Cyrus Chiu is an Associate Director in Control Risks’ Compliance, Forensics and Intelligence practice. Based in Hong Kong, he handles a wide range of matters relating to legal disputes and internal investigations.
He frequently works with legal counsels to trace and recover assets, and on a variety of pre-action investigations. On the latter, he has particular expertise in dealing with whistleblower allegations and gathering intelligence on counterparties in disputes to formulate confrontation strategy.
Recent tasks that Cyrus has worked on include:
- Tracing assets of a heavily indebted businessman globally on behalf of an investment bank to inform prospective legal action.
- Mapping the personal network and tracking asset acquisitions and spending habits of an individual to explore legal defence strategies for a commercial bank.
- Identifying and gathering intelligence on individuals who had abused the brand of a global capital markets company to defraud the public.
- Investigating the veracity of conflict-of-interest allegations against senior employees and distributors of a global consumer goods company.
- Providing expert reporting services in support of civil fraud litigation initiated by a global financial institution against former third-party agents.
Before joining Control Risks, Cyrus worked at two international consulting firms – at one of which he set up their investigations team in Kuala Lumpur – as well as a large international bank.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in law from the University of Nottingham and is a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) and Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS). He speaks English, Cantonese, Mandarin and Japanese.