Julian Reeve is a Partner at OBOLUS and leads the firm's flagship Disputes & Asset Recovery practice. He acts for exchanges, funds, custodians and founders in cross-border crypto disputes — running freezing-order strategy, on-chain tracing and stablecoin-freeze coordination where the recovery window is measured in hours, not days.
Focus
Julian's work centres on the contentious side of digital assets: worldwide freezing orders, proprietary and tracing claims, disclosure orders against intermediaries, and enforcement across jurisdictions. He coordinates legal applications with blockchain forensics and issuer-level freezes so that the operational and the court tracks move in parallel from day one.
He signs the firm's Disputes & Asset Recovery pillar and selected practitioner breakdowns, choosing the recovery forum to fit the facts rather than defaulting to one — whether that is England & Wales, the DIFC Courts, Hong Kong or Singapore.
Selected focus areas
- Worldwide and proprietary freezing orders, including against persons unknown
- On-chain tracing and forensic coordination with established providers
- Stablecoin-freeze and exchange-level asset preservation
- Norwich Pharmacal and Bankers Trust disclosure against intermediaries
- Cross-border enforcement and insolvency-led recovery
Approach
Quiet, specific and candid. Julian sets out whether recovery is viable, the route he would take and the cost — and says plainly when a claim is not worth running. He selects the forum to fit the facts, coordinates the legal and operational tracks from day one, and keeps the client's commercial objective, not the litigation, at the centre. No guarantees, no outcome promises, and no retail scam-recovery: OBOLUS acts for businesses, funds, exchanges and founders.