Candy Lau is a financial services regulatory lawyer and a restructuring and insolvency litigator based in Sydney.

She advises Australia's major financial institutions, insolvency practitioners and multinational corporations on a diverse range of complex matters relating to regulatory compliance and investigations, corporate governance, cross-border restructuring and insolvency, and dispute resolution. 

Candy's regulatory practice includes advising global financial institutions on the recent regulatory reforms relating to the design and distribution obligations and the reportable situations regime. She has also provided extensive support to major financial institutions on the design and implementation of complex review and remediation programs. In her most recent engagement, she played an instrumental role in leading a diverse team of a substantial size in successfully achieving project milestones.

She has completed multiple secondments at leading financial institutions in the retail and business banking space. Most recently, she was seconded into a risk and compliance role within a global electronics and electrical equipment manufacturing corporation headquartered in Japan. Leveraging on her in-house experience, Candy is attuned to the risks faced by businesses in light of the evolving regulatory landscape and advises on strategies that mitigate legal/compliance, conduct, operational as well as reputational risks.

Candy was first admitted as a solicitor in Hong Kong where she practised as a litigation and dispute resolution lawyer. She brings to her current role extensive litigation experience in conducting civil proceedings in both English and Chinese.