Rupert Fielding

Rupert Fielding

Rupert Fielding

Associate · Digital Asset & Crypto Fraud

Whitfield & Crane LLP

New York

Biography

Rupert Fielding is a Associate in the firm’s Digital Asset & Crypto Fraud group who joined Whitfield & Crane from a leading payments processor. He focuses on on-chain tracing, exchange hacks and token-scam recovery. coordinated local counsel across more than 20 countries.

He advises clients across the United States, the United Kingdom and Singapore 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.

Representative Matters

  • Coordinated the freeze of crypto assets across 11 exchanges after an exploit
  • Recovered funds held at correspondent banks in 6 countries after recall attempts failed
  • Froze a fraudster’s $7 million real-estate portfolio within weeks of engagement

Education

Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
B.A., Boston 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

Recipient of the firm’s Fraud Recovery Award