A regulator has signalled an investigation
A regulator has issued notices, opened an inquiry, or signalled that one is coming. The board is divided on disclosure. Counsel is managing the formal process, but the matter is also a governance question, a market question, and – if it becomes public – a reputational one. Each of those moves on its own clock.
The environment
- ASIC, ACCC, APRA, or AUSTRAC inquiries and enforcement processes.
- Licensing disputes and conditions imposed on regulated businesses.
- Parliamentary and ministerial attention to a company or sector.
- Continuous disclosure questions that arrive together with the investigation itself.
The questions we work on
- How the response is sequenced across regulator, board, market, and media – and in what order.
- What posture the company takes: cooperation, contest, or something more deliberate than either.
- How privilege, disclosure, and governance obligations interact under pressure.
- Who speaks, to whom, and when – inside the company and outside it.
- How the board evidences that it took the matter seriously, from the first day.
How the firm is engaged
Corvian works alongside the company’s legal counsel and, where relevant, its communications advisers. The firm’s role is the strategic layer: holding the whole sequence, testing each step against the others, and keeping the principal’s options open as the process unfolds.
Enquiries are received directly by a principal. Conflicts are checked before any substantive discussion.