Max Dilendorf, Esq.

Max Dilendorf is a New York attorney representing high-net-worth individuals, family offices, founders, and investors in matters involving cryptocurrency and digital asset recovery, cross-border wealth planning, asset protection, arbitration, and cyber-related legal risk.

Since 2017, Max has been among the early U.S. attorneys focused on cryptocurrency, blockchain, and digital asset law. His practice serves clients whose wealth, digital assets, business interests, or private information are exposed to increasingly complex regulatory, cyber, and cross-border risks.

Max has served as counsel of record in more than 130 cybercrime-related arbitration matters before AAA, JAMS, NAM, and FINRA, including disputes involving major cryptocurrency exchanges, mobile carriers, financial institutions, and technology platforms.

Crypto & Digital Asset Recovery

Digital assets present unique legal and practical challenges when losses occur through theft, fraud, account compromise, operational failures, or other cyber-enabled events.

Max represents clients in matters involving cryptocurrency theft, SIM-swap attacks, account takeovers, exchange-related losses, wire fraud, business email compromise, ransomware incidents, network intrusions, domain hijacking, and other cyber-enabled financial crimes.

These matters frequently require urgent legal strategy, evidence preservation, blockchain forensics, cybersecurity coordination, and claims involving cryptocurrency exchanges, mobile carriers, banks, brokerage firms, and online platforms.

Because many disputes involving cryptocurrency exchanges, mobile carriers, financial institutions, and technology platforms are governed by mandatory arbitration provisions, Max regularly represents clients before AAA, JAMS, NAM, and FINRA. His arbitration practice includes forum strategy, arbitrator selection, discovery, expert coordination, motion practice, evidentiary hearings, and settlement strategy.

Cross-Border Wealth

As wealth becomes increasingly international, clients face legal, regulatory, and operational challenges that extend beyond a single jurisdiction.

Max advises internationally connected individuals, family-office principals, founders, and investors on the issues that arise when wealth, assets, and business interests cross borders.

He frequently works alongside a client’s existing tax, trust, estate, and investment advisors, helping address questions involving international asset ownership, privacy, counterparty risk, digital asset custody, cyber exposure, and the legal structures that support complex wealth.

Where matters require broader coordination, Max works with tax, trust, estate, regulatory, and cybersecurity professionals to address planning considerations across jurisdictions.

Asset Protection

Effective asset protection is designed before a challenge arises, not after.

Max advises clients on domestic and offshore asset protection structures intended to preserve wealth against litigation, creditor, regulatory, and cyber-related risks.

Asset protection engagements may include Cook Islands trusts, Wyoming entities, domestic self-settled trusts, family limited partnerships, limited liability company structures, and integrated planning with tax, trust, estate, and cross-border advisors.

Because modern wealth is increasingly digital as well as financial, asset protection planning also considers digital asset custody, sensitive information, access controls, and the interaction between legal structures and cybersecurity risk.

Recognition

Max’s work has been featured in Fortune, Forbes, Bloomberg Law, Reuters, Financial Times, New York Law Journal, Wired, NBC News, Politico, Law.com, TechCrunch, and Cointelegraph, among other legal, financial, business, and technology publications.

He regularly publishes commentary on cryptocurrency disputes, digital asset law, cybercrime claims, arbitration strategy, cross-border wealth, and asset protection through his YouTube channel, @MaxDilendorf.