Name
Zia Ullah
Job Title
Partner, Head of Corporate Crime and Investigations
Company
Eversheds Sutherland
Speaker Bio
Zia is a Financial Crime Partner and Co-Global Head of the firm's Corporate Crime and Investigations group.
Based in London and Manchester, Zia has worked on financial crime matters both from a legal and compliance perspective since 2006 and on criminal law matters since he qualified in 1999. Since 2020 Zia and his team have supported over 50 of the world's largest financial institutions on complex international sanctions projects in addition to matters relating to Anti-money laundering and Anti-bribery and corruption. Zia was previously the Global Head of Sanctions at Barclays. Zia is a current UK FCA approved "Skilled Person" for Financial Crime.
Zia is a regular speaker at UK Finance, the Association of Foreign Banks, the Anti-money laundering professionals forum and the Association of chartered Anti-money laundering specialists. He has written numerous articles for publications such as Complinet and Thomson Reuters Accelus and has also appeared on BBC radio and TV.
Zia created and is editor of Eversheds Sutherland’s Global Sanctions Guide, a comprehensive guide to sanctions compliance in 72 jurisdictions, and is a contributing author to GIR’s Guide to Sanctions as well as Anti-money Laundering Compliance for Law Firms published by ARK Group.
Based in London and Manchester, Zia has worked on financial crime matters both from a legal and compliance perspective since 2006 and on criminal law matters since he qualified in 1999. Since 2020 Zia and his team have supported over 50 of the world's largest financial institutions on complex international sanctions projects in addition to matters relating to Anti-money laundering and Anti-bribery and corruption. Zia was previously the Global Head of Sanctions at Barclays. Zia is a current UK FCA approved "Skilled Person" for Financial Crime.
Zia is a regular speaker at UK Finance, the Association of Foreign Banks, the Anti-money laundering professionals forum and the Association of chartered Anti-money laundering specialists. He has written numerous articles for publications such as Complinet and Thomson Reuters Accelus and has also appeared on BBC radio and TV.
Zia created and is editor of Eversheds Sutherland’s Global Sanctions Guide, a comprehensive guide to sanctions compliance in 72 jurisdictions, and is a contributing author to GIR’s Guide to Sanctions as well as Anti-money Laundering Compliance for Law Firms published by ARK Group.