ASSET TRACING & RECOVERY
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Crypto tracing is critical after a blockchain hack, smart contract exploit, or digital asset theft to track stolen funds in real time, identify laundering pathways, and maximize the chances of asset recovery before assets are mixed, bridged, or moved beyond reach.
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Preserve critical data and secure assets through targeted preservation and freeze orders, then escalate as needed to enforcement actions and litigation. This process is designed to protect claims, prevent dissipation, and support efficient legal recovery.tem description
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Assess regulatory risks and identify applicable disclosure obligations across products, transactions, and operations. This supports informed decision-making, ensures compliance with relevant frameworks, and reduces potential legal and regulatory exposure.
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Regulatory disclosures, incident response actions, and public communications must align precisely to avoid inconsistent statements, enforcement exposure, securities liability, and reputational damage—ensuring accurate, defensible reporting to regulators, investors, and customers.
WHAT WE DO
How we work with clients
Recovery engagements typically fall into one of six service areas. Most clients work with us across several, often simultaneously, because the legal complexities of digital asset matters rarely sit cleanly in a single discipline.
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Blockchain investigations and asset tracing
We trace stolen, lost, or misappropriated crypto assets across blockchains using transaction graph analysis, wallet attribution, and beneficial ownership tracing. Our forensic experts work the blockchain data from the first wallet hop to final attribution, identifying threat actors, downstream recipients, and the exchanges or other entities holding the assets.
Every investigation is built to evidentiary standard so the work supports court orders, arbitration, and law enforcement coordination. We preserve chain-of-custody from the outset because tracing that cannot be verified in court is tracing that cannot recover assets.
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Exchange engagement and emergency freezes
We engage centralized cryptocurrency exchanges and custodians directly to freeze assets that have moved to identifiable infrastructure. This includes verifying the attribution, securing the legal basis for the freeze, preserving evidence at the exchange level, and managing communications with exchange compliance and legal teams.
Speed matters. Our team has working relationships with the major global exchanges and knows how to move quickly when the window is short. The difference between recovery and impossible recovery is often measured in hours, not days.
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Civil litigation and emergency relief
We support institutional clients through civil recovery proceedings, including temporary restraining orders, Mareva injunctions, freezing orders, disclosure orders against exchanges, and constructive trust claims. Each tool is selected based on the jurisdiction, the asset profile, and the speed required.
Our litigation work is led by attorneys who have run these matters before, paired with forensic experts who can deliver evidence in a form courts will accept.
We protect client position from emergency relief through to final judgment and enforcement.
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Cross-border recovery coordination
For matters spanning multiple jurisdictions, we coordinate U.S., EU, UK, and APAC recovery actions into a single coherent strategy. This includes parallel court orders, coordinated exchange engagement, law enforcement liaison across borders, and the legal infrastructure to convert tracing into recoverable assets in each market.
Multi-jurisdiction recovery is a default capability at Aethemis, not an upsell. Most institutional digital asset recovery matters touch more than one jurisdiction within the first week.