Claire Aldridge

Claire Aldridge

Claire Aldridge

Associate · Investment Fraud Litigation

Whitfield & Crane LLP

New York

Biography

Claire Aldridge is a Associate in the firm’s Investment Fraud Litigation group who has been with the firm since its early years. She focuses on Ponzi schemes, platform collapses and claims against third-party enablers. recovered assets in matters involving dozens of banks and exchanges.

She advises clients across North America and Latin America and works with the firm’s investigators and forensic accountants to move from first report to first freeze as quickly as the facts allow. She is admitted in New York and regularly coordinates matters with local counsel worldwide.

Representative Matters

  • Identified and froze extortion payments flowing through mixer services
  • Recovered $54 million for victims of a cross-border investment-platform collapse
  • Identified and froze extortion payments flowing through mixer services

Education

University of Texas School of Law
B.A., University of California, Berkeley

Bar Admissions

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

Languages

English
Portuguese

Recognition

Recipient of the firm’s Fraud Recovery Award