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For many people, litigation is the end of the conversation. A last resort, an escalation, the proof of a failed collaboration. But I tell you this: for me, litigation is often the beginning of truth—not because truth is sitting somewhere behind a curtain waiting for a judge to pull it…

You don’t walk into the Dutch Divorce Desk because you feel like doing paperwork. You walk in the way people walk into a building when they’re no longer sure the ground beneath them still belongs to them. You close the door. You take one step forward. And before you’ve properly…

You walk into an adviser’s office with the calm certainty of someone who thinks: this is a formality. You have your documents with you, your story is in order, you have even chosen your best tone—not too bold, not too nervous, just respectable. A mortgage? A credit facility? A lease…

I will say it out loud at once, because in this era caution is often nothing more than the postponement of truth: ESG is no longer a decorative checklist on your company wall, no moral brochure you place on the table when shareholders visit and the media is watching. ESG…

Governance is the word directors like to use when they really mean: “We’ve organized it.” And then I look you straight in the eye and I don’t ask whether it sounds tidy, but whether it is true. Organized for whom, and organized against what? Because I have seen too often…

I’m going to take you straight to the place where it hurts. Financial crime and FinTech enforcement are no longer a “file” you can park somewhere inside the organization, under a neat stack of policy memos and reassuring management summaries. It is a reality that behaves like an attack: fast,…

Digital transformation is still being sold in boardrooms as a fragrant promise: faster, smarter, cheaper, “data-driven,” “AI-first,” and above all as if technology could suspend the gravity of responsibility. But you and I know better. Because every new connection, every cloud migration, every API, every data hub, every integration partner…

You sometimes ask me, with that neat executive gaze trained to translate reality into KPIs before it dares to become real: “But what exactly do you do, besides litigating or reacting when things go wrong?” And then I watch it happen again. You slide a safe folder across the desk…

I’m going to tell you something unpleasant right away: in forensic investigations, the greatest danger is rarely the fraudster. The greatest danger is you—more precisely, your organization’s reflex to panic and “have something investigated” without first understanding what an investigation actually is. Not a scavenger hunt. Not a cleanup operation.…

You have let the word “privacy” drift past you for years as if it were an annoying fly: something that buzzes around the DPO, around compliance, around standard templates kept in a drawer for the day a regulator might knock. And yes, I understand that reflex. The boardroom is busy…