Antony
Mao
Solicitor
021331
Decision - Control of practice
Outcome: Condition
Outcome date: 5 September 2025
Published date: 14 October 2025
Firm details
Firm or organisation at time of matters giving rise to outcome
Name: Sherrards Solicitors LLP
Address(es): First Floor, 4 Beaconsfield Road, St Albans, AL1 3RD
Firm ID: 533210
Firm or organisation at date of publication
Name: Ellisons Legal LLP
Address(es): The Bath House, Le Cateau Road, Colchester, CO2 7NA
Firm ID: 533210
Outcome details
This outcome was reached by SRA decision.
Decision details
Antony John Mao's practising certificate for 2024 / 2025 is subject to the following conditions:
- Mr Mao may not act as a manager or owner of any authorised body.
- Mr Mao may not practise on his own account under regulation 10.2(a) or (b) of the SRA Authorisation of Individuals Regulations.
- Mr Mao is not to act as a compliance officer for legal practice (COLP) or a compliance officer for finance and administration (COFA) for any authorised body.
- Mr Mao is not to act as a Money Laundering Compliance Office (MLCO) or Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO) for any authorised body.
- Mr Mao does not hold or receive client money, act as a signatory to any client or office account or have the power to authorise transfers from any client or office account.
In these conditions the terms are as defined in the SRA Glossary.
Reasons/basis
The above conditions are made under rule 3.2 of the SRA Regulatory and Disciplinary Procedure Rules, which states that at any stage an authorised decision maker may, pending a final decision by the SRA or the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal, impose interim conditions on the practising certificate of a solicitor. We are satisfied that these conditions are necessary in the public interest or for the protection of the public.