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William Da Costa
Director in the Investigations and Disputes practice·K2 Integrity
William Da Costa is a director in K2 Integrity’s Investigations and Disputes practice, based in London, and part of its Financial Investigations and Forensic Accounting team. Will works with clients across a wide range of sectors and industries conducting financial fraud and forensic accounting investigations, performing thorough analyses of both financial and nonfinancial information to aid in clients’ understanding of ongoing disputes and investigations.
Prior to joining K2 Integrity, Will was an analyst in Alvarez & Marsal’s Disputes and Investigations practice, where he worked on numerous investigations and disputes, including a missing trader tax fraud investigation, a shareholder dispute, the valuation of a company, and an asset tracing and counterclaim assessment for a client in dispute with their trustees. He also undertook a nine-month external secondment during his time at Alvarez & Marsal to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), where he reviewed Brexit policy updates to the FCA Handbook for the agency’s governance and professionalism team.
Will received an M.Res. in brain sciences from University College London and a B.Sc. in biomedical sciences from the University of Southampton. He is an ACA chartered accountant with the ICAEW.
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Daanish Hamid
Partner - Global Investigations, International Trade, and Investment Security·PLG (Potomac Law)
Daanish Hamid is a partner in PLG’s Washington, DC office and is part of the firm’s International Trade and White Collar Practice Groups. He focuses on investigations, regulatory compliance, and commercial transactions.
He advises clients on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), economic sanctions, anti-money laundering restrictions, and national security filings with the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). Daanish represents companies before the Department of Justice (Fraud Section), the Securities and Exchange Commission (Division of Enforcement), the Department of the Treasury (OIS, FinCEN, and OFAC), the Department of Commerce, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, and other U.S. government agencies.
Daanish has led numerous matters in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America. He is the author of the FCPA chapter of the Third Edition of Corruption and Misuse of Public Office, a leading treatise published by Oxford University Press. He has a law degree with honors from the University of Oxford and a Juris Doctor from the George Washington University Law School, where he was a member of the International Law Review.
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Ghazanfar Shah
Senior managing director and head of the Investigations and Disputes practice in the UAE·K2 Integrity
Ghazanfar (Ghaz) Shah is a senior managing director heading K2 Integrity’s Investigations and Disputes practice in the UAE. With more than 20 years of experience performing complex investigations across the Middle East, Africa, South Asia, Europe, and the United States, Ghaz is a trusted advisor to government entities, sovereign wealth funds, major real estate developers, and multinational companies based in the region.
Ghaz is an experienced fraud investigator and forensic accountant who assists clients with forensic accounting investigations, financial and forensic reviews, and disputes across multijurisdictional borders. He has routinely been involved in helping multinational companies deal with Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and UK Bribery Act violations by their subsidiaries, partners, and/or their distributor/agents within the Middle East, Asia, and Africa region.
Prior to joining K2 Integrity, Ghaz was a senior director at Alvarez & Marsal, leading complex fraud investigations for the healthcare, life sciences, oil and gas, and real estate sectors. Prior to that, Ghaz worked in the forensic investigations division of a Big Four accounting firm in the Middle East where he headed their KSA and Qatar forensic expansion and was co-lead for their Anti-Bribery & Corruption (ABAC) practise. During that time, Ghaz headed numerous high-profile fraud and ABAC investigations spanning the globe, including in the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and the United States.
Ghaz earned an M.Sc. in accounting with an emphasis in finance from Oklahoma State University. He is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) licensed in the U.S. state of Colorado and a Fellow Chartered Certified Accountant (FCCA) in the U.K. Ghaz is a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) and a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS). He is fluent in English and Urdu and has working knowledge of Hindi and Punjabi.
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Zeena Saleh
Partner·Dentons
Zeena is a partner in Dentons' Global Compliance & Investigations practice. She has extensive experience advising financial institutions, regulators, listed companies, regulated investment exchanges and senior executives in respect of contentious regulatory and criminal enforcement action brought by authorities such as the Prudential Regulation Authority, the Financial Conduct Authority, the Serious Fraud Office and HMRC. Her experience extends to supporting clients through a crisis and she often conducts internal investigations with an international focus involving alleged breaches of corporate governance controls, regulatory breaches, market abuse, insider dealing, corporate crime (including fraud, money laundering, and bribery and corruption) and non-financial misconduct. Where changes to a client's compliance controls are recommended following the outcome of an investigation, Zeena will support her clients in taking all necessary steps to enhance their controls and is increasingly interested in the use of AI to help clients meet their compliance goals.
In addition to her time in private practice, Zeena is able to use her wealth of experience from her time at a FTSE listed-company, UK retail banks and an international investment bank to provide her clients with clear yet pragmatic advice in respect of these usually high-profile and high-stakes issues.
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