Irving Colton is a Investigative Counsel in the firm’s Business Email Compromise & Wire Fraud group who joined Whitfield & Crane from the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. He focuses on 48-hour wire recalls, freezes and banking liability claims. built the intelligence behind judgments and injunctions across three continents.

He advises clients across Europe and the Gulf region 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.

• Froze a fraudster’s $34 million real-estate portfolio within weeks of engagement
• Recovered a $90 million vendor-impersonation wire within 66 hours of the loss
Secured a $78 million judgment against offshore operators and their enablers

University of California, Berkeley School of Law
B.A., Tufts University

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

English
Cantonese

Recipient of the firm’s Fraud Recovery Award