That included one alert created this month called Venice Panther, which had listed as recipients several KPMG staff involved in mergers and acquisitions. That included Sam McClure, a partner in KPMG Australias deal advisory services group.
The four companies in that alert were residential aged care outfit Japara Healthcare, which has KPMG as an auditor; military aircraft parts maker Quickstep Holdings, which again has KPMG as auditor; cloud-based human resources and payroll software company ELMO Software, whose auditor is from Deloitte; and agriculture real estate investment trust Vitalharvest, also audited by Deloitte.
A Morningstar spokeswoman told the Financial Review that while the investigation was ongoing, we believe this is an i…
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