Lan Chen is a Investigative Counsel in the firm’s Investment Fraud Litigation group who joined Whitfield & Crane from a Fortune 100 corporate investigations team. She focuses on Ponzi schemes, platform collapses and claims against third-party enablers. recovered funds in matters spanning five continents.

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

• Recovered a $90 million vendor-impersonation wire within 62 hours of the loss
• Secured a $37 million judgment against offshore operators and their enablers
Recovered a $8 million vendor-impersonation wire within 40 hours of the loss

Duke University School of Law
B.A., Barnard College

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

English
Russian

Recipient of the firm’s Fraud Recovery Award