Colette Best

Director of Anti-Money Laundering, Kingsley Napley. Colette specialises in the provision of anti-money laundering and financial crime advice to regulated professionals and entities. Before joining Kingsley Napley in 2024, she was a senior director at the Solicitors Regulation Authority. Having joined the policy team in 2015, Colette became the SRA's first Director of AML in 2019. She is a former chair of the Legal Sector Affinity Group (LSAG), the main guidance-setting group for UK legal services and is a former chair of the AML Supervisors Forum, the government's main forum for AML discussion. Colette speaks regularly on AML and financial crime matters at international conferences.