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Andrea has more than 25 years’ experience and specialises in financial services, banking and corporate law. Andrea brings legal capability and insight into regulatory matters, corporate governance, compliance and risk management. She assists her clients to adapt to the changing regulatory landscape to ensure they meet the expectations of their customers and shareholders and regulators.

Her expertise extends to designing and conducting a broad range of financial services training for financial services providers, their senior executives and responsible managers, legal & compliance officers, consumer advocates and lawyers.

Andrea advises domestic and foreign institutions on acquiring financial services and credit licences and exemptions. She specialises in advising on structuring and establishing financial services and credit businesses including licence obligations, drafting plain English documents, procedures, systems audits and online web application processes. She advises on regulatory compliance projects and audits, regulatory enforcement defences, and regulator investigations and disputes.

Andrea’s experience includes advising clients on financial products and channels, including FinTech solutions, peer to peer lending platforms, crowd funding, payment systems, crypto currency, reward programs, gift cards and financial services acquisitions, disposals and alliances.

Andrea also has in-depth knowledge of privacy laws and regularly advises clients on data and privacy security, credit reporting and breach remediation. She has assisted entities reform their privacy compliance.

Andrea regularly advises on AML/CTF compliance. Andrea also regularly conducts training programs and workshops for clients including Australian Credit Licence and Australian Financial Services Licence compulsory responsible managers training, privacy training, regulatory updates and “Back to Basics” credit law, privacy, anti-money laundering and other training workshops.

Andrea is widely published and her authorships include 7 editions of the leading consumer law text “Annotated National Credit Code”, with the most recent edition published on 31 October 2024 by LexisNexis, the ‘Australia’ chapters in the “Consumer Finance Law Review” and the “Banking Regulation Review”, which is published by The Law Reviews, Law Business Research Ltd, UK.

Andrea is also a member of numerous financial services professional associations. She is the Deputy Chair of the Privacy Committee and a member of the Financial Services and Digital Commerce Committees of the Law Council of Australia Business Law Section. Andrea is also one of three members of the Australia Finance Industry Association’s (AFIA) Code Compliance Committee for the Online Small Business Lenders Code.

In addition to her recommendation in The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific for Fintech & Financial Services Regulatory and Data Protection in the 2024 edition, Andrea is also ranked for Financial Services Regulation in Chambers and Partners. She has also recently been named as Best Lawyer for Commercial Law by The Best Lawyers in Australia, 2025 edition.