Krupa has experience in a variety of complex cross-border commercial disputes and arbitration proceedings across a wide range of industry sectors including banking and energy, and has a particular interest in digital assets.
Krupa read European and German Law at the University of Warwick. As part of her degree, she spent a year reading German law at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. Krupa joined Enyo Law in February 2016 and has worked on a number of complex and lengthy trials and arbitration hearings. She concurrently completed the LPC with a Distinction and her training contract at Enyo Law and qualified in 2020.
- Unwired Planet in the leading case on the manner in which patents essential to the 4G standard should be licensed in accordance with a patent holder’s FRAND obligations.
Unwired Planet International Ltd -v- Huawei Technologies Co Ltd & Ors [2017] EWHC 711 (Pat)
- Three syndicate lenders involved in the long-running “tuna bonds” litigation, concerning three contested loans made to State Owned Entities in excess of US$2 billion, being challenged by the Republic of Mozambique on the basis they were procured by bribery and corruption.
The Republic of Mozambique -v- Credit Suisse International & Ors [2022] EWHC 157 (Comm), [2022] EWHC 429 (Comm), [2022] EWHC 3054 (Comm), [2023] EWHC 91 (Comm), [2023] EWHC 514 (Comm), [2023] EWHC 1148 (Comm), [2023] EWHC 1650 (Comm), [2023] EWHC 2215 (Comm), [2024] EWHC 1957 (Comm)
- A Swiss financial services executive in his defence of fraudulent misrepresentation and unlawful means conspiracy claims in excess of US$50 million claim arising from investment losses caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
GI Globinvestment Ltd & Ors v Faleschini & Ors [2024] EWHC 481 (Comm)
- An NFT auction platform owned by well-known cryptocurrency entrepreneurs, the Winklevoss twins, in a novel dispute on the intersection between auction platform’s standard terms and the mandatory consumer protection laws in force in the UK (and elsewhere).
Amir Soleymani v Nifty Gateway LLC [2024] EWHC 168 (Comm)
- Software developers responsible for maintaining the Bitcoin client software in response to claims brought by Tulip Trading alleging that the developers “control” Bitcoin and therefore owe owners of Bitcoin a fiduciary duty to amend the Bitcoin protocol to allow it to obtain access to $4bn of allegedly stolen Bitcoin. Tulip Trading Limited (A Seychelles Company) v Bitcoin Association For BSV & Ors [2023] EWCA Civ 83; [2023] EWHC 2437 (Ch); [2024] EWHC 1809 (Ch).
- Chaincode Labs, a Bitcoin research and development organisation, in response to claims by an Australian technology entrepreneur, Craig Wright, who (fraudulently) claimed to be Satoshi Nakamoto (the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin. Crypto Open Patent Alliance v Wright (Rev1) [2024] EWHC 1809 (Ch); [2024] EWHC 1198 (Ch)
- A cryptocurrency exchange in response to fraudulent dealings on its platform and the recovery of those assets
- Mr Moynul Islam, an entrepreneur, in response to fraudulent misrepresentation and unlawful means conspiracy claims brought by a group of 400-plus investors in relation to the fraudulent cryptocurrency OneCoin scheme
- A port developer in an ICC arbitration in its US$2 billion claim relating to the construction of a commodities transhipment terminal in Southern Russia, and advising in connection with related proceedings in the Dutch Enterprise Chamber.
- Two founding shareholders of a London hotel group in an expedited LCIA arbitration.
- Ascent Resources plc and Ascent Slovenia Ltd in a US$656 million ICSID arbitration relation to their ECT claim against Slovenia in relation to Slovenia’s ban on low volume hydraulic stimulation in the production of hydrocarbons.
Testimonials
Chambers and Partners 2024
"Krupa Vekaria has exceptional case management and detail. She really gets involved in substantive cases, not just in legal issues. Detailed thinking has to be done around those. She operates at a level beyond her seniority."
Legal 500 2025
“A superb associate: incredibly hard-working and a strong technical lawyer.”
“Standout associate…relentless energy and highly intelligent.”