About Tarek
Tarek Muhammad is a Senior Legal Advisor with over 15 years of experience in criminal and international law, extradition, compliance, and sanctions. He is focused on handling complex multi-jurisdictional cases, including representation of ultra-high net worth individuals (UHNWI), cross-border investigations, and strategic legal risk management in high-risk jurisdictions.
His extensive experience spans criminal defence, regulatory compliance, and international asset protection — making him a trusted advisor for individuals and businesses navigating politically sensitive or legally complex situations across multiple countries.
Tarek has particular expertise in representing clients subject to US, EU, and UK sanctions regimes alongside parallel extradition proceedings — a combination that demands both technical precision and strategic coordination across legal systems.
Areas of Practice
- Extradition defence (multi-jurisdictional)
- Sanctions compliance and removal
- UHNWI criminal defence
- Cross-border investigations
- Legal risk management in high-risk jurisdictions
Working with Tarek
Sanctions and extradition exposure frequently arrive together, and the two regimes do not answer to each other. A designation can freeze the means of paying for a defence; an extradition request can proceed while a delisting petition is pending. The practical sequence matters: establishing what the designation actually rests on, whether a licence is available for legal fees and essential expenses, and whether the underlying allegations would satisfy dual criminality if they ever reached an extradition court. For clients with assets and operations in several jurisdictions, the compliance question is usually broader than the individual case that triggered it. Delisting and extradition run on separate clocks, and neither waits for the other. Where both are live, the order in which they are addressed usually determines what options remain by the time the second one matters.
Related: OFAC designations extradition defence.