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Umar Aziz

Umar Aziz

Partner, Chief Operating Officer, General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer at DG Partners; solicitor of England and Wales with background at Clifford Chance and Travers Smith.

Jun 11, 2026

2:55
Tell us about that.
2:56
Yeah, no, that's right.
2:59
I had originally planned to go into shipping brokerage, which is a bit random, I appreciate, in Connecticut.
3:06
And I had had the meetings and was planning to move there.
3:10
And then, unfortunately, my mother got cancer and she passed away whilst I was doing a master's at LSE.
3:16
And that kind of changed my whole view about what I was going to do and where I was going to be.
3:21
And so I sort of took stock and moved.

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