Insights
Analysis, not commentary.
Periodic writing from the firm’s principals on regulatory enforcement, disputes, governance, and negotiation. Published when there is something specific to say.
Regulatory · Governance · Dispute Strategy
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Regulatory
May 2026AUSTRAC's Enforcement Posture and the AML/CTF Documentary Architecture
Analysis of AUSTRAC's May 2026 enforcement investigation into Tabcorp and what the regulator's posture signals for the documentary architecture of AML/CTF governance across regulated entities.
William O'Halloran, Principal
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Regulatory
March 2026Climate disclosure and the new architecture of director inquiry
How mandatory climate reporting under ASRS S2 creates a director-duty problem, and what proper board inquiry on climate disclosures looks like in practice across assumptions, governance interfaces and decision records.
William O'Halloran, Principal
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Governance
February 2026Board Governance in an Era of Heightened Scrutiny
An overview of how rising regulatory expectations, shareholder activism and public accountability are reshaping the role of corporate boards, and why governance frameworks function as strategic infrastructure rather than compliance mechanisms.
Alexander Gunning, Associate
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Regulatory
November 2025Gatekeeper Enforcement and the Architecture of Board Inquiry
Why ASIC's gatekeeper enforcement posture makes the board's exposure documentary rather than financial, and how board paper, minute, escalation and reliance architecture determines whether the record demonstrates inquiry or reliance.
William O'Halloran, Principal
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Dispute Strategy
September 2025The Rising Wave of Founder and Shareholder Disputes
Why disputes between founders, investors and boards are becoming more common as companies scale, the conditions under which strategic disagreement escalates into conflict, and how governance disputes can be managed strategically.
Alexander Gunning, Associate
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Regulatory
July 2025After the 2021 fault element: the disclosure-claim defence reset
How the 2021 fault amendments to the continuous disclosure regime reshaped securities-claim pleading, why the contemporaneous record now matters more rather than less, and what a defence-side redesign of the disclosure-decision architecture involves.
William O'Halloran, Principal
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Regulatory
June 2025Sequencing in a public regulatory investigation
Why the order of operations across regulator engagement, privilege design, board notification, disclosure assessment, market communication and media positioning is itself the strategy in a public regulatory investigation.
William O'Halloran, Principal