Here to help

We offer a wide range of compliance services with engagement plans designed for investment-backed and ambitious, scaling businesses.

  • Build trust

    Stakeholders are becoming increasingly sophisticated and more likely to expect assurance that you are handling data safely and compliantly

  • Add value

    Win deals faster, secure enterprise customers, navigate funding rounds and increase enterprise value by being able to demonstrate good information governance

  • Increase efficiency

    Streamlined information governance processes can improve productivity and reduce operational risks

  • Reduce liability

    Failing to comply with complex regulations and contracts can result in fines, fees and remediation costs, as well as management distraction

  • Reduce risk

    With an increasingly complex and real threat environment, identifying and mitigating risks associated with data handling is more important than ever

  • Improve decisions

    A good understanding of your data and risk environment can be an enabler of good decisions

Engagement models

However you engage with fivepenny, you’ll get cost effective access to experienced, pragmatic, subject matter experts.

Bright, can-do, proactive people available to support you.

  • Fixed deliverable for a defined scope, commonly used for:

    • GDPR compliance audits

    • Policy/framework reviews

    • DPIA reviews

    • Contract/data‑sharing agreement audits

  • Used to deliver a more substantial transformation, such as:

    • Overhauling privacy governance

    • Supporting high‑risk processing rollouts

    • Advising during mergers or system migrations

  • Our most typical engagement that provides continuous access for:

    • Day‑to‑day queries

    • SAR response guidance

    • Regulatory correspondence

    • Responding to incidents or breaches

    • Contract/processing agreement review

  • Especially common for mid‑market organisations that:

    • Don’t need a full‑time DPO

    • Need ongoing compliance oversight

    • Require independence from operational and executive teams (required under GDPR)

  • We provide private equity firms with portfolio assurance and both pre-emptive and acquisition due diligence services. In addition to adding value and reducing risk throughout the investment cycle at individual investment level, a portfolio wide perspective enables a better understanding of the sensitivity and maturity of their portfolio to information security and compliance externalities, and demonstrates strong governance credentials to investors.

    Typically one-off portfolio benchmarking exercises are billed to the investors, with ongoing assessment and oversight fees being paid by the portfolio companies as required.