Regulatory

Sky Discovery supports lawyers in Australia working on regulatory matters involving a wide range of regulatory and quasi-regulatory bodies, like Commissions of Inquiry. Matters are broad and diverse, covering both civil and criminal penalties across financial services, privacy, corporate conduct, cyber, and tax, amongst many others

The current regulatory landscape is widening with an increase in the number of regulators and their respective powers. As a result, regulated entities are required to not only reactively respond to regulatory requests within very specific time frames and in very specific formats, but to take proactive steps to prepare for such requests.

Navigating the tight timeframes and expanding regimes is further complicated by the exponential increase in the volume and type of data and documents being created and managed by regulated entities. Certain regulators acknowledge the challenge faced by lawyers responding to notices or complying with regulatory requirements but expect that lawyers will adopt best practice eDiscovery workflows to ensure timely and accurate compliance.

Sky Discovery is your eDiscovery partner for regulatory matters. Our expert team of lawyers and technologists work in partnership with you and your team to ensure the data and document management process runs seamlessly from the moment a regulatory matter arises through to the day that it is resolved using solutions that are built for speed and accuracy.

We can assist you to:

• Prepare for any potential regulatory request and begin the technical processes prior to receipt

• Navigate and comply with the relevant regulator’s technical response requirements

• Negotiate any variations to submission protocols that govern the use of technology in the response

• Locate and collect relevant data from various systems in a defensible manner

• Guide you on the technological processes and systems that will best assist your regulatory review workflow

• Cull irrelevant documents and duplicates from the dataset and focus on critical information

• Deploy advanced technology to improve the speed and accuracy of document review

• Produce a response to the regulator compliant with their technical response requirements

• Prepare for any subsequent regulatory requests or hearings

As regulatory matter specialists we continually invest in R&D and best practice so we can advise our partners with confidence. These insights culminate in helpful resources for lawyers and decision-makers.