IBA Annual Conference Copenhagen 2026
4 Oct - 9 Oct 2026
Session information
Uber regulators: new supervisors, sanctions and shenanigans
Tuesday 6 October (1115 - 1230)
Committee(s)
Anti-Money Laundering and Sanctions Expert Subcommittee
(Lead)
IBA Legal Policy & Research Unit
Description
Professional services firms (lawyers, accountants, trustees and real estate dealers) increasingly have to report to, and face enforcement action from, general purpose financial regulators or supra-national agencies such as the new European Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AMLA). A cultural and compliance clash in the making?
Session / Workshop Chair(s)
| Bradley Henry | Blank Rome, New York, New York, USA; Chair, Anti-Money Laundering and Sanctions Expert Subcommittee |
| Gary Hughes | Britomart Chambers, Auckland, New Zealand; Co-Chair, Regulation of Lawyers Committee |
| Paddy Oliver | AML Experts, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Vice Chair, Anti-Money Laundering and Sanctions Expert Subcommittee |
Speakers
| Noah Arshinoff | Federation of Law Societies of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Member, Anti-Money Laundering and Sanctions Expert Subcommittee |
| Colette Best | Kingsley Napley LLP, London, England; Member, Anti-Money Laundering and Sanctions Expert Subcommittee |
| Jane Hunter | Price Forbes, London, England |
| Hasan Mandviwalla | Mandviwalla & Zafar, Karachi, Pakistan; Scholarship Officer, Young Lawyers' Committee |
| Jaspreet Nandra | Ashurst LLP, London, England; Member, Anti-Money Laundering and Sanctions Expert Subcommittee |
| Felix Obiamalu | Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit, Abuja, Nigeria |
| Daisuke Takahashi | Shinwa Law, Tokyo, Japan; Diversity and Inclusion Officer, Regulation of Lawyers Committee |