About Daniel Taha
Daniel specialises in managing regulatory investigations and enforcement matters. He has extensive experience with regulatory investigations and enforcement, especially with AUSTRAC and ASIC, and is recognised for advising on some of Australia's most significant and complex regulatory matters. His deep technical knowledge of the laws regulators enforce, particularly the AML/CTF and financial services laws, combined with direct enforcement experience and the ability to support clients from advisory through to enforcement response and remediation, enables him to deliver a distinctive full-service practice.
Daniel's key matters include advising:
- RAMS Financial Group in civil penalty proceedings ASIC commenced alleging breaches of the consumer credit laws
- Crown Resorts Limited in the Victorian and Western Australian Royal Commissions, civil penalty proceedings AUSTRAC commenced alleging breaches of the AML/CTF laws, and its associated financial crime uplift program
- Westpac in civil penalty proceedings AUSTRAC commenced alleging breaches of the AML/CTF laws, and its associated financial crime uplift program
- Bank of Queensland in negotiating enforceable undertakings with AUSTRAC and APRA, and its associated financial crime uplift program
- bet365 Australia in negotiating an enforceable undertaking with AUSTRAC
- multiple entities in ASIC investigations regarding compliance with credit laws, financial services laws and general corporate laws (including financial reporting obligations)
- multiple financial services and gaming entities in AUSTRAC investigations regarding compliance with AML/CTF laws
- multiple financial services entities on compliance assessments undertaken by AUSTRAC
- a domestic bank on responding to the findings arising from a compliance assessment a foreign regulator undertook in relation to its compliance with AML/CTF laws in the relevant jurisdiction
- multiple entities on the AML/CTF laws, including AML/CTF program development and uplift, compliance remediation, regulator engagement, and exemption applications
- multiple entities on managing and responding to customer exits, scams and complaints
- a domestic bank on the scams prevention framework
- multiple entities on internal and regulatory investigations concerning suspected insider trading
- multiple entities on governance structures and arrangements
- multiple entities on the Financial Accountability Regime