Providing
clarity
At McArthur Atkinson, we specialise in providing high-calibre legal regulatory, risk and compliance advice to the world’s leading law firms.
Our clients are top-tier UK, international and US law firms navigating complex legal, regulatory, and commercial landscapes in the UK. We offer advisory services designed to simplify the most intricate issues, enabling our clients to make informed, confident and commercially sound decisions. With many years of experience in legal, regulatory and risk management our approach is to solve problems by providing our technical expertise helping our clients understand the risks at hand whilst bringing our commercial experience to the fore to recognise opportunities.
How we help you…
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Our advice is clear, concise, and practical, helping you navigate complex regulations with confidence and ease.
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We align legal and regulatory guidance with your business goals, offering proportionate, actionable solutions that work in the real world.
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We take time to understand your priorities and internal dynamics, offering support that feels in-house, not external.
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Whether it’s through tailored training, document drafting, or audit insights, we focus on making your processes smoother and saving you time.
Services we offer
We advise on all aspects of law firm regulation, including SRA compliance, financial crime, sanctions, anti-bribery, tax evasion, fraud, and data protection. We support Compliance Officers and offer practical, commercially-focused guidance.
We conduct audits for money laundering, anti-fraud, and other compliance areas, offering actionable improvements to save time and ensure regulatory adherence across your business.
We carry out independent investigations, define the scope with you, and provide reports with findings and recommended actions.
We review, update, or draft firm-wide documents: policies, procedures, risk assessments, and more ensuring they're compliant and publication-ready.
We offer customisable training - from short webinars to full-day sessions - delivered online or in person, tailored to your regulatory and compliance needs.
If you have any other requirements, please contact us and we will work with you to find the solution you need.
Our values are simple - they are to provide clarity, commerciality and partnership in everything that we do. Whether that’s how we explain the legal risks and opportunities, how we write up our advice and our emails to you, or how we discuss business. We operate to make your lives easier, so we will provide clarity in every touchpoint you have with us.
Our values
Top 100 law firm
“Bex is our go-to 'phone a friend' for complex and thorny regulatory issues – her super responsiveness and expertise in risk and compliance is matched by a rare ability to balance regulatory rigour with commercial pragmatism. Having previously been in a GC role in a law firm, she understands the operational pressures we face, while also ensuring we are compliant, and her advice is always both practical and proportionate.”
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