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 he has been among the early U.S. attorneys focused on cryptocurrency, blockchain, and digital-asset law. He has served as counsel of record in more than 130 cybercrime-related arbitration matters before AAA, JAMS, and NAM, including disputes involving major cryptocurrency exchanges, mobile carriers, financial institutions, and technology platforms.

What he writes about

Everything published under this name comes out of matters the firm has actually handled. The recurring subjects are:

• Recovery of stolen cryptocurrency, and consumer arbitration against exchanges and carriers
• SIM-swap attacks, account takeovers, and the first hours after a breach
• Cross-border wealth structuring, U.S. entry planning, and trust jurisdiction
• Asset protection built in advance of a claim, and how courts test it afterwards
• FBAR, FATCA, and the reporting obligations that follow international families

Practice and admissions

Founder of Dilendorf Law Firm PLLC in New York. Admitted in the State of New York. Practice concentrated in digital assets, cross-border private client work, and cyber-related disputes.

The firm

Dilendorf Law Firm PLLC acts for private clients, families, and businesses in digital-asset recovery, cross-border wealth structuring, and asset protection. Read about the firm.