Zia Ullah, Partner, Eversheds Sutherland’s heads up the Corporate Crime and Investigations group and is 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 and AML/ABC Policy at Barclays. Zia is a current FCA approved ‘Skilled Person’ for Financial Crime. Zia qualified as a lawyer in the UK in 1999 and is also qualified to practice in Ireland. Zia advises many of the top tier corporate and financial institutions in the UK and is regularly instructed to assist both their legal and compliance teams with highly technical and challenging corporate and financial crime related matters.