Enterprise Chambers

“Celso is a sought-after commercial barrister with particular expertise on emerging technology disputes relating to cryptoassets recovery, cyber risks, information technology, insurance, breach response and IT projects’ contractual disputes.

Celso regularly appears before the High Court to obtain interim injunctions in ransomware, cryptocurrency fraud and data theft cases involving fraudsters, hackers, cryptocurrency exchanges, banks and e-money institutions, including non-publication, search and freezing injunctions, third party disclosure, Norwich Pharmacal and Bankers Trust orders. His recent cryptocurrency cases include the leading authorities in this area of the law, as follows: D’Aloia v Persons Unknown & Ors [2024], Boonyaem v Persons Unknown Category (A) & Ors [2023], Mannarino v Persons Unknown & Ors [2023] and Scenna v Persons Unknown & Ors [2023].

Celso is also recognised as a leading re/insurance barrister, having previously worked for over 20 years as a re/insurance and commercial litigation solicitor and partner in UK and US law firms in the City of London, where he gained extensive experience in complex multi-jurisdictional arbitrations and court proceedings worldwide. He is the 2023 BILA prize-winner of the leading practitioner textbook ‘Cyber Risks Insurance, 2nd Ed, Sweet & Maxwell’. Celso is qualified as a New York Attorney, and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and Certified Crypto Researcher and Investigator (Crystal Intelligence).”

The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple

New York State Bar - Attorney, New York (2002)

Chartered Institute of Arbitrators – Fellow (FCIArb)

The Insurance and Reinsurance Arbitration Society, ARIAS (UK) - Panel Member

FedArb (US) - Arbitrator and Mediator Panellist

Certified Crypto Researcher and Investigator (Crystal Intelligence)

London Business Interruption Association (Past President)

Cyber Insurance Association (Founding Member)

British Insurance Law Association

Chartered Insurance Institute

Insurance Institute of London

Society of Claims Professionals

Society for Computers and Law

Chancery Bar Association - ChBA

The Technology and Construction Bar Association - TECBAR

Financial Services Lawyers Association – FSLA

Portuguese

King’s College London: Master of Laws (1997)

Inns of Court School of Law: Bar Vocational Course (1996)

King’s College London: Bachelor of Laws (Honours) (1995)