KPMG Law in Australia‘s cyber, privacy and digital data law team is praised for its ’wide range of expertise‘, supporting a range of private and public sector clients in developing incident response plans, managing policy reform and ensuring regulatory compliance. Veronica Scott leads the team from Melbourne, bringing experience in privacy, information security, and data ethics to clients across a range of industry sectors including the education, healthcare, mining and technology industries.
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Testimonials
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- 'Great people with a wide range of expertise.'
- 'Veronica Scott is excellent.'
- 'A 'whole team' approach to supporting the assessment of a cyber incident along with relevant legal expertise to advice on both regulatory obligations and other stakeholder responses.'
- 'Veronica Scott and the team worked together to provide seamless support - we never felt that their were any gaps in responsibility, who was doing what, when etc.'
Key clients
- EnergyAustralia
- MMG Limited
- Epilepsy Foundation
- Adventist HealthCare Ltd
- Bega Cheese
- Monash University
- Medibank Private
- Department of Treasury
- Global EverGreening Alliance
- Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman
Work highlights
- Retained to provide expert legal services to EnergyAustralia across its technology and cyber agenda which impacts on all areas of the business – valued in excess of A$1bn.
- Advised MMG on a multi-jurisdictional Digital Roadmap project which impacted on the entire MMG Ltd business with an operating income of circa A$3bn plus.
- Advised Medibank’s Privacy and Data Protection legal team since 2019, supporting all aspects of the business to embed privacy, cyber and data protection and provided key secondment support to the Privacy and Data Protection Legal team.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Veronica Scott