AdvertisementBusinessCompaniesWhistleblowers KPMG chair-elect admits to sending ‘naive, embarrassing and wrong’ email Colin Kruger Updated August 10, 2026 — 6:30pm ,first published 3:49pm Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. “However, with what I know now, my email was naive, embarrassing and wrong on every level,” Ebeid wrote. AdvertisementThe legal documents were the reports from two law firms, Allens and Ashurst, and relate to their work on the whistleblower complaints. At the committee’s public hearing last month the law firm described its work for KPMG as legal advice. Ashurst and Allens, two of Australia’s largest law firms, declined to comment.