Lucinda is a corporate and financial services lawyer based in Sydney with deep financial services sector experience, having worked with and in the industry for over 25 years. Lucinda has expertise in superannuation, funds management, financial services and prudential and conduct regulation, governance and risk.

Lucinda provides her clients with strategic advice on their most important regulatory and risk issues, bringing a unique perspective and critical judgement gained from her senior leadership roles in a leading regulator, in-house and private practice.

Lucinda’s in-house experience includes her role as General Counsel of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), where she was responsible for leading the team of over 60 lawyers and investigators supporting APRA in its role as prudential supervisor of Australia’s banking, insurance and superannuation sectors. Lucinda was also General Counsel for AMP’s wealth business and led a team of over 35 financial services and banking lawyers supporting AMP’s superannuation, life insurance, banking, financial advice and platforms business areas.

Lucinda has advised on the sale of one of Australia’s largest life insurance companies and the business separation and transition arrangements following the sale, capital raising for listed and unlisted issuers, domestic and off-shore investments for superannuation trustees, regulatory approvals, investigations and enforcement action in the superannuation, insurance and banking sectors, board and governance arrangements, business strategy, business establishment and product development including licensing, product distribution and disclosure.

During her time in-house Lucinda has been a member of executive leadership teams and policy and governance committees, has been responsible for probity and integrity functions, including whistleblowing, FOI requests and public interest disclosures, and has led regulatory affairs and specialist technical actuarial and accounting functions.

In private practice Lucinda has acted for domestic and international clients such as wealth management businesses, superannuation trustees, fund managers, regulators, derivatives issuers, brokers, banks and investment banks. Lucinda has extensive experience advising Boards and senior executives in relation to governance, regulation and risk and a wide range of issues spanning financial services and financial markets, arising under the Corporations Act, the SIS Act, the Banking Act, the ASX Listing Rules, the ASX Market Integrity Rules and the ASX Operating Rules.

Lucinda has executive Board experience, having been director of various financial advice businesses holding financial services licences.