I have spent 18 years following the money. Through criminal courts in the UAE, arbitration panels in London, and ultimately to the International Court of Justice in The Hague. Today I do that work from Los Angeles, for clients across North America.

My practice sits at the intersection of forensic investigations, financial crime compliance, and vendor risk. I work with mid-market and multinational companies navigating cross-border fraud exposure, AML and sanctions risk, third-party due diligence failures, and vendor fraud that quietly bleeds balance sheets for years before anyone notices.

What I bring that most US-based practitioners cannot is direct, practitioner-level experience in markets where financial crime is structural, not incidental. I spent nearly a decade leading investigations across the GCC, MENA, Sub-Saharan Africa, Central Asia, and Europe at Alvarez and Marsal, Kroll, and Ernst and Young, working cases that required navigating sovereign wealth funds, politically exposed counterparties, and regulators across three continents simultaneously.

Some of those cases have stayed with me. A USD 400 million embezzlement by the CEO of one of MENA's largest private equity groups. The largest sanctions evasion investigation in Middle East history by transaction value, where my team's analysis contributed to the expert report filed at the ICJ. Over USD 9 million in embezzled funds identified at Qatar's largest construction company through forensic accounting and flow-of-funds analysis.

That cross-border depth is increasingly relevant in North America. US companies with international supply chains, Gulf-connected counterparties, or operations in elevated-risk jurisdictions face financial crime exposure that domestic-only practitioners are not equipped to assess.

I write and speak on financial crime, Gulf market risk, AML compliance, and forensic investigations through The Counterparty, a practitioner series on financial crime risk in high-risk markets. If you are working on something at this intersection, I would welcome the conversation.