# Forvis Mazars - **Type:** Advisory firm - **Website:** https://www.forvismazars.com/uk/en - **Assessed by:** The Assurance Desk (Add-Venture Advisory Ltd) The UK arm of the Forvis Mazars network. Its data protection and AI governance advice is one service line inside a large audit, tax and consulting firm. ## Forvis Mazars scores Scored 1 to 5 on six criteria. There is no overall score. ### Help when things go wrong: 3/5 Breach response support is listed as a named service with named advisory leads, but no disclosed case outcomes or regulator engagement results are published ### Qualifications of the people who do the work: 3/5 Foyaz Uddin and Abdul Samad are named with titles and direct phone numbers, but no specific published qualifications such as CIPP or a law degree are attached to either name ### What it publishes about fees: 1/5 No fee figures, rate card or pricing examples appear on the privacy and data protection service page or elsewhere checked ### Knowledge of your sector: 3/5 Firm-wide sector pages exist for financial services and healthcare, but the privacy/AI service page itself does not name sector-specialist privacy staff ### Independence from what it sells: 2/5 The firm also holds ICAEW audit registration and sells broader consulting and advisory services from one network, and independence between advice and other commercial service lines is not addressed on the privacy page, the same structural concern that excluded Deloitte, PwC, KPMG and EY from this site ### Who carries the risk if the advice is wrong: 4/5 A named PI insurer (Lloyds Syndicate MKL 3000) and ICAEW audit registration number are explicitly disclosed, though the cover amount and an incident-support commitment are not stated ## Sources for Forvis Mazars Every line carries the page it was read on and the date it was checked. - Companies House registration - Source: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/OC308299 - Checked: 2026-07-17 - Firm scale, FY25 - Source: https://www.forvismazars.com/uk/en/who-we-are/news/forvis-mazars-in-the-uk-reports-fy25-performance - Checked: 2026-07-17 - Data protection/AI service scope - Source: https://www.forvismazars.com/uk/en/services/consulting/technology-and-digital-consulting/privacy-data-protection - Checked: 2026-07-17 - Named privacy advisory contacts - Source: https://www.forvismazars.com/uk/en/services/consulting/technology-and-digital-consulting/privacy-data-protection - Checked: 2026-07-17 - Professional indemnity insurance disclosure - Source: https://www.forvismazars.com/uk/en/contact-us/legal-and-privacy - Checked: 2026-07-17 - Pricing disclosure - Source: https://www.forvismazars.com/uk/en/services/consulting/technology-and-digital-consulting/privacy-data-protection - Checked: 2026-07-17 ## What this provider publishes Not published means we did not find it on the firm's own pages. - Price: Not published - Indemnity cover: Published - Credentials: Published - Independent accreditation: Published - Client results: Not published - How it uses AI: Not published ## Strengths - Publishes named heads of the data and digital advisory practice with direct contact details rather than a generic enquiry form - Discloses its professional indemnity insurer and carries ICAEW audit registration, giving a verifiable regulatory anchor - AI governance framework is explicitly mapped to the EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF and ISO 42001 ## Things to check Each one carries the factual basis it rests on. - Operates at large multi-service accountancy-network scale, £391.9m UK revenue and 3,542 staff in FY25, the same scale profile that led this site to exclude the Big 4 from comparison - Basis: Forvis Mazars UK's own FY25 results announcement states £391.9m revenue and headcount of 3,542 for the year to 31 August 2025 - No pricing information is published for the data protection or AI governance advisory service line - Basis: The privacy and data protection service page lists offerings but no fees, rate card or pricing examples - No documented case outcomes or breach-response results are published, despite breach response being listed as a named service - Basis: The privacy and data protection page names 'breach response support' as a service but links to no outcome, case study or regulator-engagement result ## Where this firm appears - [Do you need a data protection officer?](https://theassurancedesk.com/best/first-appointment) - [After a data breach: what UK law asks of you](https://theassurancedesk.com/best/post-breach) - [Does the EU AI Act apply to a UK firm?](https://theassurancedesk.com/best/eu-ai-act-exposed) - [Your sector adds its own rules to UK data protection law](https://theassurancedesk.com/best/sector-regulated) - [Compare providers](https://theassurancedesk.com/compare) --- **Scope.** The Assurance Desk covers data protection, AI governance and cyber security in the United Kingdom and the United States. It scores providers in both: UK-facing firms, and firms based in the United States. Every provider scored so far was selected for data-protection, AI-governance or security-assurance work. Where a page describes law, it names the country that law applies in. **Who publishes this.** The Assurance Desk is published by Add-Venture Advisory Ltd, company number 11854524, registered in England and Wales. The same owner runs Avouch, a marketing agency that sells AI visibility services to firms of the kind this site covers. That is a conflict of interest, and it is disclosed here. **Corrections.** If you represent this firm and something here is wrong or out of date, email hello@theassurancedesk.com with the evidence.