Legal & Professional Services

Intelligence and due diligence for
legal professionals.

Law firms and notaries. Client screening, UBO checks, and enhanced due diligence built for the legal sector, supporting the CDD and EDD obligations SRA and MLR 2017 place on your firm.

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SRA
AML framework
EDD
Enhanced due diligence
UBO
Beneficial owner checks
GDPR
Compliant

Compliance challenges

What keeps your compliance team up at night.

Client Due Diligence (CDD)

Law firms must verify client identity and assess risk before engagement, and on an ongoing basis.

PEP Clients

Identifying when a client is a politically exposed person requiring enhanced due diligence procedures.

Beneficial Owner Discovery

Corporate clients with complex ownership structures obscuring the true beneficial owner.

Sanctions Conflicts

Accidentally accepting instructions from or acting for sanctioned individuals or entities.

Matter-Specific Risk

Certain transaction types (property, trusts, corporate) carry higher AML risk requiring deeper screening.

Ongoing Monitoring Obligations

Updating client records and re-screening throughout the client relationship, not just at onboarding.

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What we actually run for you.

Smart Sanction

Client and counterparty screening for legal professionals.

  • Sanctions screening across 450+ global watchlists
  • PEP database with family and associates
  • KYB for corporate clients, UBO graph and director checks
  • Adverse media and law-enforcement watchlist screening integration
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Passporter

In development: remote client identity verification.

  • Identity verification designed to support the checks your SRA AML obligations require
  • 190+ countries targeted for international clients
  • Secure document storage with an audit trail
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Pre-KYC

Validate new client enquiries before opening a matter.

  • Email and phone validation for initial contact screening
  • IP risk scoring for anonymous or offshore enquiries
  • Bot detection for automated mass solicitation
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Regulatory coverage

The rules that govern your business.

Named sources, not a badge wall. Each one is the instrument the obligation actually comes from.

SRA AML RulesUK
Solicitors Regulation Authority AML Standards requiring firm-wide risk assessment and CDD procedures.
FATF Recommendation 22Global
Designated Non-Financial Business and Professions (DNFBPs) obligations for lawyers and notaries.
4AMLD (EU) 2015/849EU
Fourth AML Directive, keeping legal professionals who handle transactions inside the obliged-entity perimeter first drawn by Directive 2001/97/EC.
EU AML PackageEU
Regulation (EU) 2024/1624 and Directive (EU) 2024/1640: the single rulebook for obliged entities and its companion directive, applying from 2027.
MLR 2017UK
UK Money Laundering Regulations for designated legal sector firms.
GDPR / UK GDPREU/UK
Data protection requirements for client identity documents and screening records.
MASAK Legal Sector RulesTurkey
Turkish AML obligations for notaries, lawyers, and legal professionals handling transactions.
GuideAML Software for Law FirmsClient and matter checks for legal professionals, and supplier screening for public bodies.Read the guide

Legal & Professional Services

Meet your AML obligations without slowing your practice.

Automated client screening, EDD workflows, and full audit trails, designed specifically for legal professionals.

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