Zia Ullah
Zia is a partner and Co-Global Head of Eversheds Sutherland’s Corporate Crime and Investigations group and a specialist in International Sanctions, AML and ABC. Ranked in Legal 500 he advises on all aspects of corporate and financial crime compliance and was previously the global head of Sanctions at Barclays. Zia is a current FCA approved ‘Skilled Person’ for Financial Crime.
Zia is a regular speaker at UK Finance, AFB, AMLP and ACAMS. Zia has also 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 also a contributing author to GIR’s ‘Guide to Sanctions’ as well as ‘Anti-money Laundering Compliance for Law Firms’ published by ARK Group.
Zia is a committee member of the Fraud Lawyers’ Association and is also co-chair of UK Finance’s Associate Member’s Sanctions Panel.