Julien has nearly 20 years' experience working in Forensic investigations, corporate intelligence and asset tracing for special situations such as M&A, compliance, and cross-border disputes. Prior to founding Kalita Partners, Julien was a Director with PwC Forensics, where he was responsible for clients and markets in Central Eastern Europe and led the Corporate Intelligence practice in the same region, managing an international team of professionals.

Julien also worked at EY Fraud Investigation & Dispute services in London and Paris, with responsibility for client cross-border initiatives and projects across Europe, the Middle East, Africa and India. Julien also worked with the international risk consultancy, Control Risks, in London and then in Paris, where he headed the firm's French operations.

Julien holds master’s degrees from Sciences Po Paris in Political Science and International Relations, and King's College London, War Studies Department.

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Gregory leads the business of Kalita Partners in Europe, based in Paris. He has led and managed complex cross-border Corporate Investigations, Forensic and risk consulting assignments for more than 22 years. He has extensive assisting international clients from multiple sectors during their most sensitive disputes, compliance and regulatory situations, fraud investigations, and investigative due diligence requirements.

Before co-founding Kalita Partners Europe, Gregory managed the French business of leading international risk consultancy, Control Risks, in Paris. Prior to that, Gregory led the Western Europe market activities of Thomson Reuters-Government Risks & Compliance. Gregory started his career in the strategic intelligence field, with a French government owned organisation, where he headed the business intelligence practice.

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Kamelia is a chartered accountant with considerable professional accounting and commercial advisory experience gained through the delivery of advisory services with EY and PwC, in the UK and the Republic of Ireland, Central and East Europe, Northern and Southern Africa.

Her consulting skills span across different services including warranties and commercial dispute resolution, financial due diligence, technical accounting; financial risk and compliance, sale and purchase agreement, accounting and financial structure advice; pricing, and statutory audit. 

Kamelia’s project management and delivery and client collaboration experience are significant, developed throughout her 18 years of experience in professional practice. She is a qualified Certified Chartered Accountant (ACCA) and an accredited Six Sigma (Green Belt) and Lean professional. Kamelia holds an Honours Degree in Criminology and Psychological Studies from the Open University.

With a background in engineering and finance, Charles has been working in the financial services industry for over 10 years, where he acquired strong business modelling and analytical skills. His experience at a BIG4 has allowed him to advise financial institutions regarding compliance and financial crime risk.

Charles has also worked in investment banking as a financial engineer for Société Générale and UBS, providing hedging and investment solutions to retail and corporate clients.

He later founded his own advisory firm to support growing businesses in their accounting and financial management, helping them in areas such as revenue growth, costs management or communication with investors.

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Simon Davenport QC, joint Head of Chambers at 3 Hare Court, is a senior commercial and chancery silk who specialises in commercial disputes, civil fraud, insolvency, international arbitration and professional negligence cases both domestically and internationally (and in particular for Russian/ClS clients). He has been described as “a first-rate silk” and a “fearless advocate”.

A trusted QC and widely acclaimed as a leading silk the Legal 500 in Civil Fraud, Insolvency and Commercial Litigation. Client testimonials cite him as “a leader of choice”, “a strong, fearless and brilliant advocate” who ” is loved by his clients for his commitment to their cause”.

He is frequently asked to provide expert opinions on English Law for use in Russian and CIS proceedings and in particular involving trust and contract law.
Simon has extensive experience in both domestic and international civil fraud. Simon has a particular knowledge of claims, including claims potentially running to in excess of £300 million, arising from Libor-rigging events and from related interest rate hedging product sales. He also has a particular interest in similar claims arising from Forex-rigging, and has developed substantial market knowledge in this context.

Simon has acted for major liquidators on fraud cases and he has encountered a wide breadth of tax fraud for HMRC and liquidators. These cases have included high value MTIC/carousel frauds, failed tax scheme frauds, Ponzi schemes, excise duty frauds, corporation tax frauds and negligible tax value schemes.

His experience also extends to terrorist, gangland and extortion cases involving fraud by organised crime.

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Chris is an Information Risk expert with nearly 30 years' experience in assisting organisations throughout the world in assessing and managing technology related risks particularly relating to Information and cybersecurity, Business Continuity and Crisis Management.

Chris is a well-respected expert in his field having previously led regional cybersecurity practices at both EY and PwC and has experience in supporting clients through breach response and in developing pragmatic long-term security transformation programmes.

Chris's mix of technology and business backgrounds enables him to effectively bridge the communication gap that exists in many organisations as a stumbling block to maximising the return from technology and understanding how risks can be leveraged into value.

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Frédéric Bedouet has more than 20 years experience in risk management and crisis and security consulting in Africa and Europe. He advises international clients on sensitive risk management matters.

He has led and delivered numerous crisis and security engagements for clients in the extractive industry, financial services and more, often in the most challenging jurisdictions. Before joining the risk consulting business, Frederic served for twelve years as an officer in the French Armed Forces. Frédéric holds a Masters in Law from Paris Université Panthéon Assas.

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