ABOUT
Welcome to Owl Advisory by Mallesons, your experts in Compliance & Governance Risk
Navigating the complex landscape of compliance and governance risk requires a trusted partner.
Owl Advisory by Mallesons, hatched from Mallesons' top-tier Corporate Governance Advisory practice, is dedicated to addressing your needs in the management of governance and compliance risks.
Owl Advisory combines world-class risk management principles, climate science and digital technologies together with Mallesons’ legal advice.
This unique integration sets us apart in the market. Contact us today for tailored solutions for your risk and compliance challenges.

SERVICES
A multi-disciplinary service to help establish reliable compliance and governance systems that prevent problems and embed a compliance culture.
Compliance
Your comprehensive compliance advisory service
Guidance on policies, independent control assessments, regulatory attestations, training, breach reporting, and the development of tools and culture that promotes early identification of compliance gaps and failures.
Regulatory Implementation
Building regulation into your ‘everyday’
Manage regulatory change and remediation projects, mapping regulatory obligations to processes, risks, and controls and regulatory horizon tracking.
Climate
Expertise
Supporting clients with climate risk and reporting
Expertise in climate science, risk, and reporting to assist you in understanding climate science, meeting regulatory climate obligations and taking action to transition to a resilient low carbon future.
Governance Risk & Issue Management
Helping you manage issues as they arise
Through a combined service with Mallesons specialist legal practices, we assist you in navigating interactions with regulators, complete regulatory investigations, manage whistle-blower disclosure, compliance systems for employment law governance, activate crisis management and provide board advisory services.
HOLOCENTRIC CONNECT, WITH OWL ADVISORY
Owl Advisory is partnering with Holocentric to offer Holocentric Connect, with Owl Advisory, a digital obligations management platform.

How is your organisation managing the growing complexity of obligations management and keeping pace with horizon scanning? We know it’s a lot to manage and that organisations are looking for innovative solutions.
Holocentric Connect, with Owl Advisory is our obligations management regtech service where we provide you tailored obligations data and regular horizon scanning services, all housed on our digital obligations management platform.
Owl Advisory has chosen to partner with Holocentric's proven digital platform, already trusted by leading organisations across sectors including finance, federal and state government, health, transport, utilities, and infrastructure.
With Holocentric Connect, with Owl Advisory, your organisation can confidently navigate the complexities of regulatory compliance, ensuring a proactive, risk-based approach to obligations management that enhances transparency, efficiency, and accountability.

Accountability
Supports decentralised management of obligations, promoting accountability and ownership throughout your organisation.

Robust Obligations Management
Demonstrate your commitment to compliance with auditable obligations written in plain English.

User friendly digital solution
A digitised, scalable cloud-based platform, enjoy a user-friendly interface designed for simplicity.
Risk Mitigation
Early identification of control gaps against key obligations and critical processes.


Streamlined Data Management
Delivers business-ready compliance insights through a standardized data model
OUR WORK
How we're supporting our clients with governance, compliance and climate.
Compliance policy uplift
Owl Advisory is assisting an AFS licensee with a wholesale refresh and consolidation of its compliance policies and procedures.
This includes preparing a traded risk management framework and aligning the associated business procedures to enable effective implementation with enhanced governance, processes, and controls.
For an AFS Licensee
In recent years, Australia's corporate governance framework has undergone rapid development and transformation to align with evolving interests in the corporate sector. This has been accompanied by amendments to the regulatory landscape, aimed at better suiting these changing interests. For a detailed overview of what you can expect in this space, please refer to our regulatory tracker.

Owl Advisory by Mallesons provides an allied multi-disciplinary advisory service for the benefit of Mallesons’ more than 500 financial services sector clients.
TEAM
Dedication. Expertise. Passion.
Owl Advisory by Mallesons has a dedicated team of experts to help establish reliable compliance and governance systems that prevent problems and embed a compliance culture. Owl Advisory by Mallesons will also draw upon the full expertise of Mallesons’ Financial Regulation and Dispute Resolution practices to assist with regulatory interpretation, investigation, reviews and enforcement and Mallesons’ Employee Relations and Safety practice to manage employment and remuneration issues and whistle blower disclosures.

