Gregory Banks

Gregory Banks

Gregory Banks

Partner · Cross-Border Asset Tracing

Whitfield & Crane LLP

New York

Biography

Gregory Banks is a Partner in the firm’s Cross-Border Asset Tracing group who joined Whitfield & Crane from an international investigations firm. He focuses on following misappropriated funds through shell companies and nominee accounts. 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.

Gregory is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Duke University, where he served on the law review. He writes and speaks frequently on fraud trends and is a member of the firm’s 24-hour incident-response desk.

Representative Matters

  • Won restitution for 13 investors in a $26 million Ponzi scheme
  • Returned $6 million to victims of a romance-token scam spanning 7 countries
  • Won restitution for 11 investors in a $12 million Ponzi scheme

Education

Harvard Law School
B.A., Duke 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

Recognition

Lawdragon 500 X: The Next Generation