The right clarity for the situation you’re in changes what becomes possible.
Whatever you are carrying a business that has lost direction, a compliance framework that needs attention, a family situation that needs a path forward you deserve professional support from someone who will listen before they speak.
In-person appointments ·
Appointments only - Monday and Tuesday
Harrow Business Centre · 429-433 Pinner Road · North Harrow · HA1 4HN
No obligation beyond the initial conversation
Business Consultancy - London
Self-employed and feeling invisible to the right clients?
Faciliated sessions to help you find your ideal cleint, your story, your position, and your pricing. One conversations at a time.
AML Compliance - Small London Law Firms
Carrying the quiet anxiety of an AML Framework that has not been idependently examined?
Independent auidts, mock audits and file reviews
Family Law - Co-parenting - North West London
Navigating separation and looking for a path forward that works for your children:
Family law and co-parenting support that is low-conflict, child-focused, and forward-looking.
You do not have to say it out loud.
Just recognise yourself.
One of these situations brings most people to Alexander Christian. Sometimes more than one.
Business · Self-Employed · Professionals
I do good work but the right clients are not finding
me
I cannot say clearly what makes me different from others who do similar work
I started this practice with a clear sense of who it was for and somewhere along the way I lost that thread
I am undercharging and I do not know how to change it
I have nobody to think through the big decisions with
I want to be the choice, not the option
AML · Small Law Firms · MLROs
My AML framework feels more like a template than a genuine firm-specific system
I have not had an independent audit and I know I should
I am not confident that what we have on paper reflects what actually happens on files
I want to know what an auditor would find before one arrives
The enforcement figures make uncomfortable reading
The FCA transition is coming and I want to be ready
Family · Co-Parenting · NW London
I am going through separation and I do not know what my options are
My children are caught in the middle and I want that to stop
I want a resolution that does not destroy the co-parenting relationship
I need someone who will guide me through the legal process without making things worse
I want a path forward that is child-centred and low-conflict
I feel alone in this and I need someone who understands what is at stake
Business Consultancy · Sole Practitioners · Independent Professionals · Small Businesses
Spending energy reaching the wrong people.
There is a different way to approach this.
For self-employed professionals, sole traders, start-ups and small service businesses in North West London who want to think more clearly about who they serve, what they stand for, and how they communicate it.
Most independent professionals simply haven’t had a dedicated, structured space to think through the questions that shape the direction of a practice. Day‑to‑day work fills the calendar. Conversations with colleagues, networks, or advisers are valuable, but each comes with its own perspective and priorities.
What’s often missing is a space held by someone who understands the professional context, has no stake in the outcome, and can help explore these questions with clarity and without an agenda.
Client Persona Workshop
Who your ideal client is, what triggers them, what they value, and what your communication needs to say to reach them. Three hours. One or two specific, usable personas.
Storytelling for Business
The consistent narrative that makes the right people recognise immediately that you are exactly what they have been looking for.
Professional Positioning
Stop being compared. Start being sought. Who you are most distinctively for, what you stand for, how to say it consistently.
Ethical Pricing
Pricing the value you deliver to a specific person with a specific felt problem. Confident, grounded, and sustainable.
A Thinking Space
A private, confidential conversation for the decisions and difficulties you cannot examine inside the business. No agenda other than your clarity.
Initial Consultation
A paid conversation about your practice and where you are. Mutual assessment of fit. No obligation to proceed further.
What staying still costs
- Every month communicating to the wrong version of your ideal client is effort that does not compound
- Underpricing becomes the baseline and each passing month makes it harder to correct
- The decisions you are carrying alone do not get lighter. They accumulate
- The right clients continue to find you by chance rather than by choice
AML Compliance · Small Law Firms · London · MLROs · Principals
Your AML framework genuinely sound,
or adequate on paper?
For MLROs, MLCOs and principals of small law firms in London who want to know what an auditor would find before one arrives.
The SRA's AML Annual Report 2024-25 recorded 151 enforcement outcomes up from 78 the previous year. The firms caught were not rogue operators. They were ordinary practices whose frameworks were adequate on paper and inadequate in practice.
The Money Laundering Regulations 2017 require a genuinely firm-specific AML framework. Not a template with your name at the top. Not policies that exist in a folder nobody reads. A framework that works in practice, that is embedded in how the firm operates, and that you can evidence when asked.
The question every MLRO carries is not whether the framework exists. It is whether it would withstand examination. Most firms do not know the answer until the examination happens.
Independent AML Audit
Formal independent audit of your AML framework. Adequacy, effectiveness, and compliance to the standard required for regulatory purposes.
Mock AML Audit
An informal audit that goes through the rigours of the formal process giving your firm a clear picture of where attention is needed.
AML File Reviews
Review of client files against your firm's policies identifying gaps in CDD, risk assessment, and ongoing monitoring.
Staff Interviews
Assessment of how AML policies are understood and applied examining whether the framework is genuinely embedded or merely documented.
AML Workshop
Looking at the LSAG through the lens of a small practice
Initial Conversation
A paid initial conversation about your firm's current AML position and the right starting point for your situation.
