Asset Reality Collaborates with law firm Lawrence Stephens to Support Digital Asset Recovery in Complex Fraud and Legal Matters

London – 17 April 2026 – Lawrence Stephens, a London-based commercial law firm with a leading blockchain and digital assets practice, today announced a strategic collaboration with Asset Reality, the platform for the end-to-end management of seized and recovered assets. Under this arrangement, Asset Reality will provide Lawrence Stephens's legal practitioners with infrastructure for the secure custody, conversion, and disposal of digital assets encountered during legal and investigative engagements.

Digital assets are now regularly encountered in legal, fraud, and enforcement matters; from crypto fraud investigations and exchange disputes to complex asset tracing and cross-border recovery proceedings. Without dedicated infrastructure, legal practitioners face significant operational and regulatory risk: digital assets can be lost, misappropriated, or rapidly devalued if not handled correctly from the moment they are identified. By  Asset Reality, Lawrence Stephens gains immediate access to government-grade custody infrastructure, standardised workflows, and an audit trail designed to meet the requirements of courts and regulators.

The collaboration builds on real-world recovery experience, including a recent case involving the tracing and recovery of stolen Bitcoin and Ethereum assets that had been converted into Monero, a privacy cryptocurrency designed to resist tracing. Working alongside blockchain intelligence specialists and law enforcement, Lawrence Stephens successfully secured court orders to freeze and ultimately recover the assets, with Asset Reality providing the infrastructure and specialist technical expertise for the custody and realisation of value of Monero – a capability that non-specialist providers, like exchanges and traditional custodians, simply cannot provide to the asset recovery sector. The successful outcome underscores the value of purpose-built infrastructure in high-stakes legal proceedings.

Through the Asset Reality Platform, Lawrence Stephens will benefit from: secure digital asset custody from point of seizure or appointment; conversion and fiat repatriation workflows; a full audit trail for court reporting; and access to Asset Reality's specialist operations team for complex or novel asset types.

“Digital assets are increasingly central to the most complex fraud and recovery cases we advise on, yet the infrastructure to handle them safely, from secure custody through to court-compliant conversion and disposal, has historically been absent. Asset Reality fills that gap brilliantly. Their platform and specialist team brought exactly the technical expertise and operational rigour that our clients’ most demanding cases require, and the results speak for themselves. This gives us the infrastructure to deliver exceptional outcomes wherever digital assets are involved.”

Matt Green, Partner, Head of Blockchain and Digital Assets and Technology Disputes, Lawrence Stephens

“Law firms advising on digital asset fraud and recovery are now on the front line of some of the most technically demanding matters in the legal sector, often with no litigation-grade infrastructure behind them. Lawrence Stephens recognised early that specialist infrastructure, not improvised solutions, is what delivers results for clients and stands up in court. We’re proud to support them with infrastructure that turns what is often a chaotic, high-risk process into something controlled, compliant, and auditable.”

Dani Haston, Chief Revenue Officer, Asset Reality

About Asset Reality

Asset Reality provides the infrastructure needed to manage seized and operational assets end-to-end. Our Platform combines a global system of record with government-grade digital asset custody infrastructure, replacing fragmented legacy workflows across physical and digital asset lifecycles. Already trusted by agencies and regulated practitioners worldwide to handle more than 1,500 seizures and $1 billion in seized asset transactions, our Platform supports complex, high-sensitivity, cross-jurisdictional workflows with strict security, auditability, and compliance. By standardising processes from seizure to disposal and sourcing to deployment, Asset Reality is the modern infrastructure layer underpinning asset recovery and criminal disruption, improving outcomes for victims and governments.

Learn more at www.assetreality.com

About Lawrence Stephens

Lawrence Stephens is a London-based, full-service law firm providing proactive expert legal advice to ambitious businesses and individuals. The firm’s Blockchain and Digital Assets practice, led by Partner Matt Green, advises on complex and multi‑jurisdictional disputes involving blockchain technology and digital assets. This includes crypto asset recovery for individuals and businesses following a hack, scam or misappropriation, including matters where wrongdoers are unknown or outside the jurisdiction, as well as contractual disputes with digital assets at their core.

Learn more at www.lawrencestephens.com

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