Risk consulting
Risks, if managed properly, provide opportunities for businesses to grow sustainably and deliver value for their customers, clients and other key stakeholders, such as shareholders.
As a leading global law firm, we have a deep understanding of risk. We also understand that our clients need more than legal advice to create value and build resilience from managing risk effectively. Our Risk Consulting practice, comprising risk, compliance and industry specialists, work closely with our lawyers to deliver a combination of skills and experience that can meet the increasingly complex risk challenges facing your business.
This one-stop approach enables us to respond to your needs with a global and cross-sector solution, helping you maintain and enhance your governance, risk, compliance, financial crime and control arrangements. The integration with our legal teams means that, where appropriate, we can apply privilege and protect confidential client communication from third parties.
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What we offer you
Integrated team of lawyers, compliance professionals and ex-regulators, with a breadth of skills, practical experience and in-depth industry knowledge.
Teams tailored to the needs of each assignment, ensuring our solutions are robust, efficient and sustainable.
Cross-jurisdictional coverage, meaning we understand the challenges faced by multi-jurisdictional businesses.
Pragmatic and actionable advice geared to a clients’ individual business models, structures and risk appetite.
Our areas of work include
Advising clients across the following:
Governance
- Global accountability regime compliance
- Design and operating effectiveness of governance frameworks, escalations, MI and reporting
- Governance and lessons learned reviews to identify weaknesses, root causes and enhance processes
Conduct and culture
- Firm culture including purpose, values and cultural measurements
- Conduct risk management frameworks and customer fairness
- Design and delivery of redress and remediation schemes
Risk, compliance and controls
- Risk and compliance framework design and enhancement
- MI, reporting and oversight arrangements
- Calibration of risk management arrangements, thresholds and tolerances
Financial crime
- Calibration of risk management arrangements, thresholds and tolerances
- Anti-financial crime policies and procedures
- Financial crime control design, testing and enhancement
Operational resilience
- Operational resilience frameworks
- Crisis scenario planning and response
- Operational resilience enhancement and good practice
Our offerings
Accountability regime compliance
Authorizations and regulatory applications
Board arrangements and effectiveness
Compliance monitoring and testing
Conduct and culture reviews
Controls design and operational effectiveness
Governance, oversight and reporting
Financial crime assessments
Lessons learned reviews
Operational resilience infrastructure
Regulatory change
Regulator engagement
Regulatory investigations
Regulator-mandated reviews
Redress and remediation programs
Risk advice: Conduct, operational and regulatory
Risk assessments
Risk and compliance frameworks
Sales and post-sales handling
Training and development
Vulnerable customers
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