Languages:
- English
Regional expertise:
- Western Europe
- Eastern Europe
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- North America
Education:
- MA (Hons) History, University of Edinburgh
- Graduate Diploma in Law (with merit), The University of Law
Olivia has over a decade of experience conducting sensitive field assignments, working on the ground in challenging jurisdictions, including sub-Saharan Africa, Central and Eastern Europe, and Ukraine.
Olivia specialises in conducting contentious transaction-focused investigations, particularly where there are concerns around fraud, misvaluation, asset mismanagement, ESG issues, or problems concerning supply chain integrity. But she also frequently provides investigations support in a disputes or litigation context; gathering actionable intelligence.
Prior to joining Risk Advisory, Olivia was a partner at a London-based investigations firm specialising in conducting human source investigations, running complex international investigations and multijurisdictional asset traces across the globe.
Earlier in her career, she spent five years in journalism, working as the researcher to the Chief Political Commentator at The Daily Telegraph.
Project highlights
- On behalf of a major online e-gaming developer, led an investigation into its supply chain to identify suppliers offering its products in unregulated markets, in breach of contractual terms and regulatory obligations.
- On behalf of a hedge fund, conducted an investigation into a major crypto-exchange to identify undisclosed related party transactions and investigate allegations of poor customer controls.
- On behalf of a hedge fund, conducted four investigations into listed US and European healthcare companies, identifying undisclosed relationships with financially distressed partners, unscrupulous and unethical behaviour amongst key management and links to organised crime.
- On behalf of a law firm, led an asset tracing assignment to identify assets that had been concealed from the UK court, including cryptocurrency holdings, real estate in South Africa and Morocco, and multiple bank accounts in Nigeria and Dubai.