Jeffrey Alberts co-heads Pryor Cashman's Financial Institutions Group and heads the firm’s White Collar Defense & Investigations practice. In this role, Jeffrey’s focus includes government investigations, prosecutions and related regulatory proceedings, asset-forfeiture litigation, victims’ rights representation and complex civil and commercial litigation. He is an experienced trial lawyer who has served as lead counsel in numerous civil and criminal jury and bench trials. Before joining Pryor Cashman in 2013, Jeffrey spent six years with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York where he investigated and prosecuted a wide variety of white collar criminal offenses. Jeffrey’s cases included money laundering, securities fraud, bank fraud, mail and wire fraud, bankruptcy fraud and civil and criminal asset-forfeiture actions. Jeffrey is a participating attorney in the newly-launched Digital Currency & Ledger Defense Coalition (DCLDC), an organization which protects individual constitutional rights and civil liberties in connection with regulatory and law enforcement scrutiny relating to digital currencies and ledgers. Jeffrey is a 2001 cum laude graduate of New York University School of Law, where he was the Associate Editor of the New York University Law Review. He has a Masters degree in Philosophy from the University of Chicago.