Eleanor Whitfield founded the firm in 2009 after twelve years as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York, where she prosecuted some of the era’s largest wire-fraud and identity-theft syndicates. Her philosophy has not changed since her first trial: move fast, document everything, and never let a scammer believe distance protects them.

She has led recoveries in more than 60 countries and argued fraud and asset-freezing matters before federal courts, the Second Circuit, and arbitration tribunals in London, Singapore and Hong Kong. Eleanor chairs the firm’s Global Fraud Litigation practice and personally reviews every intake that walks through the door.

Eleanor lectures widely on cross-border asset recovery and has testified before Congress on international wire-fraud enforcement. She is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and a former chair of the New York City Bar’s White Collar Crime Committee.

• Fraud Litigation & Recovery
• Asset Tracing & Recovery

• Recovered a retired teacher’s $470,000 life savings wired to an offshore fraud ring — the case that founded the firm
• Secured freezing orders against 40+ exchange and bank accounts in a single 72-hour response
• Led the recovery of $90 million for victims of a cross-border investment-platform collapse

J.D., Yale Law School, cum laude
B.A., Stanford University, Phi Beta Kappa

New York
U.S. District Courts (S.D.N.Y., E.D.N.Y.)
U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
U.S. Supreme Court

English

Chambers USA: Band 1, White Collar & Government Investigations (2024–2026)
The Legal 500 U.S.: Leading Lawyer, Corporate Crime
Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America (2019–2026)