Introduction

Samantha is sought out by clients for her deep experience in banking and financial services regulation, as well as governance, risk, and compliance advice.

Samantha is focused on banking and financial services regulation and also has extensive governance, risk management, and compliance experience, with over 15 years' experience in senior private practice and in-house roles. She has also held board and management committee roles on the Stadiums Queensland Board and not-for-profit boards.

Her legal practice is focused on the banking and financial services sectors, including financial services laws, financial crimes laws, privacy, and consumer credit. Her governance, risk, and compliance experience spans across multiple industries, including advising clients in both the public and private sectors in banking, insurance, wealth, retail, mining, gaming, and government departments and authorities.

Samantha has co-created:

  • Obligation Management Solution to assist clients with navigating the complex compliance landscape, adapt to regulatory changes, and strive for compliance excellence.
  • the Breach Reporting Managed Service to enable financial services clients to efficiently and effectively leverage automation to manage the reportable situation regime; and
  • a Document Review and Production Service to respond to regulatory investigations and complete discovery.

Samantha is proud to have been recognized in her field. She was the Women Lawyers Association of Queensland Inc. Emergent Lawyer of the Year in 2008, a finalist for the Chief Compliance Officer of the Year in the C5 International Compliance Awards in 2018 and was recognized in 2020 as the sole Australian in the Global Banking Regulation Review's 45 under 45 top next-generation banking regulation practitioners worldwide.

 
  • Represented a large reporting entity on their response to an AUSTRAC investigation into breaches under AML/CTF laws including. 
  • Advised a bank as part of the independent team appointed to review all of the Bank's breach reporting over a 2-year period. In addition, supported the bank in uplifting its breach reporting processes including advising on supporting guidance and procedures, and delivering training.
  • Appointed by a Superannuation Trustee and Insurance Broking/Risk Management business to review the adequacy of systems and controls to comply with financial services laws.
  • Advising on submissions to the Attorney-General's department on AML/CTF reforms in respect of reforms applying to Tranche 2 entities. 
  • Seconded to a large bank for 6 months leading the deposits legal team.