Partner, Mallesons and Director, Owl Advisory
Head of Compliance and Governance Risk Advisory
Tim Bednall
Tim is one of Australia’s pre-eminent corporate advisors and the Head of Mallesons’ Corporate Governance practice. Tim regularly guides both boards and senior executives through transformation periods in their businesses. Tim’s clients appreciate his pragmatic and straightforward approach, combined with his unrivalled expertise navigating complex regulatory landscapes. Tim currently sits on the boards of Amplitude Energy, Perpetual Equity Investment Company, and the National Portrait Gallery Foundation.

General Manager
Head of Compliance Advisory
Ngaire Willis
Ngaire is a pragmatic, results‑focused risk and compliance leader with more than 20 years’ experience designing, implementing and overseeing robust risk management frameworks across complex financial services environments. She brings a collaborative and commercially minded approach, working closely with clients to develop practical, fit‑for‑purpose and sustainable solutions. Previously the Global Head of Compliance for the Investment Banking division of a global bank, Ngaire is known for building trusted relationships and translating regulatory and risk requirements into clear, actionable strategies that deliver measurable outcomes.

Senior Compliance Adviser
Cecilia Carter
Cecilia is passionate about delivering practical and focused solutions that help organisations better serve their customers and clients while fulfilling their regulatory obligations. She has led and supported engagements to uplift compliance frameworks and strengthen operational resilience, primarily across the financial services and energy sectors. Cecilia specialises in financial crime compliance, bringing subject matter expertise developed across both Sydney and London, and supports clients to navigate complex regulatory environments with clear, actionable outcomes.

Senior Sustainability Adviser
Andrew Cameron
Andrew has over 25 years of international experience in environmental management, focusing on ESG and climate reporting, decarbonisation strategies, and impact assessment across various sectors. He has a strong record of integrating corporate sustainability with governance and risk management. Passionate about enhancing ESG performance and responsible investment, he has held significant roles, including Environment Manager for the Basrah Gas Company (Shell JV), where he led a major GHG abatement program and secured Iraq’s first IFC/World Bank Green Loan.
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Special Counsel
Governance, Mallesons
Emma Newnham
Emma sits across Mallesons' Corporate Governance, Climate and ESG, and Mergers and Acquisitions teams. She advises many of Australia’s largest listed companies, as well as a range of unlisted and not-for-profit entities, across the different stages of their corporate journeys. She specialises in applying Australia’s corporate and securities laws, and best practice governance principles, in the climate and ESG context.

Special Counsel
Governance, Mallesons
Yiwen Chen
Yiwen is a Special Counsel with extensive experience advising boards and senior management across a range of corporate governance, regulatory, executive remuneration and compliance issues. Yiwen is well known in the market for providing practical advice, delivered with a broader regard for market practice and commercial imperatives. Yiwen’s recent experience includes advising on complex board independence issues, corporate governance issues, executive remuneration arrangements and the implementation of the Financial Accountability Regime for a range of clients.

Solicitor
Governance, Mallesons
Jack Wheatstone
Jack is a solicitor working across Mallesons' Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation practices. Jack has experience assisting boards, executives, and financial institutions navigate Australia’s complex and ever-evolving regulatory landscape. Jack’s experience has seen him regularly assist in regulatory compliance advice relating to the Corporations Act, Banking Act, Privacy Act, AML/CTF Act and Autonomous Sanctions Act and advising on requirements for bodies such as APRA, ASIC, AUSTRAC and the OAIC through a variety of regimes, including the APRA prudential standards, continuous disclosure, and financial accountability regimes.

Compliance Consultant
Governance, Mallesons
Vinod Karunasinghe
Vinod is a Compliance Consultant who supports clients on governance, risk and compliance matters, including regulatory obligations management and compliance framework initiatives. Drawing on experience in financial services regulation, he assists organisations in interpreting complex legal and regulatory requirements and translating them into practical compliance outcomes.
Mallesons partners and lawyers assisting Owl Advisory generally do so as part of their role as Mallesons partners and lawyers. Owl Advisory compliance risk advisors are employed or retained by a Mallesons-owned company.
Owl Advisory Pty Ltd (ACN 672 547 027) trading as Owl Advisory by Mallesons


