Benjamin
Sauter
Benjamin Sauter focuses his practice on recovering assets in relation to fraud and misconduct, with unique experience designing recovery strategies for the cryptocurrency industry, having filed the first-ever cryptocurrency fraud case freezing and recovering significant assets from an exchange platform. Mr. Sauter helps funds and investors design aggressive, outside-the-box strategies to increase leverage and monetize high-value claims. His bespoke strategies typically involve coordinating legal actions across multiple jurisdictions and mobilizing both public and private remedies.
In addition, Mr. Sauter aggressively defends clients in the cryptocurrency and commodity derivatives industries against high-stakes government enforcement actions. Mr. Sauter has represented a number of the most important companies and individuals in enforcement matters in this space over the last several years. Clients, ranging from major cryptocurrency exchanges to leading proprietary trading firms to company founders and executives, turn to Mr. Sauter for creative defense strategies when government investigations have festered or escalated and they are ready to adopt a more aggressive, trial-ready stance. In these representations, Mr. Sauter is often deployed in a special-counsel role to enhance negotiation dynamics with regulators and prepare for contested litigation.
Leading legal and business publications frequently quote Mr. Sauter as a thought leader on cryptocurrency regulation and litigation. He is a member of the Digital Currency & Ledger Defense Coalition and a Founding Member of the Crypto Fraud and Asset Recovery network in the U.S.