The following session took place during the 2025 International European Insolvency Symposium in October 2025. This session will explore the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and digital-asset recovery in cross-border bankruptcy proceedings. The panelists will examine the challenges in making recoveries when digital-asset businesses are the subject of fraud or hacking activity, and discuss how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing asset-tracing, evidence-gathering and recovery processes. They also will cover the practical challenges insolvency professionals face when appointed over businesses in this sector, especially when there is a parallel criminal investigation and/or prosecution, and ways in which practitioners can navigate that landscape to achieve the best outcomes for stakeholders by drawing on real-life examples of cases in which the panelists have been involved. All sessions from this conference can be accessed at https://cle.abi.org/.

Materials are available here.

Speakers:

Rebecca Hume, Moderator
Howard Kennedy LLP | London, United Kingdom
Dennis C. O'Donnell
DLA Piper | New York, N.Y.
Sean A. O'Neal
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP | New York, N.Y.
Paul Pretlove
Interpath | London, United Kingdom
Franz A. Wenzel
enomyc North America, Inc. | Anderson, SC