Our team
Experienced professionals. Trusted advisors.
Our team combines backgrounds in financial intelligence, banking supervision, regulatory enforcement, and financial services compliance.
Every member of our team has operated inside financial institutions, regulatory bodies, or law enforcement — which means we understand the pressures you face and the standards you are held to.
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Benjamin Donat
Founding Partner
Benjamin is a seasoned AML and financial crime executive with extensive experience advising organizations facing complex regulatory, investigative, and compliance challenges. He has built financial intelligence units from inception, supported independent monitorships of domestic and international banks, and partnered with senior leaders to strengthen governance, oversight, and risk management programs.
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Joseph Wells
Founding Partner
Joseph brings over a decade of AML experience serving small, medium, and large financial institutions, both domestic and international. He is a transaction monitoring expert and has led teams on lookbacks, monitorships, and backlog clearing engagements. Most recently, Joseph designed, built, and ran a 20 person Financial Intelligence Unit to monitor the largest government mandated lookback in history.
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Why work with us
Set the standard. Hold the standard.
Practitioner-led
Every engagement is led by someone who has done this work inside a financial institution — not a generalist consultant reading from a framework.
Regulatory fluency
We know what examiners look for because our founding partners have worked on two regulator mandated monitorships and countless consent order imposed lookbacks. Our work is built to withstand scrutiny.
Absolute discretion
Financial crime matters are sensitive by nature. We treat every engagement — and every client — with the confidentiality the situation demands.
Accountable delivery
We take on a limited number of engagements so that every client receives senior attention from start to finish, not a handoff to junior staff.
Work with our team
We take on a limited number of engagements to ensure every client receives our full attention.