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Risk Advisory

Implementing legal advice and requirements into your operations to achieve compliance, safeguard against risks and promote business success.

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Businesses are facing major challenges, including how to achieve sustainability, work with rapidly evolving technology that brings both opportunities and risks, as well as compliance with changing laws and regulations, while working towards achieving strategic plans, and meeting shareholder and consumer expectations.

We understand clients need more than legal advice – they need holistic solutions to navigate the complexities of conducting businesses globally, to help reduce risk and promote business performance and success.

Our global teams of consulting, legal and Ashurst Advance professionals work side by side to deliver a seamless service, bringing together the technical expertise and critical thinking required to operationalise laws and regulations. Our multi-dimensional service gives you the insights for successful business performance. We advise on the design and implementation of compliance and risk frameworks and operating models, leveraging digital and technology innovation for improved risk detection, prevention and management. We also advise on customer remediation programmes and deal risks, as well as change and transformation programmes. Our clients include major financial services institutions, blue-chip corporates and government organisations.

Unique, seamless legal-led advisory

Commercial end-to-end solutions for complex risk and regulatory issues through bringing together Ashurst's deep legal, risk, technology and operational expertise.

Relentlessly client focused

We take the time to understand each client's commercial drivers, challenges and ambitions so that we can tailor holistic outcomes for each client.

Digitally innovative solutions

We work seamlessly with our Ashurst Advance team to leverage the latest in digital tools and process design to help ensure the highest levels of quality and efficiency.

How we can help : our areas of focus

  • Conduct and accountability

    Providing advice on the design and implementation frameworks, including updating processes, controls, monitoring and reporting.

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  • Data and analytics

    Working with you to understand your use of data and data risk by designing, building and deploying data-driven solutions to help identify, manage and report on risk; maintain compliance and identify areas of non-compliance; and solve regulatory challenges.

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  • Financial crime

    The financial sector and other designated businesses are required to identify and assess their level of risk regarding money laundering and terrorism financing and develop programmes to address it.

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  • Governance

    Advising on risk frameworks, approach to 3LOD, internal and external reporting, setting and alignment of risk appetite, culture, management practices and Board governance.

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  • Infrastructure, Places and Capital Projects

    The networks, systems and infrastructure that power, move and create communities are evolving at pace within a competitive and volatile global environment.

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  • M&A Deal Support

    Pre-deal work is vital for a transaction to be effectively executed. Our M&A Lifecycle Solution brings our Legal, Risk Advisory and NewLaw expertise to execute end-to-end, high quality transactions and post-transaction harmonisation. We deliver comprehensive, cross-referenced risk and compliance due diligence across the following domains:

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  • Managed services

    Providing commercial, end-to-end solutions to complex risk and regulatory issues by bringing together Ashurst's deep legal, risk, technology and operational expertise.

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  • Operational and third party risk modernisation

    Working with you to leverage risk management to help to successfully execute strategy, delivering end-to-end framework reviews, assess outcomes against stated objectives, identify uplift opportunities and conduct capability assessments.

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  • Operating model

    Advising on operating model redesign, enterprise and business models, strategy, technology and risk frameworks across borders and industries.

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  • Privacy and data

    The integrity and privacy of data are at risk not only from external sources such as cyber-attacks, ransomware and malicious emails, but internal sources, for example, through accidental sharing of data by employees or by granting too wide access to data.

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  • Regulatory risk and enforcements

    Providing regulatory change design and implementation advice and support, including practical ways to control and monitor regulatory obligations, responding to notices, operationalising requirements and preparing for reviews by independent experts through "dry runs".

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  • Remediation

    Advising on design, assessment, operationalisation and delivery of customer remediation programmes that meet regulatory and key stakeholder expectations.

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  • Sustainability and ESG

    Taking a strategic approach to assessing the threats and opportunities driven by the growing importance of social license and environmental custodianship.

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  • Technology and Cyber: Prepare Respond Recover

    Evaluating the effectiveness and efficiencies of cybersecurity and resilience and addressing strategic and tactical risks to improve technology related risk profiles

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  • Transformation

    Helping you navigate change and transformation programmes by providing independent oversight and assurance aiming to ensure risks are minimised and to support successful delivery to achieve objectives.

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A generational change in privacy regulation in Australia

We draw on Ashurst's combined legal and risk advisory expertise to help organisations keep pace with the evolving Privacy Act reforms and the actions they can take to position themselves for success.

Learn more about privacy reform in Australia
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Podcasts

Legal Outlook podcasts

Nisha Sanghani discusses the implications of changes to Provision 29 of the UK Corporate Governance Code for regulated organisations with Ashurst's Will Chalk and ICAEW governance lead Peter van Veen.

Listen to "Governance & Compliance episode 2"

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