Compliance due diligence

Naresh joined S-RM in 2023 and is based in the Hong Kong office. He is a member of the APAC senior leadership team, overseeing key client relationships with banks and other financial institutions, and helping lead business development and strategy for the region. 

Naresh has 25 years’ experience in establishing and managing financial crime compliance programmes and practices; leading complex investigations, corporate intelligence assignments, and forensic legal reviews; and as a solicitor focusing on corporate, offshore and regulatory law. 

Following his early career with Kennedys Law LLP as a solicitor and Conyers, Dill & Pearman as an offshore attorney, Naresh held senior roles at Credit Suisse, FTI Consulting, Citi and Kroll. He holds a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) Degree and Master of Laws (LL.M) (Financial Regulation & Compliance). He is a member of the Law Society of England and Wales (Solicitor, non-practising). 

Email Naresh: N.Sakhrani@s-rminform.com

Sherry Chang is a director in S-RM’s Corporate Intelligence team based in New York. She has more than ten years of experience in the intelligence and investigations industry and joined S-RM in 2021 from K2 Intelligence.

As a Senior Director at K2 Intelligence, she managed and conducted complex investigations, enhanced and investigative due diligence projects, third-party and vendor risk management, as well as deal advisory and reputational defense services for both public and private clients. She has a BS in Biological Sciences from the University of California, Irvine and is a Certified Fraud Examiner.

Harriet is a Director in S-RM's Corporate Intelligence division, based in London. She joined S-RM in 2017 as head of the Europe regional desk and now oversees the Corporate Intelligence research teams in EMEA. Her teams sit between London and Cape Town and work on projects covering Europe, Russia and the CIS, the Middle East and North Africa, and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Beyond team management, Harriet's responsibilities also include account management for key clients in EMEA. She regularly works with compliance and investigations teams within client organisations to ensure that S-RM's reports and product frameworks are tailored to their specific requirements. She manages casework and oversees delivery of a range of projects across EMEA, including pre-transactional research projects, compliance-driven due diligence assignments, and bespoke investigations.

Harriet joined S-RM from Alaco Limited, another London-based Corporate Intelligence firm, where she built experience working globally on in-depth due diligence cases and investigative projects, with particular experience in investigations focused on Italy, Spain, Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa. She has a degree in Modern Languages (Spanish and Italian) from Durham University and has spent time living in Florence, Barcelona, and Cape Town.