Joe Morris

Partner

  • Asia Pacific
  • Investor Services
  • Due Diligence
  • Political and Country Risk

Joe leads the Australia-Pacific business, based in Sydney. He works with clients across all of Control Risks’ services, both domestically and offshore. His focus is strategic intelligence, geopolitics, protective security and security design, and he works with international investors, renewable developers, law firms and data centre developers.

His priority is helping clients understand the potential business risks posed by a relationship with or investment into a company or management team, particularly in jurisdictions with which they are not familiar. Joe helps them achieve clarity on counterparties and confidence to proceed, and is often the first point of contact for a client with an unusual problem or issue.

Recent engagements include:

  • Supporting an Australian FMCG company experiencing a legal and regulatory challenge in one of its key South-east Asian markets. Guided the client’s legal strategy and worked towards a successful resolution
  • Helping a leading real estate and data centre developer uplift the security of its head office in Australia, following a perceived increase in its threat profile. Our comprehensive gap analysis provided a clear roadmap
  • Deploying to Papua New Guinea following an incident in which a member of our client’s staff was killed. Worked with the client’s internal investigations and health and safety teams to identify policies and procedures to be improved
  • Assisting a renewables firm with its potential market entry into Saudi Arabia, seeking to understand key political, security and regulatory risks and the background and track record of a potential partner
  • His wealth of experience in Australia and the emerging markets of South-east Asia means that Joe understands the realities of doing business there, as well as the necessary governance and compliance. Clients appreciate his responsiveness, candour and depth of market knowledge.

    Joe has an MBA with Distinction from Durham University Business School. He is a Certified Fraud Examiner.

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