Tobias Ellery is a Associate in the firm’s Business Email Compromise & Wire Fraud group who joined Whitfield & Crane from a leading payments processor. He focuses on 48-hour wire recalls, freezes and banking liability claims. 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.

• Recovered $63 million for victims of a cross-border investment-platform collapse
• Recovered a $14 million vendor-impersonation wire within 69 hours of the loss
Coordinated the freeze of crypto assets across 21 exchanges after an exploit

Columbia Law School
B.A., Duke University

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

English
Hindi

Recipient of the firm’s Fraud Recovery Award