Finance Monthly M&A Awards 2015 Winners Edition

advice and policies/procedures which can be adapted to fit the needs of the organisation. A member of the Editorial Board of the Legal Compliance Bulletin, she writes regularly for legal publications. Alison lectures for all the UK Law Societies, the Isle of Man Law Society and law firms on AML and other compliance issues. She chaired the highly respected Law Society’s Money Laundering Taskforce having been an inaugural member. She was a key member of the Government’s Money Laundering Advisory Committee and SOCA’s (NCA) SARs Regime Committee. She lobbied on and contributed to the Second and Third Money Laundering Directives and regularly comments on the Fourth Money Laundering Directive. Alison has won 6 awards, having been voted the UK’s Money Laundering Adviser of the Year on several occasions. She is well regarded in government and law enforcement circles. She is renowned as a leading expert on money laundering and professional conduct and is seen as a well respected, trusted, pragmatic yet commercial compliance expert with an encyclopaedic knowledge of the relevant law/regulations. COMPANY PROFILE Alison Matthews Consulting Ltd provides practical, commercial and sensible compliance advice/training. The services include anti money laundering (AML) training tailored to the needs of the organisation, (either for employees or for the MLRO), the review (or the provision) of policies and procedures, guidance on specific issues or individual problems. The services are designed to minimise the risk of businesses being used by money launderers and/or facing disciplinary action/fines from the regulators or law enforcement by embedding a culture of compliance. Alison has been advising on AML for over 21 years. As Investment Business Executive in Professional Ethics (Law Society of England and Wales), she advised solicitors on money laundering, professional conduct and investment business. She was an MLRO for over 10 years at a top 20 law firm. She wrote the AML Toolkit (pub Law Society 2012) and the Data Protection Toolkit (pub Law Society 2014), containing practical Anti-Money Laundering Firm of the Year Alison Matthews Alison Matthews Consulting Ltd Tel: 07803398146 Email: alm@alisonmatthewsconsulting.co.uk Finance Monthly M&A Awards 2015 www.finance-monthly.com 33 M A & AWARDS 2015 UNITED KINGDOM