Rhiannon Davies
Associate
About Rhiannon
I joined Team Teal in September 2024 as an Associate and prior to this had worked in legal compliance consulting for 6 years.
My love for compliance came from being appointed as an Operations Manager at Nationwide Building Society, where I worked for 15 years prior to moving into the legal sector in 2018.
I support law firms with their risk and compliance obligations, particularly in relation to anti-money laundering. This includes policy reviews, drafting and updates, training, query support, file reviews, AML audits and content creation.
In some cases, I am engaged by law firms reactively, following a visit from their regulator, namely the Solicitors Regulation Authority in England and Wales or the Law Society of Scotland in Scotland, where they have been placed on a Compliance Plan. The work I have completed for firms has resulted in successful sign-off from Compliance Plans set by their regulator. In other cases, firms engage me proactively to ensure that should they receive a visit from the regulator in future, they can be sure that they are fully compliant with their obligations.
Expertise
My favourite areas within legal risk and compliance are AML and the SRA Standards and Regulations, helping law firms interpret these in a way that works for the individual firm.
I have worked with different sized firms to help them implement policies, controls and procedures along with an excellent compliance culture, in a practical, collaborative and enjoyable way.
I love being able to help firms and the people within them to feel like they are in control of their compliance programme, help them fix issues, support them going through regulatory enforcement and provide them with the extra woman power needed to get their compliance programme back on track and continue to make it effective.
I’ve contributed to a number of publications:
https://tealcompliance.com/regulation-21-and-ongoing-monitoring/
https://tealcompliance.com/lsag-guidance-update-april-2025/, which was subsequently published in Today’s Conveyancer.
https://www.amlsorted.com/post/austrac-s-aml-august-2025-update
https://www.amlsorted.com/post/what-a-15m-money-laundering-case-tells-us-about-the-future
Having spent 15 years with Nationwide Building Society, I gained valuable experience working within the regulatory framework of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).
Career Highlights
In 2025, I was seconded to Australia to assist with the launch of AML Sorted, the equivalent of Teal Compliance in Australia.