Polly Miles
Solicitor & Senior Manager, Regulatory & Commercial Disputes, PwC United Kingdom
Polly prides herself on providing her clients with sound, forward-thinking and tailored advice in relation to their financial crime compliance, governance and due diligence frameworks. Her work particularly focuses on modern slavery, anti-money laundering, anti-bribery and corruption controls and fraud prevention.
Every client has their own unique regulatory and legal risk profile. With the increasing regulation, particularly in the realm of ESG and non-financial reporting, the need to ensure a robust, tailored and comprehensive compliance framework for all businesses is greater than ever.
"Polly is equipped with the knowledge and skillset to advise clients on how to enhance their compliance framework in written form and in their implementation through the education of key stakeholders and suitable capabilities and resource."
Polly advises clients across all sectors on their compliance with the UK’s Modern Slavery Act, Criminal Finances Act, Money Laundering Regulations and Bribery Act. The projects she has led on typically focus on compliance reviews, impact and risk assessment workshops, creation of e-learn technology training, benchmarking exercises to identify market norm and industry best practice, advising on the implementation of proportionate policies and procedures and building transparency and ethical supply chain relations, both upstream and downstream.
"Polly is the UK’s lead legal advisor for corporate compliance with the UK’s Modern Slavery Act and supply chain transparency and management."
Throughout her career to date she has worked on several investigations and regulatory matters representing clients on a number of multi-jurisdictional investigations involving UK and international regulators such as HM Treasury, HMRC, the Financial Ombudsman Service and the Financial Conduct Authority. These investigations have included those initiated by suspicions of or allegations of mis-selling, fraud, bribery and tax evasion. During these investigations Polly has assisted clients in the design, implementation and monitoring of enhanced internal compliance systems.
