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Recover Lost Assets. Protect What Matters.

Strategic counsel in asset protection, financial fraud disputes, and cross-border wealth planning.

Representing private clients, businesses, investors, and international families in matters involving digital assets, cyber-related disputes, asset protection structures, offshore compliance, and global wealth planning.

Modern Wealth Faces Modern Risks.

Assets move across borders, exist on digital platforms, and face increasingly complex regulatory requirements, cyber threats, and cross-border challenges. The rise of AI-driven attacks adds a new layer of risk that traditional structures were never designed to address.

We built our practice to help clients protect wealth, structure it intelligently, and respond effectively when problems arise.

Practices

Protect. Structure. Recover.

Three Practices. One Point of Accountability.

Modern wealth challenges rarely fit neatly into a single category. Whether the issue involves digital assets, cross-border structures, or asset protection, we coordinate the legal strategy, manage complexity, and help clients move forward with confidence, from planning through resolution.

Who We Serve

Our Clients

We represent high-net-worth individuals, families, founders, investors, family offices, and businesses facing complex wealth, risk, and cross-border challenges.

Many come to us when a matter no longer fits neatly within a single area of practice and requires coordinated thinking across multiple areas of expertise.

Discreet, practical counsel where wealth is at risk and judgment matters more than precedent.

The Model

One attorney. A network of specialists.

You retain one attorney and one point of contact. Behind him is a network of investigators, forensic specialists, tax counsel, trust professionals, and other subject-matter experts assembled around your specific matter.

Strategic Advisors

Professionals with backgrounds in federal cybercrime investigation, engaged on recovery matters where that experience is relevant.

Institutional Specialists

Trust professionals, offshore service providers, tax counsel, compliance advisors, and other subject-matter experts matched to the matter.

One Point of Contact

You do not manage multiple advisors. We coordinate the strategy, oversee execution, and serve as your primary point of contact throughout the engagement.

Protected by Privilege

Sensitive matters benefit from legal oversight. Communications, investigations, and strategy remain coordinated through counsel when appropriate.

Our Attorneys

Senior counsel with global, cross-border experience.

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Max Dilendorf, Esq.

Founder

Founder of Dilendorf Law Firm PLLC in New York. Counsel of record in more than 130 cybercrime-related arbitration matters before AAA, JAMS, and NAM, and among the early U.S. attorneys focused on digital-asset law since 2017.

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Bari Zahn, Esq.

Of Counsel

Nearly 20 years at global New York law firms advising multinational clients on cross-border transactions.

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Craig S. Redler, Esq.

Of Counsel

Of Counsel to Dilendorf Law Firm PLLC. Former trustee for offshore trusts settled by high-net-worth clients across the Cook Islands and New Zealand — the jurisdictions most U.S. asset-protection planning ultimately relies on.

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Pamela A. Fuller, Esq.

International Tax Counsel

Two decades advising companies, funds and executives on corporate and international tax.

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By the Numbers

When Wealth Is at Risk, Experience Matters.

2017Digital-asset practice since 2017
130+Cybercrime arbitrations as counsel of record
GlobalInternational clients, assets & structures
3 PracticesProtecting, structuring & defending wealth

Insights & Analysis

From the blog.

Perspectives on digital assets, private wealth, and asset protection.

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