Paul Curby

Team Member

Paul Curby

Partner

Paul is the founding partner of CurbyMcLintock and a trusted advisor in governance, fraud, corruption, and workplace conduct, with over 35 years’ experience in law enforcement, government, legal and the corporate sector.

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A Certified Fraud Examiner, Paul specialises in resolving high-impact matters and relieving pressure on senior leaders by managing crises discreetly. He advises boards, organisations, and government across Australia, Asia, and Europe, delivering practical, candid solutions to complex organisational risks.

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His professional services career began in 2000, where he took up a joint founding role in establishing a fraud & forensic advisory practice for EY accounting firm in Singapore. With fraud prevention front of mind, he founded a boutique fraud risk advisory business in Singapore. His work was mainly for clients in banking as well as financial shared service centres. Paul’s work included extensive travel throughout North & South Asia and Europe on cross border investigative, due diligence and fraud & corruption risk management assignments.

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Paul moved back to Australia in 2012 and was a partner with Korda Mentha Forensic before establishing CurbyMcLintock in 2017. He has worked on commissions of inquiry including the recent Inquiry conducted by the Honourable P A Bergin SC into the Crown Casino, in Sydney, established by the NSW Independent Liquor and Gaming Authority.

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Drawing upon extensive experience, he prides himself on providing candid advice to help his clients better navigate options and provide solutions to deal with crises.

Areas of Specialisation

Forensic services, Recovery services, Anti-Corruption, Fraud risk & prevention services, Criminal and Civil investigations, Litigation Support, Fraud detection and data analytics.

Industry Experience

Government, financial services, manufacturing, & FMCG, insurance, airline & transportation, construction, racing and gaming.

Snapshot of Experience

Led an investigation involving procurement fraud and collusion, as well as unauthorised disposal of company assets involving a company director, a customer and a third party. Our work resulted in a negotiated settlement and departure of the director.

Appointed an Officer and also a Steward with GRNSW. Led investigations into corruption and disciplinary matters involving participants in greyhound racing.

Part of a team that conducted investigations into the awarding of two ICT contracts involving $100’sM. Allegations that undue influence was applied and procurement processes tailored to ensure the engagement of preferred suppliers, allegations of potential corrupt conduct and collusion with a third-party intermediary to secure the contracts.

Led and conducted numerous investigations for corporate (including under Legal Professional Privilege), state & federal governments into complaints involving bullying & harassment, sexual harassment, discrimination.

Led numerous Fraud Risk Management engagements for financial institutions, Oil & Gas as well as NGO’s., identifying ways to defraud organisations and providing strategies to mitigate risk. Geography of work including Australia, Asia, Papua New Guinea and Europe.

Conducted numerous anti-corruption, background due diligence assignments for a multilateral development bank in Asia.

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