Sharon

Hall

Director
London
English

Sharon Hall has over 20 years’ experience in forensic accounting and compliance, specializing in white collar corruption. She has led global compliance program design, risk assessments, and control reviews for multinational companies and private equity portfolios.  A qualified Management Accountant, Sharon has supported major DOJ, SFO, and PNF matters, delivering strategies to strengthen governance and mitigate financial crime risk.​

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  • Binance: Supporting the DOJ monitorship of a global digital asset exchange, assessing the company’s financial crime risk management strategy and compliance with best practice and international regulatory requirements.
  • Airbus: Supported the multi-year, multinational investigation and compliance review resulting in a EUR 3.6b settlement with four investigative authorities: the UK SFO, the US DOJ and DOS, and the French PNF.
  • ABB: Supported Swedish-Swiss multinational ABB in reviewing and enhancing its internal controls as part of remediation discussions with the DOJ.
  • Financial Services Company: Supported a regulatory investigation into multiple AML and sanctions issues related to high-risk unsecured lending, assets under management, capital exposure and potential insider trading.
  • Chemicals Distributor: Supported a chemicals distributor with operations in 150+ countries with an internal investigation across multiple high-risk jurisdictions, as well as the design and implementation of a global sanctions and ABAC compliance program.
  • Construction Group: Supporting counsel with forensic accounting review related to alleged fraud and money laundering offenses within a construction group.
  • Family-owned Conglomerate: Supported an asset tracing exercise and disclosure activity in preparation for litigation, tracing funds of USD 250m through 200 companies in multiple jurisdictions.
  • Transportation Group: Supporting a fraud, tax, AML and ABC risk assessment for a European transport company, including gap analysis and risk and control mapping. 
  • Regulatory Authority: Designing a bespoke investigations framework, including how to conduct an investigation and how to manage the process for the Audit division of a regulatory authority, including providing employee training and deployment of relevant tools. 
  • Chemicals Distributor: Supported a chemicals distributor with operations in 150+ countries with an internal review of its global sanctions and ABC compliance program post implementation.
  • Digital Infrastructure Platform: Supported external counsel with financial controls and an ABC compliance review of an international digital infrastructure platform.
Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA)
Member of Female Fraud Forum
Member of Women’s White Collar Defense Association (WWCDA)
Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE)

Biography

Sharon Hall has over 20 years’ experience in forensic accounting and compliance, specializing in white collar corruption. She has led global compliance program design, risk assessments, and control reviews for multinational companies and private equity portfolios.  A qualified Management Accountant, Sharon has supported major DOJ, SFO, and PNF matters, delivering strategies to strengthen governance and mitigate financial crime risk.​

Authority experience

US Department of Justice (DOJ)
Serious Fraud Office (SFO)
Parquet National Financier (PNF)
Agence Française Anticorruption (AFA)
European Commission (EC)

Awards & Recognition

Accreditations

Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA)
Member of Female Fraud Forum
Member of Women’s White Collar Defense Association (WWCDA)
Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE)

Languages

English

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