About Yvonne
Yvonne is a partner in the firm’s Corporate, Commercial and M&A group. Yvonne specialises in corporate advisory and M&A, financial services regulation, risk, compliance and privacy. She has extensive private practice and in-house experience having worked as in-house legal counsel and lawyer for leading organisations (Suncorp Bank, Bank of Queensland, University of Queensland and Bank of Ireland) and law firms (more recently Clyde & Co and Gadens) in Australia and Ireland.
Yvonne’s broad corporate and commercial practice includes advising clients in connection with corporate transactions and M&A, corporate contracting, general corporate advisory, privacy and data protection and corporate governance matters. She has worked with Australian and global companies across a wide range of industries and has particular experience with the banking, insurance, education and healthcare sectors.
Yvonne’s experience also spans complex financial services advisory work, regulatory projects, licencing, large scale remediation matters and risk and compliance matters advising banks, insurers, financial / credit institutions, investment firms, funds, payment institutions, digital asset and platform providers, non-bank lenders and other financial services clients.
Recent Experience
- Global Petroleum and Petroleum Products Merchant Wholesaler on its acquisition of an Australian target
- Global Engineering, Management and Development Consultancy on its acquisition of an Australian target
- Global Technology Company regarding unfair contract terms legislation advice and contract reviews
- Australian Equities Manager in connection with its joint venture and merger with a global fund manager
- Financial Services/Credit Licensees in the sale and purchase of their entities including advising on and attending to regulatory filings associated with financial services M&A and authorisation variations
- Banks, Insurers and Credit Unions in connection with commercial contracting including MSA and intragroup services agreement reviews, product terms and conditions reviews, corporate governance, regulatory advice and risk management, and review of internal policies, procedures and compliance frameworks
- Global Commercial-Stage Biopharmaceutical Company in connection with the presentation and facilitation to its global executive team of a risk simulation workshop for crisis management planning purposes
- Corporates and Leading Australian Banks in connection with project work including providing legal advice on digital projects, regulatory projects, privacy and data governance projects and projects relating to the introduction to market of new or variations to products and services
- Banks, Insurers and RSE Licensees regarding Financial Accountability Regime (FAR) implementation and compliance including drafting of accountability statements, consulting with executives and NEDs and development of reasonable steps through improved governance, risk, controls and other frameworks
- Corporates, Regulated Entities and Crypto Service Providers in connection with licencing and regulatory matters, including advising on compliance, risk and licensing regimes and engaging with regulators
- Banks, Insurers and other Regulated Entities in connection with advice on breaches of regulatory obligations and remediation of incidents, including in connection with largescale and systemic breaches