Hedieh Molavi

Hedieh Molavi is a Senior Consultant at Al Tamimi & Company, based in Dubai International Financial Centre, focusing on Corporate Compliance. She is a DFSA registered Compliance Officer/MLRO actively providing regulatory consultancy services in and from DIFC and ADGM to a number of local and global financial service providers.

As a regulatory consultant, she specialises in establishing regulated and unregulated entities in the DIFC and ADGM, with a strong focus on financial advisory, asset management and fund management, private banking, corporate banking, and brokerage activities.

She has established, or been involved in the establishment of, over 40 entities in the DIFC since 2015 under DFSA Prudential Category 1, 2, 3A, 3C, 4, Rep Offices and DNFBPs, including waivers or endorsements in respect of Client Assets or Retail permissions. She has carried out regulatory due diligence on a number of authorised firms in the DIFC and has led the regulatory approval process for change in control and acquisitions within a large number of international institutions in the DIFC.

She has carried out the outsourced Compliance Officer/MLRO function for multiple regulated financial institutions, including branches of international banks, in the DIFC, and is familiar with the regulatory framework within both the DIFC and the ADGM. As an outsourced CO/MLRO, she was responsible for identifying key business risks and assisting firms in developing and implementing risk-based compliance control frameworks and monitoring programmes. She handles interfacing with the DFSA and FSRA authorities on behalf of firms and has been in charge of preparing regulatory business plans, advising firms on licensing needs including corporate governance structure and high-level controls.

Hedieh holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics of Business from the University of California (2008), and holds the International Compliance Officer Certificate and the International AML Officer Certificate. She speaks English and Farsi.