News and articles

20 January 2020: CYK partner Stephen Elam and associate Andrew Flynn write for Investment Europe on issues surrounding the recent extension of SMCR to all FCA solo regulated firms.  See link here for full article.

20 January 2020: CYK partner Lydia Danon and associates Andrew Flynn and Shelley Drenth write for Accountancy Daily on the difficulties partners may face on being frozen out of a LLP.  See link here for full article (subscription may be...

13 January 2020:  CYK partner Lydia Danon has been announced as a panellist at the IBA’s India Litigation Symposium on 8 February in New Delhi.   Senior Associate Arish Bharucha will also be attending and they both look forward to meeting up with new...

19 December 2019: Season’s greetings from everyone at Cooke, Young & Keidan – see link here for full office opening details.

12 December 2019: CYK managing partner Robert Coffey and senior associate Mike Cumming-Bruce write for the The Times on the trend towards digitalisation of justice in China and the potential pitfalls of the UK following suit. Click here for full...

2 December 2019:  CYK’s Robert Coffey and Peter Stewart write for the Russian Arbitration Association Journal on possible approaches to arbitrating disputes arising out of smart contracts.  Click here for full details – article can be found at page 12.

2 December 2019:  Michael Cumming-Bruce writes for Fintech Magazine on how the UK appears to be moving towards treating cryptoassets as regular, regulated financial assets, from both a regulatory and a legal perspective.  See link here for full article.

2 December 2019:  CYK is delighted to be a luncheon sponsor at the IBA’s India Litigation Symposium on 8 February in New Delhi.  Lydia Danon and Arish Bharucha will be attending and look forward to meeting up with new and old...

21 November 2019: Daniel Burbeary comments for the Law Society Gazette on the process of filing SARs and how statistics indicate that most money laundering SARs are not in fact referred to the police.  See link here for full article...

20 November 2019: CYK partner Sinead O’Callaghan writes for the New Law Journal considering the ramifications of breaching the Companies Act when directors opt to further their own political agenda.  See link here for full article.

19 November 2019: For the second year running, CYK has been included in The Times Best Law Firms, where it is ‘Commended for Commercial Disputes Resolution’. The firm is recognised for its ‘groundbreaking litigation’ on a major case for CMOC,...

24 October 2019: CYK partner Lydia Danon and associate Andrew Flynn write for Private Funds CFO on the key issues involved for GP’s being sued by LPs and how crucial it is to settle disputes early and confidentially.  See link here...

14 October 2019:  Senior associate Rosie Wild has been appointed Co-Vice President of the Litigation Commission of AIJA, the International Association of Young Lawyers.  Fellow senior associate Kajal Patel has become an Officer on the Executive Committee of AIJA.  Rosie will be...

Increased recognition for CYK’s ‘technical skill’ in civil fraud matters  11 October 2019 In its new 2020 edition legal directory Chambers & Partners has ranked CYK among the top law firms in the UK for banking litigation, commercial litigation, and...

7 October 2019: CYK’s managing partner Robert Coffey has been invited to speak in a debate entitled ‘Lawtech – Revolutionising Legal Practice’ in Moscow on 14 November.  The debate forms part of English Law Week in Russia organised by the...

“A raft of highly motivated and experienced litigators operating in a tight-knit, boutique firm”  “An ‘innovative firm that is known for taking on some of the toughest opponents and the hardest cases against the biggest City firms’.”   1 October 2019...

1 October 2019: CYK senior associate Sam Roberts writes on the key legal issues surrounding the regulation of cryptocurrencies.  See link here for full article.

25 September 2019: CYK senior associate Michael Cumming-Bruce writes for Fintech Futures about the prospects of, and legal issues related to, Facebook’s proposed cryptocurrency, Libra. See link here for full article at pages 10 and 11.

25 September 2019:  CYK associate Peter Stewart writes for Accountancy Daily on the risks to companies in paying their employees in cryptocurrency.  See link here for full article (subscription may be required).

24 September 2019: CYK partner Lydia Danon and Senior Associate Rosie Wild write for the International Bar Association Newsletter on issues surrounding pleading fraud.  See link here for full article.   (This article first appeared in the September 2019 issue of...

13 September 2019: CYK was pleased to be represented at the recent MCIA conference in Mumbai by Arish Bharucha and Shamilee Arora. The conference opened with keynote speeches by Mrs Justice Indu Malhotra (a judge of the Supreme Court of...

4 September 2019: Senior Associate Sam Roberts writes for Fintech Magazine on recovering stolen cryptocurrencies.  See link here for full article.

30 August 2019: CYK Senior Associate Sam Roberts comments for Law360 on key ruling as UK moves toward treating Bitcoin as property.  See link here for full article (subscription may be required).

29 August 2019: CYK Senior Associate Michael Cumming-Bruce comments for CDR on the challenges faced by the SFO following the recent report released concerning the management of the SFO.  See link here for full article (subscription may be required).

