Laura is an Associate Director in the Forensic Accounting team with over nine years of forensic accounting and external audit experience, with a focus on regulatory compliance reviews, investigations and disputes. Her expertise includes compliance and anti-bribery and corruption framework development, anti-money laundering risk assessments and remediation, fraud investigations, and design and evaluation of compliance programs and internal controls.​

Recently, Laura supported a payment services firm in a review enforced by the Central Bank of Ireland of their internal control arrangements pertaining to financial crime, including anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing, sanctions screening, and transaction monitoring.​

She also assisted in the design and implementation of the global compliance program for a chemicals distribution company operating in 150+ countries. She performed a group-wide risk assessment focusing on sanctions, export control, money laundering, and bribery and corruption risk. ​

Laura also supported Swedish-Swiss multinational ABB during the negotiation and post settlement with the DOJ and led a review of the company’s anti-bribery and corruption control environment as part of the ongoing improvements to its compliance program. This focused on developing financial and non-financial controls to mitigate the risk of bribery, corruption and fraud, identifying opportunities for enhancement, and designing and testing the remedial control enhancements.  ​

Laura was part of the FRA team supporting Airbus in a multi-year forensic accounting and eDiscovery review within the context of the company’s multinational investigation, reporting to four investigative authorities: UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO), the US Department of Justice (DOJ), the US Department of State (DOS) and French Parquet National Financier (PNF).​

Additionally, Laura has experience in disgorgement calculations, providing accounting and financial analysis support for a disgorgement calculation involving the DOJ and OFAC for potential sanctions violation for an FTSE 100 manufacturing company. ​

Prior to joining FRA in 2018, Laura worked in the forensics team of Ernst & Young in London and Deloitte in Bucharest, gaining experience in sectors such as life sciences, public services, retail, media and financial services. Laura also worked as part of the consequential loss review team on a disputes advisory project dealing with alleged fraud and misselling of Interest Rate Hedging Products at a major British retail bank under s.166 of the Financial Services and Markets Act. ​

Laura is a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS), a Certified Global Sanctions Specialist (CGSS) and ACCA member. She holds an LLB in Law and Criminology from the University of Manchester and a master’s degree in Human Rights and Democratization.​