Phil Sherrell, a partner at Bird & Bird, successfully acted in the High Court for the Crypto Open Patent Alliance to prove that Craig Wright, an Australian computer scientist based in Surrey, was not Satoshi Nakamoto, the founder of the cryptocurrency bitcoin.
Phil Sherrell
Wright had been building an incredibly complex back story since 2015 to try to prove that he was Nakamoto, so when we were instructed in 2021, he had a huge head start. It was the investigative and persuasive powers of our team that won us the case — we identified lots of independent individuals from across the world who each enabled us to disprove one small part of Wright’s story. Their courage in coming forward to give evidence was instrumental in
