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 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.
Issue 06 · Cross-Border Investigations · 19 June 2026
The first document set a client produces is the one they feel comfortable producing. In cross-border work, scoping matters more than analysis, and a clean database result is not a clean counterparty.
Issue 05 · BSA / AML Watch · 08 June 2026
FinCEN's June 2026 advisory reads like a SAR-protocol change. It is the opening move in a compressed regulatory sequence most BSA programs are not built to absorb.
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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