Fang Zhang

Fang Zhang

Fang Zhang

Investigative Counsel · Payment Fraud & Banking Liability

Whitfield & Crane LLP

New York

Biography

Fang Zhang is a Investigative Counsel in the firm’s Payment Fraud & Banking Liability group who joined Whitfield & Crane from the U.S. Department of Justice. She focuses on payment fraud, card scheme abuse and processor liability. secured freezing orders in some of the fastest response times on record.

She advises clients across North America and Europe 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
  • Won restitution for 17 investors in a $45 million Ponzi scheme
  • Traced and froze assets layered through 22 entities in 7 countries in a single matter

Education

Boston College Law School
B.A., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Bar Admissions

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

Languages

English
Russian

Recognition

Recipient of the firm’s Fraud Recovery Award