Hugo Ashby is a Investigative Counsel in the firm’s Cross-Border Asset Tracing group who joined Whitfield & Crane from a major cryptocurrency exchange. He focuses on following misappropriated funds through shell companies and nominee accounts. led complex tracing investigations across borders.

He advises clients across Asia-Pacific and the Middle East 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.

• Coordinated the freeze of crypto assets across 11 exchanges after an exploit
• Traced and froze assets layered through 16 entities in 7 countries in a single matter
Recovered $95 million for victims of a cross-border investment-platform collapse

University of Virginia School of Law
B.A., Columbia University

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

English
Tamil

Recipient of the firm’s Fraud Recovery Award