BAHR

Asset Management & Private Equity

Specialist Partner

Irmela van der Bijl Mysen is Specialist Partner in BAHR’s Asset Management & Private Equity practice group. She focuses on operative Compliance and ESG Programs with an emphasis on anti-corruption, fraud, conflict of interest, anti-money laundering and other white-collar crime, and human rights and working conditions. Irmela assists our asset management clients with integrating compliance considerations at all stages of the investment cycle, including through due diligence of potential acquisitions, during ownership and when exiting positions. She also assists portfolio companies in operationalization of regulatory requirements and expectations on compliance and human rights, tailored to risk and strategic objectives.

Irmela handles all aspects of program design and implementation, risk assessments, documents, training programs, due diligence on third parties, internal reporting procedures (whistleblowing) and investigations, and monitoring and improvement initiatives. She has extensive experience in Compliance M&A due diligence pre-acquisition and post-merger compliance integration and focuses on actionable solutions to compliance issues faced by companies.