Andrew 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 engagements include:
- Supporting over 40 clients in divesting their Russian assets, assessing sanctions risk exposure, and ascertaining their risks of external administration imposition.
- Overseeing pre-investment sanctions risk analysis of a European cosmetics company with significant operations in Russia. Undertaken for a North American investment fund concerned about the investment target’s relationships with sanctioned banks and operations in comprehensively sanctioned territories.
- Investigating a product diversion 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 export restrictions and shipped products to sanctioned jurisdictions.
- Leading a business intelligence assignment combining enquiries with oil and gas professionals and public officials in Kazakhstan. Produced a comprehensive public record review of historical allegations and investigations, to identify integrity risks at a multinational operated Caspian Sea oilfield.
Before joining Control Risks, Andrew worked as an analyst in the due diligence department of a global corporate investigations and risk consulting firm. He 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 with native proficiency. He frequently travels in and around the FSU region.