IBA Annual Conference Toronto 2025
2 Nov - 7 Nov 2025
Session information
New compliance frontiers - AML / sanctions / reporting
Thursday 6 November (1430 - 1545)
Committee(s)
Anti-Money Laundering and Sanctions Expert Subcommittee
(Lead)
Business Crime Committee
Law Firm Management Committee
Description
Efforts to combat financial crime combined with changing geo-politics mean anti-money laundering (AML), Sanctions and Fraud regulations are moving fast. That risks outpacing the compliance resources of law & accounting firms. How can busy professionals apply a proactive playbook, whilst grappling with regulation designed mainly for banks?
This session will take an in-depth look at some of these new compliance frontiers:
- 'Failure to prevent' fraud or economic crime offences — interaction and intrusion into legal practice;
- Transparency of legal persons and legal arrangements;
- Source of funds/Source of wealth in AML investigations;
- And financial sanctions evasion and assistance problems
Session / Workshop Chair(s)
| Bradley Henry | Blank Rome, New York, New York, USA; Co-Chair, Anti-Money Laundering and Sanctions Expert Subcommittee |
| Gary Hughes | Britomart Chambers, Auckland, New Zealand; Co-Chair, Anti-Money Laundering and Sanctions Expert Subcommittee |
| Paddy Oliver | AML Experts, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Vice Chair, Anti-Money Laundering and Sanctions Expert Subcommittee |
Speakers
| Jane Hunter | Price Forbes, London, England; Secretary, Regulation of Lawyers Committee |
| Nadia Leach-Talsi | Sumitomo Electric Finance UK Limited, London, England; Member, Anti-Money Laundering and Sanctions Expert Subcommittee |
| Hasan Mandviwalla | Mandviwalla & Zafar, Karachi, Pakistan; Scholarship Officer, Young Lawyers' Committee |
| Daisuke Takahashi | Shinwa Law, Tokyo, Japan; Diversity and Inclusion Officer, Regulation of Lawyers Committee |