Harrison Cole

Harrison Cole

Harrison Cole

Partner · Digital Asset & Crypto Fraud

Whitfield & Crane LLP

Singapore

Biography

Harrison Cole is a Partner in the firm’s Digital Asset & Crypto Fraud group who joined Whitfield & Crane from the FBI Cyber Division. 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.

Harrison is a graduate of New York University School of Law and Columbia 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

  • Coordinated the freeze of crypto assets across 9 exchanges after an exploit
  • Returned $85 million to victims of a romance-token scam spanning 7 countries
  • Froze a fraudster’s $39 million real-estate portfolio within weeks of engagement

Education

New York University School of Law
B.A., Columbia 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
Tamil

Recognition

Lawdragon 500 X: The Next Generation