Theodore Blake is a Associate in the firm’s Regulatory & Compliance Defense group who joined Whitfield & Crane from the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. He focuses on SEC and DOJ defense and anti-fraud program design. 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.

• Won restitution for 17 investors in a $6 million Ponzi scheme
• Traced and froze assets layered through 10 entities in 9 countries in a single matter
Coordinated the freeze of crypto assets across 11 exchanges after an exploit

Georgetown University Law Center
B.A., University of Texas at Austin

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

English
Japanese

Recipient of the firm’s Fraud Recovery Award