Zoë Newman is a regional managing director and global co-head of the Financial Investigations practice. Zoë leverages over 20 years of experience working across Eastern Europe, the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and the Middle East and has led numerous international cross-border investigations. These investigations required the tracing of complex fund flows, dissection of corporate structures and assessment of the integrity of transactions to support both civil and criminal asset recovery proceedings and disclosures to regulators.
Zoë’s extensive experience includes advising emerging and frontier market banking regulators on systemic issues relating to distressed banks, the integrity of their capital and the identification of abuse of the financial system by the banks’ shareholders and senior management. She has significant expertise in advising both government and corporate clients and their counsel in critical matters concerning the prevention, detection and investigation of fraud and corruption and associated money-laundering mechanisms and related asset recovery strategies.
She regularly presents to boards, regulators and government bodies on how best to approach and structure financial investigations into some of the most sensitive issues they face.
Further, Zoë has led complex, multi-jurisdictional investigations on behalf of corporates subj...
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Zoe Newman ranks as one of the go-to experts in the asset recovery field. Leveraging her deep experience conducting complex investigations among multiple jurisdictions, she is perfectly positioned to defend high-net-worth individuals against complex money laundering allegations.