The legal industry stands on a bedrock of precedents, examples of the past enabling lawyers to predict the future. But what about when it hasn’t been done before? What about when definitions don’t even exist? What makes a disruptive lawyer is their ability to push through the unknown, to call for clarity when there is none and to challenge the industrial status quo. What makes a disruptive lawyer is their ability to push through the unknown, to call for clarity when there is none and to challenge the industrial status quo. This is exactly what global law firm ONTIER has been doing for the last three years, acting for Bitcoin’s inventor Satoshi Nakamoto (Dr Craig Wright), the author of The Bitcoin Whitepaper. Through multi- ple defamation trials to multibillion dollar asset recovery cases and commercial advice, the firm has been lighting the way for litigation in this embryonic and tumultuous sector. A welcomed recent UK breakthrough has been HMRC’s (UK tax) defi- nition of Bitcoin and other related assets. Depending on their use they can be defined as property or security and treated as any oth- er asset. This fact allows for the use of many tools within the litiga- tor’s arsenal including worldwide freezing orders and injunctions. Tools that ONTIER were already well-versed in. And though much of the sector remains unregulated globally, case by case ONTIER are laying down new precedents that will ultimately help to shape the regulatory landscape. However, it doesn’t stop with litigation, the fusion of the firm’s broad sector expertise married with their now established track record in disruptive technologies (digital law), has enabled the 110 FEATURED ARTICLES