About Bond Solicitors
Bond Solicitors specialises in dealing with business matters, both opportunities and problems. These can be either problems that a business has or problems that, as a member of the public, you have with a business or other individuals.
Our practice is client focused and result centred. We pride ourselves on being able to provide clients with cost effective, practical solutions to their legal issues. In addition we are able to provide a multi-disciplinary approach to problems as many of our professional staff and specialist consultants are multi-qualified. The firm has a long established relationship with Bond Associates Limited, a firm of investigative accountants, that has specialised over many years in the financial aspects of crime and civil disputes. It is this rigour of approach that sets Bond Solicitors apart from a purely general practice and means that we are well equipped to resolve the problems and challenges faced by our clients. The scope of our practice is demonstrated by the range of services described in About us.
Services
We are experts on Money laundering, detection and prevention: Monica Bond wrote the first Accountants Digest on Money laundering for the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales back in 1994 and has long been an acknowledged expert on Anti-Money Laundering (AML) regulations since then. She has created systems for a number of banks and lectured extensively throughout the world. As a lawyer, Monica has reviewed bank systems and the transactions of high risk clients and her recommendations have created new safeguards in a number of major financial institutions.
Bond Solicitors has unique strengths and experience in the civil remedies of business crime through more than twenty years experience in this area. The legal and regulatory aspects of business are becoming ever more complex. The grey area where civil fraud, regulatory procedures and criminal investigation overlap is increasing. Individuals and businesses can be either victims of crime or on the wrong side of the law, without knowing they were even at risk. Having different sets of lawyers that specialise in the various areas of bribery, tax, competition, fraud, sanctions-related issues, market abuse, directors' disqualification and beyond can be a complex and costly process and can add to the strain of dealing with the issues.
At Bond Solicitors we are experts in resolving commercial disputes. Many disputes can be resolved through sensible communication between the parties, with the lawyers acting as intermediaries. As a firm we have reached successful financial settlements in this manner and naturally this is a lower cost solution than mediation, arbitration or commercial civil litigation. On other occasions, despite our best efforts, matters go to Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), which may be mediation or arbitration, and provided there is goodwill, we find that this will normally resolve disputes. Naturally we are used to seeking settlements by mediation. Sometimes however disputes become so intractable that they can only be resolved by commercial civil litigation.
Every business and every business transaction is confronted by risk. At Bond Solicitors we are used to advising clients on how to minimise risk or reduce the risk of an existing business or new business opportunities. In the UK we have many regulated sectors: these can be either business sectors such as banking or financial services for example or professional activities such as practising as a solicitor or an accountant where both individuals and firms are subject to strict regulatory processes. We can assist both companies and individuals in these areas. We specialise in financial services regulation, probably the most regulated area in UK business.
