With many international criminal cases increasingly featuring aspects of cyber-crime, our team has developed significant experience in dealing with crypto- and cyber-crime from both defence and advisory perspectives.

We are experts in interception and surveillance, and regularly advise on data protections issues and breaches, thefts, and crypto-tracing. This, combined with our teams wide-ranging financial crime and fraud practice, ensures that clients have all the support they need to navigate issues within the digital economy.

Notable Experience

  • Advising a Chinese company and associated investors in a civil recovery action by the CPS of the civil recovery of approximately £3 billion of bitcoin.   
  • Acting for a senior executive in the international investigation of Onecoin and its officers and investors.  

News & Insights

25.02.26

PCB Byrne named in Solomonic top 30 ‘powerhouse’ commercial litigation law firms, 2026.

11.02.26

PCB Byrne secures recognition of five Chinese judgments worth c. £25 million

10.02.26

Success in the Court of Appeal

04.02.26

High Court orders Russian oligarch Vladimir Potanin to disclose documents held by Norilsk Nickel in major commercial dispute