What delayed attention costs
- Regulatory exposure that grows silently non-compliance does not announce itself until it is too late
- The FCA is expected to take over AML supervision of law firms from the SRA with a materially different enforcement culture
- FATF mutual evaluation is scheduled for 2027 firms with inadequate frameworks will face heightened scrutiny
- Reputational damage from an enforcement outcome that could have been prevented
Family Law · Co-Parenting · Harrow · Pinner · Northwood · NW London
Separation is not just a legal situation.
A legal solution is not always enough.
For separating parents and individuals in Harrow, Pinner, Northwood, Stanmore, Edgware and surrounding North West London who want a path forward that genuinely works for their children and for themselves.
The legal process resolves arrangements. It does not resolve the co-parenting relationship that has to work long after the proceedings end. Two parents can leave with a legally binding child arrangements order and still be unable to talk to each other about their children's school, their health, their day.
At Alexander Christian, the starting point is always the same: what is the most constructive path forward for these children, in this family, in this situation? That question leads to different answers for different families. Some need legal representation. Some need mediation. Some need co-parenting guidance before or instead of court proceedings.
The practice works across all of these approaches because no single approach is right for every situation.
The approach here is calm, low-conflict, and forward-focused. Whatever the situation, the goal is a resolution that these children can grow up in not a victory that damages the relationships they depend on.
Family Law
Divorce, financial separation, child arrangements. Legal representation and guidance through the process.
Child Arrangements
Contact, residence, prohibited steps and specific issue orders. Child-focused and constructive throughout.
Co-Parenting Support
For one co-parent - enabling them to reflect and refocus
Initial Conversation
A paid initial conversation about your firm's current AML position and the right starting point for your situation.
What delay costs when children are involved
- Every week of unresolved conflict is a week your children are carrying something they should not have to carry
- Delay rarely preserves your legal position it often erodes it
- The emotional toll of uncertainty compounds over time for every member of the family
- Resolutions reached earlier tend to hold better than those reached under pressure
Common questions
The questions before you book
What happens in the first consultation?
What does it cost?
How long is the initial consultation?
Is everything confidential?
Do you offer remote or online consultations?
How do I know if this is right for me?
I have tried other professionals before and it did not help. Why would this be different?
I am not sure I am ready yet. Is it too early to book?
WHY ALEXANDER CHRISTIAN
You Need Someone Who
Truly Understands.
"I qualified as a solicitor over thirty years ago. What thirty years of professional practice produces is not a list of credentials. It is a specific capability the ability to sit with someone in a genuinely complex situation, help them see it more clearly, and support them towards their own decision without directing it. That capability is what every service at this practice is built around."
Solicitor · LLB · LLM · LPC
Facilitation specialist · Family · Workplace · Civil · Commercial and Interpersonal
ICA trained · ACAMS trained · Independent audit specialist · MLR 2017 and LSAG 2025
Facilitation specialist · Client persona · Positioning · Storytelling · Ethical pricing · Peer support
One conversation.
The right starting point.
You don't need to have all the answers before you call. You just need to take the first step.
We offer paid initial consultations by pre-arranged appointment on Mondays and Tuesdays, in-person at our Harrow Business Centre.
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Alexander Christian
Harrow Business Centre
429-433 Pinner Road
North Harrow
Middlesex
Greater London
HA1 4HN
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Office Hours
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Important information
Regulated legal services: Alexander Christian is authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA 00444570). Family law services including divorce, financial separation, child arrangements, and associated legal work are regulated legal services provided within the firm's regulated practice. Co-parenting Workshops draw on training in interpersonal mediation.
AML compliance services: AML compliance services including Regulation 21(1)(c) independent audits, mock audits, file reviews, staff interviews and workshops. These services constitute compliance support. They do not constitute a guarantee of regulatory compliance or protection from enforcement action. Firms remain responsible for their own compliance obligations under the Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2017 and associated guidance.
Business consultancy services: Business consultancy services including client persona workshops, storytelling for business, professional positioning, ethical pricing, and peer support are not regulated legal services and do not constitute legal, financial, marketing or business advice. They are facilitation services. No specific business outcome is guaranteed or promised. These sessions provide structure, facilitation, and the possibility of clarity. What happens after a session depends entirely on the knowledge the participant brings and the action they take with what they find.
Composite illustrations used on service pages do not represent specific individuals and no specific result should be inferred from them.
General: All services are provided in person at Harrow Business Centre, 429-433 Pinner Road, North Harrow, London HA1 4HN. Meetings are held on the fourth floor. No remote services are available. An initial consultation is required before booking most services and is a paid engagement. An initial consultation does not create any obligation to proceed with further work. Fees are reviewed regularly current fees are on the fees page at alexanderchristian.co.uk/fees.
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Alexander Christian is a law firm and business consultancy based at Harrow Business Centre, 429-433 Pinner Road, North Harrow, London HA1 4HN. The practice provides business consultancy for self-employed professionals, sole traders, start-ups and small service businesses in North West London; AML compliance services including Regulation 21(1)(c) independent audits, mock audits and file reviews for small law firms in London; and family law and co-parenting services for separated parents in Harrow, Pinner, Northwood, Stanmore, Edgware, Wembley, Ruislip, Rayners Lane and surrounding North West London areas.