29 August 2019: CYK Senior Associate Sam Roberts writes on issues surrounding cyber security and the vulnerabilities of cryptocurrencies to fraudsters.  See link here for full article (subscription may be required).

14 August 2019: CYK senior associates Michael Cumming-Bruce and Matthew Gale write for Economia on the direction of the SFO in light of the recent Leadership Review Report.  See link here for full article.

25 July 2019: Stephen Elam comments for Funds Europe on the risks for investment brokers arising out of the recent Woodford debacle.  See link here for full article.

This edition includes our views on the future for boutique law firms, how unexplained wealth orders are being used to tackle money laundering in the London property market, and...

CYK client awarded indemnity costs in partnership dispute

5 July 2019: Peter Stewart writes for Economia on the potential legal and regulatory challenges facing Libra.  Click here for full article.

5 July 2019: The National Crime Agency (NCA) has just obtained another round of unexplained wealth orders (UWOs) to investigate multi-million-pound properties in London. But what are they, and how are they being used?   Philip Young and Shamilee Arora recently...

4 July 2019: Lydia Danon was delighted to be invited to speak for a second year running at the MoloLamken litigation summit in London. Her panel, “Law firm efficiency and case management”, covered topical issues such as lawyer wellness, allocation of...

28 June 2016: CYK associate Peter Stewart has been quoted in Law360 on potential regulatory and security issues relating to Libra, Facebook’s new cryptocurrency.  Click here for full article. (Subscription may be required)

28 June 2019: Cooke Young & Keidan was very pleased to help spearhead, sponsor and participate in the inaugural India Disputes conference in London this week, organised by Knect365. The conference was extremely well attended by lawyers, other professionals and...

20 June 2019: CYK partner Stephen Elam has been quoted in an article published by Law360 on the FCA’s oversight into the Woodford fund suspension.  See link for full article.

20 June 2019: CYK Partners Robert Coffey and Sinead O’Callaghan consider, in an article for Legal 500 magazine, what is next for litigation boutiques. See link for full article.

20 June 2019: Daniel Burbeary comments in the New Law Journal after a multi-million-pound fraud trial collapsed.  See link for full article

19 June 2019: Senior Associate Sam Roberts reports on the French Government’s decision to ban statistical analysis of French judges’ reported decisions.  See link here for full article (subscription may be required)

19 June 2019: CYK lawyers Sam Roberts, Rosie Wild and Jake Calvert look at recent developments in freezing orders for PLC magazine.  See link here for full article (subscription may be required).

29 May 2019: CYK Associate Shamilee Arora comments on the National Crime Agency’s decision to secure three Unexplained Wealth Orders (UWOs) relating to London properties worth £80 million.  See link here for full article.

28 May 2019: CYK partner Stephen Elam speaks to Law360 about the issues surrounding the FCA’s little-used Settlement Process.  Click on link here for full article (subscription required).

29 May 2019: Rosie Wild and Kajal Patel recently attended the Half-Year International Association of Young Lawyers’ conference in Hong Kong, organised by AIJA.  The conference was attended by over 200 international lawyers and dealt with topical issues including the latest on...

14 May 2019: We are delighted to have been shortlisted as ‘Litigation Team of the Year’ by The Lawyer Awards alongside a number of other leading law firms.   The Lawyer Awards are celebrating their 25th anniversary and are described as ‘The...

9 May 2019: CYK Managing Partner Robert Coffey has been recently quoted by the Times on the increased use of London courts for international litigation and arbitration.  See link here for full article.

8 May 2019: Peter Stewart has recently spoken to the Brief about some of the legal issues surrounding the alleged off-field criminal behaviour of Australia’s National Rugby League players. See link here for full article.

8 May 2019: CYK Managing Partner, Robert Coffey, speaks to the Law Society Gazette about issues surrounding Russian litigants and how they “loom large” in a record year for London Courts.  See link here for full article.

Robert Coffey and Dan Burbeary share their views on the future for arbitration in London.

We are delighted to be a principal Gold sponsor of a major new two-day ‘India Disputes’ conference which is taking place at The Bloomsbury in London on 26 and 27 June 2019, organised by Knect365.  The event invites delegates to...

24 April 2019: CYK partner Daniel Burbeary has recently written an article for Financial Director on the SFO’s anticipated guidance to clarify its rules on self-reporting of fraud and corruption offences.  See link here for full article.

17 April 2019: Peter Stewart of CYK’s Sports Dispute Practice Group has been quoted on the front page of the Sunday Sports edition of the Telegraph on the huge compensation risks involved if concussion injuries are not taken seriously.  Click...

9 April 2019: CYK partner Daniel Burbeary and Ben Pilling QC look at issues arising from the Eastern European Engineering Limited v Vijay Construction (Proprietary) Limited case. Please click here for full article.

CYK ‘Highly Commended’ as boutique law firm of the year at the Legal Business Awards 2019

2 April 2019: CYK partner Daniel Burbeary is quoted in ALB on the recent brewery investment in Mozambique and how “those who seek to do business in the region still face significant compliance challenges” – click here for full article.

