Client reviews — page 16 of 24

“I had already got my eye on an old Ford, because with Silbern Digital bankrupt a new car was off the table. Then the lads at the firm explained that bitcoins held separately do not fall into the estate: you claim them as segregated assets inside the insolvency proceedings. That is exactly how it went, the whole nearly 32 thousand euros pulled out of the ring-fenced fund. Thank you truly, the Ford stays where it is.”

“The first transfer landed when I had stopped waiting for it. My account at Halberd Funded was frozen after the lawsuit by the US regulator, the CFTC, and I had $18,500 in earnings sitting there. Prop firms are a legal grey area, so nobody could tell me whether that money still existed at all. The lawyers slotted the claim into the payout-restoration procedure run by the interim administrator, and that is where the instalments started, spread over more than six months. I take off one star for the paperwork: ID documents, statements from my bank in Tirana, and then the same documents all over again.”

“Three months collecting statements on Verano Advisory, receipts, screenshots of the chats. In the end the opinion was that the company sits in the Marshall Islands and that an Italian judgment would recover nothing of my twenty thousand euros there. Probably true. But that was visible on day one, from the same page of their site I copied it from myself.”

Reply from the firm

Federica Volpi

Partner · Litigation against brokers

You were right to write it. The registered office was in the initial documents, and the jurisdiction check should have come before we asked you for three months of collecting. It is now the first thing we check, and if that is the answer we say so at the first meeting, free of charge.

“It was through Nobel Trade. They kept saying invest more, more. Then a criminal case, confiscated property, and a part came from that. They helped me get through the paperwork. Just one thing: nearly seven days of silence after I sent in the copies of my passport.”

“court froze the accounts on the exchange, the lawyers pulled out my 80k. took longer than i thought but they got it all back. decent”

“0.9 bitcoin left my wallet while I was asleep, and for days all I did was stare at the screen with no idea who to turn to. A workmate who had been through the same thing sent me here. They identified the exchange the hacker had moved the sum to and got a court to freeze part of what was held there. Around €21,815 worth was recovered; the rest had already been pushed on further and the trail ends there. I know it could have finished at zero, so five stars without hesitating. After the fee and the costs, what came back is less than what went out: I write it because nobody writes it. The house renovation is put off, not cancelled.”

Reply from the firm

Chiara Olivieri

Partner · Crypto-assets and digital evidence

You wrote the thing people usually leave out, and you were right to. In partial recoveries the final arithmetic can stay negative even when the case goes well: that is why the odds were given to you before the engagement, not after.

“Bravelo blocked my withdrawal of 11,430 euros. I was already ready to fly to Cyprus in person. Your lawyers pried the money loose through CySEC in 3 weeks. Honestly, I’m stunned, I thought it would be worse. Thank you, you saved my holiday.”

“The firm Carrara met my expectations after I thoroughly vetted their litigation track record over three weeks. In the insolvency case of the BitVelo exchange, they were able to prove that my assets were held in segregated accounts, which allowed them to be pulled out of the general insolvency estate. The repayment came to a full 42,698 euros. The documents were drawn up impeccably, though the communication from the case managers could have been more prompt.”

“i'm not the type who gives everyone five stars. i just had no strength left. with Nordexa Lending it dragged on for ages, then the class action in london ended in a settlement. i got back practically everything that had been frozen. my granddaughter kept telling me not to read the comments online, and i read them ... for nothing.”