Prior to joining Kroll, Richard worked as a researcher for the Quilliam Foundation, an influential London-based Islamic affairs and counter-extremism think tank. Before that, he worked at the National Bank of Egypt’s office in London.
Since joining Kroll in early 2011, then based in the Dubai office until early 2018, Richard has supported clients through providing an informed basis for decision-making across a spectrum of contexts. These include buy-side and sell-side transactional advisory mandates (equity and debt), as well as contexts relating to commercial disputes; export controls and sanctions; identifying the provenance of capital; commercial competition; and employee-related wrongdoing.
At Kroll, Richard has managed diverse investigative assignments, advising clients in complex commercial intelligence programs involving intel-gathering and analysis across multiple jurisdictions. He also spearheaded source of wealth-driven exploratory investigations, providing clients with insights of capital provenance and integrity in dynamic business environment. Richard leverages intelligence-driven non-financial information to support clients in contentious processes, including competition matters and pre-dispute scenarios. He also advises on shareholder activist campaigns and guides corporate responses. Additionally, he provides market entry advisory support, identifying and assessing the risks for clients expanding through cross-border investments in emerging markets.
Richard excels in asset-identification and profiling through simultaneous intelligence-gathering for strategic decision-making. His expertise includes buy-side investigative pre-transactional diligence, helping clients understand and navigate risks in cross-border transactions. Richards recent assignments span sectors like construction and real estate, defence, healthcare and pharmaceuticals, industrial manufacturing and hospitality.
Richard received a B.A. in Arabic and Islamic Studies and a MSt in Modern Middle Eastern Politics at Oxford University.
