Daphne Ellery is a Associate in the firm’s Payment Fraud & Banking Liability group who joined Whitfield & Crane from a Big Four forensic practice. She focuses on payment fraud, card scheme abuse and processor liability. recovered funds in matters spanning five continents.

She advises clients across the United States and Canada 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.

• Recovered a $17 million vendor-impersonation wire within 36 hours of the loss
• Coordinated the freeze of crypto assets across 21 exchanges after an exploit
Returned $84 million to victims of a romance-token scam spanning 7 countries

Yale Law School
B.A., University of Michigan

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

English
Hindi

Recipient of the firm’s Fraud Recovery Award