Preventive frameworks for AML, sanctions and regulatory compliance, built to satisfy regulators, banks, funders and auditors.
Four regimes matter to most of our clients, the EU, Switzerland, the UK and the reach of US rules, and they are similar without being identical. The cost of treating them as one, or of treating any of them casually, arrives through blocked payments, failed onboarding and supervisory findings long before any enforcement.
We design and test the preventive layer: risk assessments, AML frameworks including the Swiss regime as it extends to specified advisory activities on 1 October 2026, sanctions compliance across all four regimes with ownership-and-control analysis and contract remediation, and the country-risk and counterparty diligence that decides whether business proceeds. Our work is transactional and regulatory counsel: we build and defend frameworks; we do not act in criminal or administrative-criminal proceedings or before criminal courts, and where a report leads there we work alongside defence counsel.
The recurring theme of our published analysis applies to the practice itself: regulators, funders and banks test the same facts through different lenses, so the efficient answer is one evidence file, built to the most demanding applicable standard, with the points where the regimes conflict, such as the EU Blocking Statute, addressed on their own terms.
Compliance as architecture: each layer rests on the one below it.