Mehdi Daikh

Completed recognised Solicitor training period - Qualifying Work Experience (QWE), supporting solicitors across multiple departments.

Departments rotated into:

• Commercial Litigation
• Restructuring & Insolvency
• Commercial Real Estate
• Intellectual Property & Commercial

Experience

• Conduct legal and regulatory research to support matters, including reviewing legislation, guidance and background materials.
• Draft and review legal and supporting documentation, ensuring accuracy, clarity and compliance with established procedures.
• Assist with due diligence and document preparation for high value transactions, working with large volumes of information.
• Provided complex process mapping for various workstreams, assisting the solution delivery team with case management projects.
• Contributed to process improvement in response to the Economic Crime and Transparency Act 2023, ensuring filings and internal records were kept up to date.
• Consolidated learning resources and materials for cross-team use, supporting consistency and knowledge sharing.
• Work within established governance, confidentiality and professional standards, reinforcing risk awareness and attention to detail.

• Supported the firm's central Risk & Compliance function in a regulated legal services environment.
• Acted as the sole Compliance Analyst for a period, taking ownership of day-to-day compliance activity and supporting the team as it scaled.
• Delivered risk and compliance induction training for all new starters, alongside ad-hoc training on specific risk issues.
• Conducted file audits across all areas of the firm and supported preparation for external assessments, including Lexcel and CQS.
• Investigated internal breaches and incidents, documenting findings and maintaining central breach and staff registers.
• Performed client risk assessments and in-depth source of funds reviews, assessing documentation against internal policies and regulatory expectations.
• Handled data protection matters, including data breaches and subject access requests.
  Monitored dashboards and alerts (including Tessian and SmartSearch), maintaining watchlists and investigating flagged activity.
• Researched legal and regulatory changes affecting the firm and supported implementation through updates to internal materials.
• Responded to day-to-day risk and compliance queries from staff and supported partners on cross-department initiatives.
• Trained and supported newly hired analysts as the compliance team expanded, helping embed processes and improve consistency.

• Assisted solicitors with commercial property transactions, undertaking due diligence and drafting, in order to reach completion and post completion stages.

• Managing a caseload of residential property transactions, undertaking due diligence and drafting, in order to reach completion during busy SDLT period.

• Supported Compliance & Ethics team with KYC procedures and client onboarding.
• Assisted in regulatory monitoring and policy updates to mitigate compliance risks.
• Collaborated on cross-departmental project to develop vendor due diligence process map.