Tranche 2 AML/CTF Software for
Law Firms
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What Makes Tranche 2 Hard for Law Firms
Privilege boundaries, trust accounts, complex structures, and high-value transactions — compliance challenges unique to legal practice.
Legal Professional Privilege
Law firms must navigate the tension between AML/CTF disclosure obligations and legal professional privilege. Compliance workflows need to respect privilege boundaries while still meeting regulatory requirements — a challenge that generic compliance tools don't address.
Trust Account Complexity
Solicitors' trust accounts handle significant funds across multiple matters. Identifying reportable transactions, managing TTR obligations for cash receipts, and maintaining evidence trails across trust account movements adds a layer of compliance complexity unique to legal practice.
Complex Client Structures
Law firms regularly act for clients with multi-layered corporate structures, trusts, and international entities. Identifying beneficial owners and controllers across these arrangements requires systematic processes and thorough documentation.
High-Value Transactions
Property settlements, commercial acquisitions, and cross-border transactions frequently involve substantial sums. High-value matters attract greater regulatory scrutiny and often trigger enhanced due diligence requirements.
How Sentine Helps
Workflows designed for the unique compliance challenges facing legal practices under Tranche 2.
Privilege-Aware Workflows
Sentine's compliance workflows are designed with legal professional privilege in mind. The platform helps you document which matters involve privileged communications and structures evidence capture to respect privilege boundaries — while still meeting your AML/CTF obligations.
- Privilege flags on matter records to guide compliance workflow behaviour
- Evidence capture designed to respect privilege boundaries
- Structured documentation of privilege considerations in compliance decisions
- Separate handling for matters where privilege and compliance obligations intersect
Trust Account Integration
Track compliance obligations arising from trust account transactions. When cash receipts approach the $10,000 TTR threshold, Sentine's structured workflow ensures your team captures and reports the transaction — with all the evidence linked back to the relevant matter.
- TTR capture workflow for trust account cash receipts ≥ $10,000
- Matter-linked transaction records for compliance evidence
- Structured reporting workflows for trust account activity
- Evidence trails connecting trust account movements to specific matters
Entity Structure Mapping
Systematically map complex client structures — companies, trusts, partnerships, and their interrelationships. Identify beneficial owners and controllers with a guided workflow that documents your reasoning at every step, even when information is difficult to obtain.
- Map multi-layered corporate and trust structures
- Identify beneficial owners using 25% ownership threshold tracking
- Record controllers, trustees, directors, and appointors
- Document reasoning when ownership information cannot be obtained
Matter-First Compliance
Each client engagement becomes its own compliance unit. Whether it's a property conveyance, commercial acquisition, or trust administration, Sentine creates separate Matters with independent scoping, risk assessment, and evidence trails — reflecting how legal practice actually works.
- Separate Matters for each designated service engagement
- Independent compliance lifecycle per engagement
- Service-specific scoping for different legal practice areas
- Full audit trail per matter, not just per client
Risk Assessment for Legal Services
Sentine's risk wizard evaluates matters across multiple risk factors relevant to legal practice — jurisdiction risk, transaction complexity, client structure, and value indicators. When high-risk indicators are present, ECDD workflows activate automatically with source of funds and source of wealth requirements.
- Risk factors calibrated for legal service engagements
- Automatic ECDD triggers for high-risk indicators
- Source of funds documentation for high-value transactions
- Senior partner approval routing for high-risk matters
Audit-Ready Evidence Packs
Generate complete, tamper-evident evidence packs for any matter at any time. Every compliance decision, verification result, and risk assessment is captured in a versioned snapshot — with configurable redaction rules that respect both regulatory requirements and privilege considerations.
- Versioned evidence packs with SHA-256 integrity hashing
- Configurable redaction rules respecting privilege boundaries
- Complete decision trail: decision, rationale, timestamp, and approver
- Export-ready snapshots for regulatory review or internal audit
Use Case: Commercial Property Acquisition
Follow a realistic legal engagement through the full Sentine workflow.
Engagement & Scoping
A client engages your firm to act on a commercial property acquisition worth $4.2 million. Your team creates a new Matter in Sentine and the scoping wizard confirms this is a designated service under Tranche 2. The purchasing entity is a proprietary company owned by a family trust, so the system flags beneficial owner identification as a required step.
Entity Mapping & Beneficial Owners
The purchasing entity has a layered structure: a proprietary company (purchaser) owned by a family trust, with a corporate trustee. Your team maps the full structure in Sentine, identifying the individual who controls the corporate trustee as a beneficial owner, plus two individual directors. Each identification decision is documented with rationale.
Identity Verification
Sentine guides your team through verification of the individual beneficial owners using safe harbour procedures. The corporate entities are verified through ABN/ASIC checks and trust deed review. All verification results — method paths, provider reference IDs, and supporting documents — are captured against the Matter.
Risk Assessment & Trust Account Monitoring
The risk wizard evaluates the Matter — the transaction value, entity structure complexity, and one director's overseas connections are assessed. The overall risk rating is documented with full rationale. When a $50,000 cash component of the deposit arrives through your trust account, Sentine prompts the TTR workflow for the amount exceeding $10,000.
Evidence Pack & Settlement
With all compliance steps complete, Sentine generates a versioned evidence pack covering every party verification, the entity structure mapping, risk assessment, and TTR record — all hashed for integrity. As the matter proceeds to settlement, any additional compliance events are captured as new evidence pack versions with a complete audit trail.
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