Sarah Keeling

Business Intelligence, Operational Risk Management, Litigation Advisory, International Arbitration, Investigations, Compliance & Monitoring, Crisis Management.

Sarah Keeling, Partner, is a former senior British government official with more than three decades of experience in national security and geopolitical risk issues globally. She assists the Boards of corporates, family offices, PE firms, and alternative asset funds, and their counsel on strategies for managing operational, reputational and investment risk, and security matters worldwide.

Sarah brings significant expertise conducting complex, multi-jurisdictional anti-bribery and corruption investigations, and asset-tracing and recovery. She provides litigation support for international arbitration and disputes revolving around political, regulatory or integrity issues. Currently, Sarah works with companies, family offices and their counsel on operational, reputational and investment risk matters worldwide.

Sarah has served as a trusted adviser to Boards on their strategies in the Middle East, Iran, and Sub-Saharan Africa in Russian and FSU. She advises clients in the infrastructure, energy, pharmaceuticals, financial services, and technology sectors on entering or operating in high-risk emerging markets and specialises in terrorist financing, piracy, and maritime security issues.

Prior to StoneTurn, Sarah was a Managing Director of Aegis Defence Services where she acted as the Senior Advisor for Lloyds of London on Piracy and chaired the Risk & Security Management Forum. Subsequently, she built and led the new EMEA Global Risk and Investigations practice at FTI Consulting, and then led the investigations and strategic intelligence EMEA practice at Berkeley Research Group.

Member of the Worshipful Company of Security Professionals. Member of the Libyan British Business Council. Trustee, Gardening with Disabilities.

• Fraud & Asset Tracing 2025: UK Trends and Developments, Co-author with Piers de Wilde, Alexander Greenall and Dmitry Sachkov, Chambers & Partners (May 2025)

• Advance in Africa: Technological Innovation and Critical Minerals, Client Alert (March 2025)

• Advance in Africa: Risk Mitigation Strategies, Co-author with Mike Roos, Client Alert (February 2025)

• Advance in Africa: 5 Key Investment Trends, Co-author with Mike Roos, Client Alert (January 2025)

• Advance in Africa: Industry Experts on Unlocking Africa’s Potential, Co-author with Mike Roos, Client Alert (January 2025)

• Practical Guidance for Protecting Assets and Reducing Risks, Co-author with Naphatli Rivkin, Client Alert (November 2024)

• Building a Hight Trust Organisation, Co-author with Richard Mackintosh, Client Alert (July 2024)

• Fools Make Feasts and Wise Men Eat Them, Co-author with Neil Ashton, TL4 Private Client (May 2024)

• Mastering The High Stakes of Insider Risk Management, Co-author with Richard Mackintosh, Client Alert (May 2024)

• Adapting to a dynamic risk landscape with insider threats, Co-author with Richard Mackintosh, Today’s Risk Manager (March 2024)

• Navigating the Shifting Risk Landscape: Insider Threats and Global Challenges, Co-author with Richard Mackintosh, videocast (February 2024)

• Can understanding insider risk help to prevent fraud? Co-author with Lucy Cran, Client Alert (November 2023)

• Looking for a Trusted Advisor? Tatler (July 2023)

• Risk guide: how to create the right culture to tackle people-related risks, Strategic Risk (July 2023)

• Are you heart healthy? Strategic Risk (July 2023)

• Investigations global trends 2023 and beyond, video (July 2023)

• Investigations pieces of a global puzzle, video (May 2023)

• International investigations, video (March 2023)

• The Insider Threat: Mitigating Risk Within the DNA of Your Organization, Co-author with David A.Holley, Client Alert (February 2023)

• The General Counsel: Risk Managing in a Complex Geopolitical World, Client Alert (October 2022)

• Are You Ready for ESG as a Critical Business Imperative? White Paper (October 2022)

• Amid Shifting Business Landscape, the GC’s Role—and Value—Are Expanding, Co-author with Snežana Gebauer, Client Alert (September 2022)

• Private Capital and the Energy Transition, Client Alert (May 2022)

• Intelligence Matters, Co-author with Snežana Gebauer and Jason Liew, Client Alert (May 2022)

• ESG Are you Ready? Event Recording (April 2022)

• Dispelling the Myths of ESG and Why It Matters to Private Equity, Client Alert (March 2022)

• 2021: Deal Fever and its Implications for Private Equity Investing, Client Alert (November 2021)

• The SPAC market is booming, but there are plenty of bad buys. Here's what 8 experts say investors should be looking for in their next SPAC investment, Insider (March 2021)

• Can SPAC Trend Take Wing in Europe? Selector Magazine (March 2021)

• Post-Brexit Fraud Considerations in the UK and EU, Client Alert (February 2021)

• SPACs Boom: Too Good to be True?, Client Alert (January 2021)

• Guyana And Suriname: The Next Five Years, Client Alert (June 2020)

• COVID-19 Fraud And Economic Crime: Risks & Mitigation Strategies, Client Alert (May 2020)

• StoneTurn Spotlight: Sarah Keeling, Client Alert (April 2020)

• Oman: Attractive Investment Prospects, Approach With Diligence, Client Alert (April 2020)