Adrian Wells is a Counsel in the firm’s Digital Asset & Crypto Fraud group who joined Whitfield & Crane from the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. He focuses on on-chain tracing, exchange hacks and token-scam recovery. helped freeze accounts in over a dozen jurisdictions.

He advises clients across the United States, Europe and Asia and works with the firm’s investigators and forensic accountants to move from first report to first freeze as quickly as the facts allow. He is admitted in New York and regularly coordinates matters with local counsel worldwide.

Adrian is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center and Princeton University, where he served on the law review. He writes and speaks frequently on fraud trends and is a member of the firm’s 24-hour incident-response desk.

• Secured a $16 million judgment against offshore operators and their enablers
• Recovered a $71 million vendor-impersonation wire within 61 hours of the loss
Won restitution for 11 investors in a $68 million Ponzi scheme

Georgetown University Law Center
B.A., Princeton University

New York
U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York

English
Korean

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