Malak Abbas

She has spent significant time physically present on client sites, predominantly for commercial banks and other financial institutions, across the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and Western and Southern Asia, in the following roles:

• Performing gap analyses and risk assessments, based on industry standards and international best practices, to identify deficiencies or conduct issues that could give rise to enforcement liability, assisting with the deployment of remedial measures, including by delivering internal trainings to help operationalise compliance, and, if necessary, preparing voluntary self-disclosures or other submissions to local or international regulators/enforcement agencies
• Managing internal investigative processes, including analysing conduct and transactional evidence in both Arabic and English, conducting witness interviews, supervising forensic consultants and other service providers, and preparing related reports and advice to senior management
• Undertaking due diligence, and, if necessary, enhanced due diligence on existing or prospective business partners or other third parties, including acquisition or investment targets, agents, customers, distributors, joint venture partners and suppliers, to help uncover latent issues and mitigate exposure to government investigations, prosecutions and penalties, derivative litigation, and reputational loss and brand devaluation

Malak is recognised by The Legal 500 as a “key lawyer” for UAE Compliance and Investigations.