Our team
Anchor partners and specialist counsel.
Five anchor experts and a thirty-strong team across London, Dubai, Singapore, Tallinn and Miami. Each engagement is led by an anchor partner who stays on the file from kickoff to year-one audit.
Julian Hartley
Founder & Managing Partner
Founder. Fifteen years in financial-services regulation, previously leading the digital-assets advisory practice at a City of London firm before founding the firm in 2018.
Focus: United Kingdom, United States, Jersey, Gibraltar
View profile →Yasmin Darwish
Partner — Head of MENA & APAC
Founding partner since 2019. Eight years in financial-regulatory practice across Dubai and Singapore, including in-house counsel at a regional digital-asset exchange.
Focus: United Arab Emirates, Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia
View profile →Gabriel Méndez
Partner — Head of Americas & Offshore
Fourteen years in offshore corporate work and international tax structuring. Previously led the digital-asset practice at an offshore firm in the BVI and Cayman Islands.
Focus: Canada, El Salvador, Panama, BVI
View profile →Karolina Zielińska
Senior Counsel — EU & Eastern Europe
Leads the firm’s MiCA implementation practice and Eastern European jurisdictions. Eleven years in EU financial regulation across Warsaw, Prague and Amsterdam.
Focus: Georgia, EU MiCA (cross-cutting)
View profile →Dr. Elena Roussel
Senior Compliance Officer & AML Lead
Lead authority on AML/CFT compliance. Former supervisor at FINMA. Designs the AML/KYC programmes that underpin every license application.
Focus: Cross-cutting (AML/KYC), Switzerland
View profile →Speak directly with the partner who would lead your engagement.
No call-centre layer between the firm and the partner. Send a short brief, and the right anchor expert calls back within 24 hours.