Nia Statham

Nia Statham is a Senior Associate admitted in the BVI, Cayman Islands, and England and Wales. Nia specialises in cross-border digital asset recovery, fraud and asset tracing, with a focus on crypto laundering, DAOs and the Cayman Foundation Company, insolvency and investigations.

Nia is experienced in advising on crypto recovery strategies arising from high-value hacks and thefts. She has acted for two petitioning retail investors in the first winding-up of a Cayman-domiciled holding company behind a defunct cryptocurrency exchange and in a synchronised cross-border receivership petition for the ringfencing of circa USD 800 million in digital assets. She has also been involved in recovery efforts connected with the theft of over 11,000 Bitcoin from a cryptocurrency trading platform and USD 7.65 billion stolen from a Malaysian sovereign wealth fund amid global corruption investigations.  

Nia regularly provides training on DAOs, digital asset recovery and crypto laundering, and has spoken extensively on the topic for panels hosted by the American Bankruptcy Institute, the New York State Bar International Section, The Association of Women in Cryptocurrency, and the Crypto Fraud and Asset Recovery network (amongst others).

Nia Statham is a Senior Associate admitted in the BVI, Cayman Islands, and England and Wales. Nia specialises in cross-border digital asset recovery, fraud and asset tracing, with a focus on crypto laundering, DAOs and the Cayman Foundation Company, insolvency and investigations.Nia is experienced in advising on crypto recovery strategies arising from high-value hacks and thefts. She has acted for two petitioning retail investors in the first winding-up of a Cayman-domiciled holding company behind a defunct cryptocurrency exchange and in a synchronised cross-border receivership petition for th...