Peter Yates is a senior director in K2 Integrity’s Investigations and Disputes practice, based in London. Working with clients in the financial services, energy, and agriculture sectors across both Europe and West Africa, Peter advises on global asset tracing, both prior to investment and in cases of nonpayment or default. His cases frequently involve tracing multimillion-pound assets sought by holders of sovereign arbitral awards or other forms of distressed sovereign debt. Peter also has broader strategic knowledge on pretransactional due diligence, litigation support, short-selling disputes, and special situations, and has devised automated systems on multijurisdictional investigations to comprehensively mine and then rapidly analyze open source and public record information, often resulting in case breakthroughs.
Prior to joining K2 Integrity, Peter was a manager in the investigations team at Grant Thornton where he led several multiyear global asset recoveries as well as other investigative projects and helped develop their in-house search automation capabilities.
Before his time at Grant Thornton, Peter was a director in K2 Integrity’s Investigations and Risk Advisory practice. He provided investigative research and analysis in compliance and integrity due diligence, and fraud investigations for corporations, law firms, individuals, and government agencies.
Prior to that, Peter was a junior analyst at S-RM Intelligence and Risk Consulting Limited, where he specialized in pretransactional due diligence for oil and gas multinationals in the Gulf of Guinea. He also served as a research assistant at the International Centre for Security Analysis and British Defence and Security Forum, working on nuclear nonproliferation and global energy policy.
Peter has an M.Sc. in theory and history of international relations from the London School of Economics and a M.A. in history from the University of Oxford.