Gideon Mercer is a Associate in the firm’s Digital Asset & Crypto Fraud group who joined Whitfield & Crane from the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. He focuses on on-chain tracing, exchange hacks and token-scam recovery. helped freeze accounts in over a dozen jurisdictions.

He advises clients across the United States, Europe and Asia and works with the firm’s investigators and forensic accountants to move from first report to first freeze as quickly as the facts allow. He is admitted in New York and regularly coordinates matters with local counsel worldwide.

• Recovered $84 million for victims of a cross-border investment-platform collapse
• Identified and froze extortion payments flowing through mixer services
Recovered $19 million for victims of a cross-border investment-platform collapse

Harvard 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
French

Recipient of the firm’s Fraud Recovery Award