First comes the corporate scandal, then comes the lawyers. To cauterize the wound, apportion blame and give an impression of rigor and independence as regulators, the media and shareholders are beginning to exert pressure.

The demand for legal investigations when a scandal breaks out – such as at PwC, WiseTech, ANZ and Mineral Resources, to name a few recent ones – is driven more by whistleblower reforms, changing social values ​​and higher governance expectations corporate.

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