28 March 2019: CYK Partner Daniel Burbeary comments on the opening of a new Mozambique brewery and tells ALB that  it is “a vote of confidence by a multinational corporation in a country that has been hit by a series of...

CYK reviews recent developments for the New Law Journal

CYK sports disputes lawyer comments on a possible move by top rugby coach Shaun Edwards

19 March 2019: Senior associate Sam Roberts recently spoke at the  Legal Week Trusts and Estates Litigation Forum in Girona, Spain on ‘Game Theory and Psychology in Trust Litigation’, alongside Jessica Henson, a senior associate at BCLP.  Their talk covered...

5 March 2019: The Barrister magazine has published an article written by Senior Associate Liam McNeely and Associate Jake Calvert considering whether assets of state-owned enterprises are immune from the enforcement of arbitral awards.  Please click here for full article

CYK is moving to new offices at 21 Lombard Street from 11 March

28 February 2019: We are delighted to announce that Hannah Carroll and Michael Cumming-Bruce have been promoted to the role of Senior Associate and Simon Robinson to Senior Paralegal.  We are proud to have them on our team.

28 February 2019: The Law Society Gazette has published an article by CYK Partner Daniel Burbeary which outlines the importance and value of witness statements in commercial arbitrations.  Click here for full article (subscription may be required).

12 February 2019: CYK partner Marc Keidan is quoted in an article published recently in the Law Society Gazette on “How to give a client bad news”. Please click on this link to see the full article (subscription may be required).

8 February 2019: Robert Coffey joined a panel chaired by Jeremy Cousins QC of Radcliffe Chambers at the Legal Business Financial Services Regulation and Disputes Conference on 7 February.  The session subject was complex dispute resolution strategy, and the panel considered which strategies may best be...

4 February 2019: CYK associates Arish Bharucha and Michael Cumming-Bruce write for African Law & Business exploring the issues that arise when attempting to enforce arbitral awards in England and Wales against sovereign African states.  Please click here for full...

31 January 2019: The Law Society Gazette has published an article by CYK Partner Lydia Danon on “claims of a false and misleading case” surrounding CYK’s recent success for its client GPP in its claim against RBS. Please click here for...

Welcome to the first 2019 edition of FYI, Cooke, Young & Keidan’s newletter.  Below, you'll find a quarterly round-up of cases that have caught our attention, plus selected news from the world of commercial litigation and arbitration, and some short updates about CYK, including news of our office move. 

14 January 2019: CYK had recent success for its client GPP whilst acting against RBS in a dispute arising out of the now notorious lending practices of RBS in the run-up to the global financial crisis of 2008. RBS had...

Robert Coffey writes for Africa Global Funds on the likely impact of new legislation in Tanzania on international arbitration

An in-depth analysis of a recent CYK freezing injunction case

Hannah Carroll looks at arbitration in workplace disputes

The Global Arbitration Review reports on a recent CYK case

Sam Roberts and Rosie Wild look at legal and technology innovation for the Law Society Gazette

Sam Roberts speaks on post-judgment asset-tracing and enforcement

CYK’s Arish Bharucha, recently took part in an expert panel session at the African Law and Business Summit 2018.

Chambers & Partners: CYK is "a litigation boutique with a solid reputation in the market for its capacity to handle large-scale, complex disputes against banks and major corporates"

Firm described as “A well-established powerhouse boutique” and “Innovative, super-efficient, devastatingly effective and technically excellent”

CYK have been included in The Times Top 200 Law Firms, noted for our “conflict-free alternative to full-service City law firms on complex and high-value litigation” and commended in the category of commercial dispute resolution.

Reuters Risk & Compliance has published an article written by CYK Partner Stephen Elam on whether behaviour has improved one year after the launch of the FX Global Code of Conduct. 

Welcome to the first edition of FYI: Cooke, Young & Keidan’s newletter. Our aim is to give you a quarterly round-up of cases that have caught our attention, plus selected news from the world of commercial litigation and arbitration, and some short updates about CYK.

16 Oct 2018: Stephen Elam and Sam Roberts to speak at the KNect365 Financial Institutions Litigation conference on Forex manipulation and banking payment fraud

This article examines the effect of the recent judgment of the High Court of England and Wales in which it determined that, in principle, it had jurisdiction to make a worldwide freezing order over an award debtor’s assets

A look at the parallel legal and technology aspects of a ground-breaking fraud case

An update on CYK's recent presentation to a group of Russian, Ukrainian and Kazakh lawyers at the Law Society

An update on the Law Commission’s consultation and early conclusions

05 October 2018: Philip Young comments in today’s edition of The Times

‘Third Party Debt Orders: Clarifying the Location of a Debt’

Coverage of our success in a ground-breaking online fraud case

20 Sept 2018: Press release on ground-breaking judgment in online fraud case

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...

Conference report - globalisation and its impact

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...

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...

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...

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...