Modern Slavery Statement

Reporting Period: Financial Year 2025

Effective Date: April 2026

This Statement is published voluntarily by Ladd & Co. ("the firm") in furtherance of the principles underlying the Modern Slavery Act 2018 (Cth) (Australia) and the Modern Slavery Act 2015 (United Kingdom). The firm does not currently meet the consolidated revenue threshold at which reporting under either Act is mandatory; nevertheless, the firm considers it appropriate to publish this Statement in recognition of the seriousness of modern slavery and human trafficking, the international nature of the firm's activities, and the firm's commitment to ethical conduct in its operations and supply chain.

1. About the Firm

Ladd & Co. is a private advisory firm representing ultra-high-net-worth families, principals, and private institutions across mergers and acquisitions, capital placement, co-investment, international tax and structuring, and related private affairs. The firm operates through Ladd & Co. Pty Ltd (ABN 99 673 336 206), incorporated in New South Wales, Australia, together with affiliated offices in New York, Palm Beach, George Town, London, Zürich, Dubai, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Sydney.

Further details of the firm's structure are set out in the firm's Legal Entity Disclosure.

2. Nature of the Firm's Operations and Supply Chain

The firm's operations consist of the provision of advisory and execution services. The firm does not manufacture, distribute, or sell physical goods, and does not maintain a manufacturing, agricultural, extractive, or labour-intensive operational footprint.

The firm's principal operational inputs are:

professional personnel — the firm engages senior advisory professionals and supporting personnel directly, in accordance with applicable employment, immigration, and professional standards in the relevant jurisdictions;
professional service providers — including external legal counsel, accountants, auditors, compliance consultants, and other professionals engaged by the firm or alongside the firm in connection with engagements;
technology and infrastructure providers — enterprise-grade cloud hosting, communications, identity management, document execution, productivity, and analytics services, sourced from established international providers;
office and operational services — premises, facilities, professional services, and travel-related services across the firm's offices.

The firm assesses its supply chain as presenting a relatively low inherent risk of modern slavery, having regard to the nature of the inputs (predominantly professional services and enterprise software) and the geographies involved.

3. Risk Assessment

While the firm assesses the inherent risk of modern slavery in its direct operations and tier-one supply chain as low, the firm recognises that:

the international nature of the firm's footprint exposes it to a range of jurisdictions with differing labour standards and enforcement environments;
engagements may involve clients, counterparties, or transactions connected to industries or jurisdictions of elevated modern slavery risk;
supply chains beyond tier one (including the supply chains of the firm's technology and service providers) may carry residual risk that is not directly visible to the firm.

4. Actions Taken to Address Risk

The firm has taken, and continues to take, the following actions to address modern slavery risk in its operations and supply chain:

Personnel practices — recruitment, onboarding, and engagement of personnel are conducted in accordance with applicable employment law in each jurisdiction. The firm does not engage personnel through arrangements that involve recruitment fees borne by workers, retention of identification documents, or other practices associated with labour exploitation.
Whistleblowing and grievance channels — personnel and third parties are able to raise concerns regarding misconduct, including any concern relating to modern slavery in the firm's operations or supply chain, through internal escalation channels or by writing directly to office@laddco.com.
Service-provider due diligence — the firm engages established service providers and includes appropriate contractual terms in its engagements with material providers. The firm preferences providers that demonstrate a commitment to ethical labour practices and that publish their own modern slavery, human rights, or supplier code statements where applicable.
Client and counterparty due diligence — the firm's onboarding due diligence (described in the firm's Anti-Money Laundering Statement) considers, where relevant, adverse media and public information that may indicate modern slavery or human trafficking concerns connected to a prospective client, counterparty, or transaction.
Engagement-level review — where a transaction involves industries or jurisdictions of elevated modern slavery risk, additional review is undertaken as part of the firm's engagement assessment.
Training — personnel are made aware, as part of their induction and ongoing training, of the firm's expectations regarding ethical conduct, the recognition of modern slavery indicators, and the channels available to raise concerns.

5. Decline and Withdrawal

The firm reserves the right to decline to accept any prospective engagement, and to withdraw from any existing engagement, where it identifies a material risk that the engagement is connected to modern slavery, human trafficking, forced labour, or other serious labour rights abuses, and the risk cannot be appropriately addressed.

6. Effectiveness

The firm assesses the effectiveness of its actions through:

review of recruitment and engagement practices for personnel and service providers;
review of any concerns raised through internal escalation channels;
monitoring of regulatory and enforcement developments relevant to modern slavery in the jurisdictions in which the firm operates; and
periodic review of this Statement and the underlying procedures.

7. Consultation

This Statement is published on behalf of the principal operating entity of the firm, Ladd & Co. Pty Ltd, and reflects the position of the firm's affiliated offices and entities. The firm operates as an integrated practice, and consultation across offices is part of ordinary internal governance.

8. Approval and Review

This Statement is reviewed annually and updated to reflect material changes in the firm's operations, supply chain, risk assessment, or actions taken. The firm's principal is responsible for the approval of this Statement and for ongoing oversight of the firm's response to modern slavery risk.

9. Contact

To raise concerns regarding modern slavery in the firm's operations or supply chain, or for any questions regarding this Statement, please contact:

Ladd & Co. Email: office@laddco.com Website: laddco.com

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