Andrew Rokikki is a Director at Control Risks and heads its Russia & FSU Intelligence and Investigations practice. Based in London, Andrew leads high risk, complex engagements across the region, advising clients on sanctions exposure, product diversion, strategic and commercial intelligence, due diligence, and pre and post transaction investigations.”
Recent tasks that Andrew has worked on include:
Supporting more than 40 clients in divesting their Russian assets, assessing sanctions risk exposure, and ascertaining their risks of external administration imposition.
Through collaboration with a client’s outside counsel, conducted a sanctions risk and ownership and control assessment into an opaquely structured European holding, most of whose reported shareholders were Russian nationals subject to international blocking sanctions. The assessment provided a detailed account of its management structure and the sanctioned shareholders' current relationship with it.
A product diversion investigation for a North American construction equipment manufacturer supported by external sanctions counsel. The means and routes the corporate’s former and current counterparties and logistics groups used, aided by a US entrepreneur, were found to have violated client-imposed export restrictions and shipped products to sanctioned jurisdictions.
Pre-acquisition sanctions risk analysis of a European cosmetics company with significant operations in Russia for a North American investment fund concerned about the investment target’s relationships with sanctioned banks and operations in comprehensively sanctioned territories.
A business intelligence assignment combining enquiries with oil and gas professionals and public officials in Kazakhstan with a comprehensive public record review of historical allegations and investigations to identify integrity risks at a multinational operated Caspian Sea oilfield.
Prior to joining Control Risks, Andrew worked as an analyst in the due diligence department of a global corporate investigations and risk consulting firm. Andrew holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the George Washington University and a Global Sanctions Specialist certificate from the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists.
Andrew speaks English and Russian fluently.
