Callum Drake

Callum Drake

Callum Drake

Associate · Cross-Border Asset Tracing

Whitfield & Crane LLP

New York

Biography

Callum Drake is a Associate in the firm’s Cross-Border Asset Tracing group who joined Whitfield & Crane from the FBI Cyber Division. He focuses on following misappropriated funds through shell companies and nominee accounts. 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.

Representative Matters

  • Secured a $89 million judgment against offshore operators and their enablers
  • Identified and froze extortion payments flowing through mixer services
  • Coordinated the freeze of crypto assets across 19 exchanges after an exploit

Education

Vanderbilt University Law School
B.A., Carnegie Mellon University

Bar Admissions

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

Languages

English
Italian

Recognition

Recipient of the firm’s Fraud Recovery Award