Penelope Lepeudry

Ms. Lepeudry also advises on managing fraud and malpractice risk, improving compliance with financial crime regulations and overall ethics and compliance program transformation. She has assisted private banks and wealth managers on know-your-customer and know-your-transactions reviews and remediation projects, covering entities in Switzerland, Hong Kong, Singapore, Monaco, Luxembourg, UK and the Bahamas.
Ms. Lepeudry has also led regulatory investigations involving money laundering allegations and performed investigations into complex corporate frauds, including defrauding and siphoning of corporate funds and misappropriation by employees and stakeholders, investigating bribery, corruption, conflicts of interest, supply chain fraud, revenue leakage and theft of assets including intellectual property.
Ms. Lepeudry’s other notable engagements include helping a bank being monitored by several U.S. regulators in the context of Deferred Prosecution Agreements (OFAC sanctions) and assisting banks and commodity traders with investigations into market abuse, insider trading and rogue trading. She has conducted investigations into potential breaches of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act for clients in the energy, life sciences and technology sectors and led integrity due diligence and reviews into companies in the context of pre- or post-deal acquisitions.
Prior to joining A&M, Ms. Lepeudry was a Partner with Deloitte in Switzerland. Before that, she was based in Singapore for 15 years, heading forensic teams for professional services firms. Ms. Lepeudry started her career as an internal auditor.
Ms. Lepeudry earned a bachelor’s degree in finance and accounting and a master’s degree in auditing. A Certified Fraud Examiner, she is fluent in French and English and has a good command of Spanish. Ms. Lepeudry is a frequent facilitator of trainings and seminars on integrity and white-collar crime awareness.