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Sponsored briefing: Novel issues facing Cayman insolvency professionals dealing with crypto assets

Conyers’ Paul Smith, Róisín Liddy-Murphy and Jordan McErlean discuss

This year marked the tenth anniversary of the world’s first cryptocurrency, Bitcoin. Cryptocurrency emerged as a by-product of digital cash with the goal of creating a decentralised currency, which would allow users to anonymously transfer funds online without restriction. Despite its overwhelming success, the crypto market is still very much in its adolescence with little regulatory governance. This article provides an overview of some of the challenges facing Cayman insolvency professionals (IPs) when confronted with insolvent estates possessing crypto assets1.