In addition to general business disputes, trading disputes and options valuations that occur in other businesses, crypto-related businesses present a unique set of risks and potential legal challenges, including violations related to hacking and electronic “wallet” theft, allegations of securities fraud and misleading disclosures, inappropriate protection in crypto lending and rehypothecation, failure of an ETF to replicate or track a cryptocurrency or cryptocurrency index/basket, breaches of fiduciary responsibility and cross-border issues, among others.

Litigation Support Services

AACG provides expert analysis in all facets of crypto-related litigation, including:

• Estimating damages in crypto-business stock market manipulation and cryptocurrency manipulation based on scientifically valid methods applied to the unique features of crypto technology and marketplaces:
  • Accounting for volatility and varying market maturity of different crypto tokens
  • Developing methodologies to value tokens that have speculative expected future income
  • Developing alternative valuation methodologies when traditional methods such as comparable assets/companies are challenged by lack of data
• Tracking cryptocurrency and crypto capital gains related to taxation and tax evasion
• Analysis of money laundering schemes
• Analyses in crypto-derivatives markets
• Analysis of investment fraud/scams and corresponding damages
• Initial Coin Offerings
• Trading abuses
• Breaches of fiduciary responsibility and assessment of corresponding damages
• Asset tracing across multiple crypto “wallets” and crypto-currencies related to alleged theft, hacking or scams, trust and estate litigation, marital dissolutions, etc.