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1 case
27 Feb 2025 Emirates Advocates LLPADGM: law firm Emirates Advocates loses AML registration after years without AML returns Order
The FSRA (Financial Services Regulatory Authority, the financial regulator of Abu Dhabi Global Market, ADGM) withdrew, with effect from 27 February 2025, the law firm's registration as a designated non-financial business or profession (DNFBP) for anti-money laundering purposes, which it needs to operate in ADGM. The firm had not filed its annual AML returns for 2019 to 2023 and, in the regulator's view, lacked adequate systems and controls; fines had already been imposed in 2021 (10,000 USD for the missing 2019 return) and in 2023 (26,000 USD for the missing goAML registration). The Decision Notice of 21 January 2025 was not referred to the Appeals Panel.
A law firm that persistently ignores its anti-money laundering duties risks not only fines but also its registration, and with it its business in the financial centre.
Anti-money laundering duties for law firms and other DNFBPs
- Authority / court
- Financial Services Regulatory Authority (ADGM)
- Area of law
- Money laundering and terrorist financing · Internal controls
- Legal basis
- Section 251 FSMR 2015; AML Rules 4.6.1, 15.2.1(1)(b), 15.7.1(2)(c), 15.7.2(1)(a) und (b)
- Action
- Order
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Other
- Repeat case
- yes
- FSRA Final Notice an Emirates Advocates LLP vom 27. Februar 2025 (Widerruf der DNFBP-Registrierung) Decision of an authority
- ADGM FSRA Regulatory Actions and Sanctions (Durchsetzungsliste) Enforcement database of an authority
Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Direct link