Andrew Maguire was a contributor to the Founders Guide to UK Crypto Law 2025, which has been published. Andrew was the author of Chapter 4 of the Guide which is UK Regulation of Financial Promotions of Cryptoassets.
Andrew Maguire is an experienced chancery commercial barrister, who has specialised in banking and financial services disputes for over 25 years, such as succeeding in the all-monies guarantee Court of Appeal case of NMBS v Bellamy [2013] EWCA Civ 452. More recently, his practice has increasingly involved data protection and international crypto and blockchain fraud. He successfully obtained the first summary judgment against a crypto exchange, using a constructive trust between an exchange and investor, which was served by NFT airdrop: see Gary Jones v Persons Unknown/Huobi [2022] EWHC 2543 and the reported case of Mooij v Persons Unknown [2024] EWHC 2342 (Ch); [2025] 1 WLR 821.
