Georgina Prescott

Georgina Prescott

Georgina Prescott

Associate · Cybercrime & Ransomware Response

Whitfield & Crane LLP

New York

Biography

Georgina Prescott is a Associate in the firm’s Cybercrime & Ransomware Response group who has been with the firm since its early years. She focuses on extortion response, breach triage and litigation against threat actors. 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

  • Returned $36 million to victims of a romance-token scam spanning 9 countries
  • Secured a $82 million judgment against offshore operators and their enablers
  • Identified and froze extortion payments flowing through mixer services

Education

University of Texas School of Law
B.A., Northwestern 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
Cantonese

Recognition

Recipient of the firm’s Fraud Recovery Award