03 Apr, 2024 Drivers of a Successful Restructuring: Piecing the Puzzle of Stakeholders’ Roles and Ways To Drive Consensus By Rani Bou Hamdan Karim Labban Introduction A restructuring transaction can be an extensive and complex journey for organisations facing financial challenges. It...
22 Mar, 2024 When the Stakes Are High: Managing a Crisis-Led Investigation From Incident to Remediation By Lorynn Demetriades Alecia Futerman An investigative journalist implicates the company. An auditor threatens to resign. Premises are raided by enforcement agencies. Not all...
09 Feb, 2024 How Will the Mass Claims Landscape Change? 9 Observations From Mr. Bates v the Post Office By Robert Jones Satinder Soni John Hays The on-screen retelling of the biggest miscarriage of justice in UK legal history has had dramatic effects off-screen, offering important...
05 Feb, 2024 Ankura Sports Governance, Integrity, & Investigations Conference - 2024 Key Insights By Jonny Gray The Ankura Sports practice held its second Sports Governance, Compliance, and Investigations Conference in the IOC Museum, Lausanne on 25...
30 Jan, 2024 Family Businesses and the Strategic Imperative of IPO Readiness By Jad Hawwa Karim Labban Family is the core of Arab society. It is no coincidence then that family businesses are the backbone of its economies. In fact, most...
25 Jan, 2024 Match-Fixing on the Dark Web: A White Paper by Ankura and U.S. Integrity By Jonny Gray Amit Jaju James Michaels Sherwin Dsouza +1 more... Show less Introduction 1. This white paper sets out the findings of a three-month investigation conducted by Ankura, for U.S. Integrity, into...
08 Jan, 2024 An Introduction to the EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act By David Manek Kenric Tom Colleen Yushchak On December 8, 2023, European Union (EU) lawmakers reached an agreement on the EU’s AI Act. The EU AI Act has many similar themes to the...
08 Jan, 2024 The Business Behind Sport: Tom Sheldon, Director at Ovation Corporate Finance, and Ben Hanglin, Partner at Onside Law By Jonny Gray Following the previous The Business Behind Sport episode, we continue our conversation on the club acquisition process, but this month we...
03 Jan, 2024 The Impact of UK Companies House Reforms on Cross-Border Asset Tracing By Sasi-Kanth Mallela Christian Amos On 26 October 2023, the UK Parliament enacted the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act (the Act). The Act marks a decisive shift...
19 Dec, 2023 Patisserie Valerie: How the Allegations Unfolded By Akila Ratnayake Sasi-Kanth Mallela Patisserie Valerie is a British patisserie and café chain. In 2018, the company found itself at the centre of an alleged accounting...
13 Dec, 2023 Asset Tracing & Complex Investigations: 2023 Year in Review By Ankura Consulting Following the success of our Asset Tracing & Investigations breakfast series in 2022, we returned in 2023 with a host of new topics to...
08 Dec, 2023 Proceeds of Crime and the Cautionary Tale of Convicted Fraudster Achilleas Kallakis By Alecia Futerman Recent SFO Confiscations Linked To Decade-Old Crime On 24 November, the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) successfully confiscated £250,000 from...