Ana Diac

Ana is a Senior Associate in our Singapore office. She manages complex investigations and asset traces, leveraging her extensive experience gathering and analysing open-source and human intelligence to assist in both pre-transactional and contentious contexts. Ana has worked across multiple sectors and jurisdictions, with particular expertise in Europe and Asia Pacific. She has lived, studied, and worked in Romania, the UK, and Singapore.

Prior to joining Risk Advisory, Ana worked in the investigations team of a London-based corporate intelligence firm, where she managed projects ranging from due diligence assignments to complex investigations. She has developed valuable insights into the client side of the corporate intelligence sector, having worked in an independent trading company’s legal and compliance team for over two years and spent three months on secondment to Goldman Sachs. Ana read Law at the University of Cambridge.

Project highlights:

• Investigated the European subsidiaries of a multinational technology company in support of protracted multimillion-pound litigation, including extensive corporate mapping and close analysis of corporate filings, intellectual property records, and social media content.
• Traced the assets of a real estate developer in Vietnam and analysed the extent to which these were encumbered to determine the enforceability of possible debt recovery proceedings.
• Led an internal investigation into whistleblower allegations that a company employee corruptly skewed a tender process in Romania, including careful analysis of email communications using eDiscovery tools.
• Traced the assets and current locations of two entrepreneurs accused of defrauding investors in Spain and Portugal, successfully identifying several real estate properties and yachts, some of which were held via proxies.