Colette specialises in the provision of anti-money laundering (AML) and financial crime advice to regulated professionals and entities.
Colette undertakes AML audits for law firms, as well as providing AML advice to the firm’s clients. Colette also assists law firms with fraud audits, to help manage their risk arising from the new 'failure to prevent fraud' corporate criminal offence created by the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023.
Colette can also provide sanctions audits to help you manage your risk of financial sanctions breaches or regulatory action.
Colette's AML experience dates back to 2006, when she led on the implementation of the third money laundering directive in the property services sector. Since that time, her experience has grown to encompass estate agency, property, financial services and investments, as well as, most recently, the legal sector.
Before joining Kingsley Napley in 2024, Colette was a senior director at the Solicitors Regulation Authority. Having joined the policy team in 2015, she became the SRA's first Director of AML in 2019. This unrivalled breadth and depth of experience ensures that clients receive advice that is contextually founded, as well as future-proofed.
Colette is a former chair of the Legal Sector Affinity Group (LSAG), the main guidance-setting group for UK legal services and is a former chair of the AML Supervisors Forum, the government's main forum for AML discussion.
Colette speaks regularly on AML and financial crime at Law Society events as well as at international conferences and webinars.
recent publications
- 'Kingsley Napley Doubles Down On AML Amid SRA Uncertainty', Law 360, October 2024
