Jeremy A. Sheridan

Jeremy A. Sheridan is an expert in digital currencies, financial crime investigations, blockchain and smart contracts. Mr. Sheridan supports all of FTI Technology’s cryptocurrency workstreams, with a focus on digital asset investigations and expert testimony for digital asset-based cases. He deploys strategies for validating assets under custody, routinely evaluates the technological and operational soundness of potential targets in diligence and develops investigative strategies to identify the flow of funds and assign attribution to end-user accounts.

In addition to his work on digital assets and blockchain, Mr. Sheridan leads large-scale engagements for clients in data governance and data privacy, supports digital asset forensic operations and directs fraud investigations. He provides his clients with deep expertise in investigative approaches and technologies, including advanced blockchain analytics and artificial intelligence, and regularly serves as an expert witness in complex cases.

Mr. Sheridan has led private sector digital asset businesses in regulatory strategy, policy and procedures, representing client bases in proactive engagements to include building trusted relationships with government officials and organizations to communicate regulatory successes, provide recommendations, identify impacts of potential regulatory decisions and develop new approaches in anticipation of the evolving regulatory landscape. He has identified compliance gaps created by new regulatory actions. He also coordinates legal and compliance evaluations of adequacy and effectiveness of internal controls and risk frameworks.

Relevant Experience:

• Testifying expert in numerous global courts, precedent-setting cases and U.S. congressional hearings, including serving as an expert witness in a cryptocurrency valuation case in the Singapore International Commercial Court, reportedly the first-ever in the country related to valuation, in which the judge’s opinion named Mr. Sheridan’s expert report directly for its impact on the case
• Directed investigative response in numerous high profile cryptocurrency industry bankruptcies and litigations
• Identified, investigated and prosecuted complex cybercrime violations through strategically aligned collaborations with the private sector, preventing more than $3 billion in fraud loss
• Directed judicial actions to seize more than $2.5 billion in fraudulently obtained funds, including assets in cryptocurrency and digital assets