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SUCCESS IN GROUND-BREAKING CASE FOR CHINA MOLYBDENUM CO., LTD. (CMOC) • Claims upheld against online financial fraudsters following England’s first reported worldwide freezing injunction over assets of “Persons Unknown” • Disclosure orders enforceable worldwide, on terms • Service of Court process by 21st...

12 September 2018:  The Barrister magazine has published an article written by CYK associates Matthew Gale and Elizabeth Meade regarding the decision of the US Eleventh Circuit Court to overturn a lower court ruling and upholding the parties’ original agreement...

Peter Stewart, CYK associate and employed barrister, has been quoted in the Global Arbitration Review on a US appeal court decision that a row over the chartering of a vessel from Brazil to Mexico belongs in arbitration...

CYK partner Daniel Burbeary has been quoted in a Law360 article regarding one of the ‘Four Biggest UK Finance & Insurance Decisions of 2018 so far’. Daniel’s comments address the implications of the UK Supreme Court case of JSC BTA...

CYK partner Lydia Danon is delighted to be speaking at CDR’s Autumn Litigation Symposium on 20 September 2018. This year’s theme is based on the “business that the courts hear daily” and Lydia will be speaking on “The year in...

Cooke, Young & Keidan associate Kajal Patel has been invited to speak at the 56th International Young Lawyers’ Congress on 29 August in Brussels being organised by AIJA.  Rosie Wild who has spoken at previous events will also be present. The session...

09 August 2018: Peter Stewart, CYK associate and employed barrister, has been quoted on the importance of clarity in drafting commercial contracts in the Law Society Gazette.  The article relates to a US Federal Appeals Court ruling that an arbitration...

July 2018: CYK has acted for the defendants in an exceptional case concerning the legal existence of a Limited Liability Partnership (LLP).  The High Court has ruled that it has the power to reverse the administrative restoration of an LLP...

31 July 2018: Cooke, Young & Keidan LLP has successfully discharged an interim third party debt order that had been obtained against its client as part of proceedings seeking to enforce a substantial arbitral award in England & Wales. The...

CYK associate Kajal Patel recently attended the International Young Lawyers’ Congress (AIJA) in Warsaw, where the themes were current trends in corporate governance and the development of relationships between lawyers and...

16 July 2018: A team from CYK comprising Daniel Burbeary, Irina Buydova, Matthew Gale and Marc Keidan recently held a workshop for a visiting delegation of Russian, Ukrainian and Kazakh lawyers organised by the Strasbourg-headquartered European Centre for Legal Cooperation...

In this article, originally published in the newsletter of the Young Fraud Lawyers Association, Rosie Wild and Thomas Burton Wills explain a novel approach to serving a freezing injunction by data room. CMOC v Persons Unknown [2017] EWHC 3599 (Comm):...

CYK secures UK freezing order and opens door to worldwide freezing relief in support of foreign arbitral awards...

Sinead O'Callaghan writes in this year's Disputes Yearbook published by Legal Business magazine on how to fight fraud in the age of the internet and social media.

This summit will cover a wide range of hot topics and emerging issues in UK/US cross-border litigation, and Lydia Danon from CYK will be speaking on ‘Social Media in Litigation’. 

CYK is delighted to be sponsoring the Association of Partnership Practitioners’ (APP) Up and Coming event on 19 June 2018 at the Shoreditch darts venue, the Flight Club  (18.30 to 21.30). CYK has a growing partnership practice acting in high...

Managing partner Robert Coffey and partner Daniel Burbeary attended the inaugural Knect365 Law/IBC legal conference on Asset Recovery, Fraud Litigation, Enforcement & Contentious Insolvency in Dublin recently...

CYK associate Rosie Wild recently travelled to Recife in Brazil to attend the AIJA litigation and civil fraud congress that had gathered to discuss “The Challenges Of Compliance And Anti Corruption“...

On 30th January 2018, Cooke, Young & Keidan LLP hosted a civil fraud seminar at the Institute of Directors...

CYK partner Lydia Danon recently spoke at the Knect Funds Disputes and Partnership Law Forum, which brought together...

Leading dispute resolution boutique Cooke, Young & Keidan LLP (CYK), has announced that senior associates Daniel Burbeary and Lydia Danon have been promoted to...

A London subsidiary of an international mining company has obtained what it claims to be the first worldwide freezing order over the assets of...

Freezing injunction first - What is believed to be England’s first worldwide freezing injunction over the assets of ‘Persons Unknown’ who are...

CYK has obtained a worldwide freezing injunction over the assets of “Persons Unknown” who are accused of committing large-scale, international financial fraud via...

Leading dispute resolution boutique Cooke, Young & Keidan (CYK), has promoted Daniel Burbeary and Lydia Danon to the partnership. This announcement...

Cooke, Young & Keidan LLP (CYK), are pleased to announce senior associates Daniel Burbeary and Lydia Danon have been promoted to the partnership...

Robert Coffey has been appointed as new managing partner following Gerald Cooke's retirement...