The Australian Securities and Investments Commission was investigating Macquarie’s handling of the Nuix IPO when the then treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, appointed its former chief executive Nicholas Moore to lead an independent review into the “effectiveness and capability” of the regulator.
ASIC’s investigation into how Macquarie Capital handled conflicts of interest in the December 2020 IPO had been under way for four months when Mr Moore was appointed chairman of the Financial Regulator Assessment Authority in September 2021.