Regulatory, Investigations & Compliance

We advise individuals, businesses and institutions on regulatory compliance and on the investigations that follow when something goes wrong. The practice has two halves. The first is preventative: anti-money laundering policies and procedures, modern slavery and supply chain reporting for clients with international obligations, and cybersecurity readiness. The second is responsive: internal investigations into suspected misconduct, and defence work where the Independent Commission Against Corruption or another regulator has commenced an investigation.

We work with technical advisers and forensic accountants where the matter requires it, and we are used to the pace of an investigation. The period between a complaint being made and a charge being decided is often the period in which the matter is won or lost. Most of this work is confidential by its nature; what appears in the press is the small fraction that does not settle.

Where the problem concerns personal data (a breach, a doxxing campaign, or the Privacy Commissioner's Office), that work has its own practice: see Data Protection & Privacy.