Full Profile
Avryl leads the Corporate Regulatory Practice Group at Clyde & Co in Australia. Avryl regularly advises financial services clients on establishment, corporate governance and regulatory issues, and helps clients manage complex internal and regulatory investigations. Avryl has extensive experience dealing with ASIC, APRA and the ACCC. Avryl also advises clients on issues arising in international trade, including international trade disputes, anti-bribery and corruption matters and sanctions, from both a compliance and enforcement perspective.
She has extensive transactional experience in the areas of corporate restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, reinsurance collateral arrangements and distribution and marketing arrangements.
Avryl acts for a wide range of clients including insurers, reinsurers, brokers, underwriting agencies, superannuation funds, international trading companies and global manufacturers.
Avryl brings significant government experience to her regulatory practice. She previously worked as a legal and trade law specialist with the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and was posted as an Australian diplomat to Singapore and Mumbai in trade and investment roles.
Avryl is recognised as a leading practitioner for Insurance by Chambers & Partners and Legal 500. She is also recommended by Legal 500 for Financial Services Regulatory and White-collar Crime.
Avryl is recognised by Insurance Business Australia as a 5-Star Insurance Lawyer.
Experience
- Regulatory: ASIC investigations – Advising an Australian Financial Services Licensee in respect of a significant ASIC investigation into their financial services business
- D&O – Acting for various insurers on claims made under a D&O policy in the context of an insolvency of a publicly listed company resulting in a shareholder class action and proceedings against directors and officers
- Regulatory: ACCC investigation –Acting for a multinational company in respect of an ACCC investigation into various advertising campaigns and advising on improvement strategy
- Regulatory: APRA prudential requirements – Advising various insurers and reinsurers with respect to APRA prudential requirements for reinsurance risk management and drafting reinsurance collateral and custodian documentation
- Regulatory: financial services – Advising various international companies on the licensing requirements to deal with financial products and provide financial services advice in Australia
- Regulatory: anti-bribery and corruption – Preparing advice for various boards on Australia's anti-bribery and corruption regime and current trends in this area
- Corporate governance – Advising various companies on corporate governance issues including directors' duties, transfer and issue of shares, and related-party transactions
- Corporate restructuring – As part of an international Clyde & Co team, advising on the Australian law aspects of the refinancing and restructuring of an international trading company
- Trade disputes – Advising an international trading company on recovery of debts and an application to be the substituted applicant in a winding up application against an Australian publicly listed company
- Distribution and marketing agreements – Advising an international direct marketing company on the establishment of a distribution and marketing arrangement with a leading Australian bank and negotiating the terms of the final agreement
