Xia Yang is a Investigative Counsel in the firm’s Cybercrime & Ransomware Response group who has been with the firm since its early years. She focuses on extortion response, breach triage and litigation against threat actors. returned millions to fraud victims worldwide.

She advises clients across the Americas 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. She is admitted in New York and regularly coordinates matters with local counsel worldwide.

• Traced and froze assets layered through 14 entities in 3 countries in a single matter
• Froze a fraudster’s $34 million real-estate portfolio within weeks of engagement
Returned $84 million to victims of a romance-token scam spanning 7 countries

UCLA School of Law
B.A., Amherst College

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

English
Arabic

Recipient of the firm’s Fraud Recovery Award