Nidal Abdeljawad is a Counsel in the firm’s Cross-Border Asset Recovery group. He specializes in tracing funds through offshore structures — shell companies, trusts and nominee accounts — and in cross-border cyber fraud matters, including investment-platform scams, business email compromise and cryptocurrency theft.

He has coordinated freezes and recovery proceedings across multiple jurisdictions, working alongside the firm’s investigators, forensic accountants and local counsel to move from first report to first freeze as quickly as the facts allow.

Nidal advises individual and corporate victims of transnational fraud on both civil recovery and criminal-complaint strategy, and works closely with law enforcement and regulators in the relevant jurisdictions. He is admitted in New York.

• Secured a $16 million judgment against offshore operators and their enablers
• Recovered a $71 million vendor-impersonation wire within 61 hours of the loss
Won restitution for 11 investors in a $68 million Ponzi scheme

Georgetown University Law Center
B.A., Princeton University

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

English
Korean

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