Areas of Expertise
Pre-acquisition financial crime due diligence in elevated-risk jurisdictions. Continuous third-party monitoring across sanctions, PEP, adverse media, and beneficial ownership. AML and BSA program assessment and independent validation.
Forensic data analytics to surface anomalies in financial, transactional, and counterparty data. Vendor master hygiene and conflict-of-interest screening. Funds-flow analysis and red-flag triage before problems escalate.
Cross-border investigations spanning fraud, embezzlement, bribery, and sanctions evasion. Asset tracing and funds-flow reconstruction. FCPA and ABAC investigative support. Expert witness and litigation advisory.
Compliance framework redesign following regulatory action. Voluntary self-disclosure advisory and regulatory engagement support. Loss quantification, recovery strategy, and outside-counsel coordination.
From The Counterparty
Issue 09 · BSA / AML Watch · 26 June 2026
When a correspondent bank cuts off a respondent or an entire customer class, the underlying activity does not vanish — it moves to corridors with less visibility. What the FinCEN Files data shows about the gap between paper compliance and real effectiveness.
Issue 08 · Enforcement Watch · 25 June 2026
The DOJ's updated Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs now asks whether compliance has timely access to quality data, and it created a Counsel for Compliance and Data Analytics to press the point. Four takeaways for CCOs.
Issue 07 · Anti-Corruption Watch · 19 June 2026
The EU's new Anti-Corruption Directive adds a trading-in-influence offense, fines up to 5% of worldwide turnover, and extraterritorial reach. For US companies with EU exposure, the gap analysis should start now.
Engagement Highlights
Assisted in the uncovering of hundreds of millions of dollars in embezzled funds in one of the world’s largest private equity industry failures.
Recovered USD 9 million in embezzled funds from a fraudulent accounting scheme at one of the GCC’s largest construction companies.
Assisted the personal counsel of the Crown Prince of an Arabian Gulf country with one of the largest sanctions evasion cases in history by transaction value.
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