Anna is a Senior Consultant in Control Risks’ Business Intelligence practice, based in London. Anna manages complex business intelligence and reputational due diligence investigations, litigation support matters, and other investigative assignments in Italy. She advises private market investors, corporates and law firms on intelligence gathering and integrity and compliance issues, with a focus on investments and acquisitions.
Recent tasks that Anna has worked on include:
- Third-party due diligence investigation into multiple Italian companies and individuals operating in the renewable energy sector, focusing on their exposure to organised crime infiltration and other compliance issues.
- Pre-acquisition investigation into a transportation and logistics services provider, focused on the target's involvement in corruption and conflict of interest issues.
- Reputational due diligence on an Italian family-owned manufacturing company and its directors, on behalf of a major Japanese industrial conglomerate considering an investment.
- Pre-investment business intelligence investigation into an Italo-Swiss company developing software for the agricultural sector, its key principals, its shareholders and its investors.
- Business intelligence project for a leading institutional investor aimed at gaining clarity around the challenges relating to a public tender process in Italy.
Prior to joining Control Risks, Anna worked at boutique investigative firm Hartford Advisers and at global risk consultancy S-RM, where she conducted enhanced due diligence projects focusing on Italy and the MENA region. Prior experience also includes a stint period at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
Anna received a BA in Criminology and Sociology from Durham University, an MA in Criminology and Strategic Sciences from Sapienza University of Rome, and an Expert Diploma in Investigative and Legal Psychology from the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute. Anna is a native Italian speaker.