Wednesday, 21 May 2025
Chair
Megan Styles, Barrister, Foley’s List
Simplification Reforms and Services Impacted: Expectations for Real Estate Professionals
This session will set the scene for the rest of the sessions that will dive into more detail. This session will setout what the AML/CTF regime is, how a business gets captured by the regime and what that means. The session will also explore the impact of the exemptions proposed in the recently released draft AML/CTF Rules on the Real Estate sector
Presented by Neil Jeans, Partner, Grant Thornton
Description
Attend and earn 0.5 CPD unit in Substantive Law
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Presenters
Neil Jeans, Partner, Grant ThorntonNeil has a unique background in financial crime risk management spanning almost 30 years, including working at senior levels managing AML/CTF, Sanctions and Anti-Bribery compliance across Europe, the US, Latin America, Asia, and Australia within two major global investment banks, one European financial services company, and a major Australian bank. He has also worked within law enforcement agencies investigating financial crime and money laundering, and as a financial services regulator developing AML/CTF regulation and AML/CTF regulatory supervision techniques.
Megan Styles, Barrister, Foley’s List
Megan is a barrister at the Victorian Bar and accepts briefs across Australia in a broad range of matters. She has a particular interest in matters involving AML/CTF legislation, asset tracing and proceeds of crime/asset confiscation, financial crime investigations, disclosure issues, law enforcement, bankruptcy and insolvency law and mortgage disputes. Prior to being called to the Bar, Megan was a Principal Litigation Lawyer and Team Leader with the Australian Federal Police Criminal Assets Litigation team of the Criminal Assets Confiscation Taskforce. Megan regularly advises and appears in matters involving state and federal agencies, corporations, law enforcement bodies and financial institutions, in a variety of courts and tribunals. She is currently undertaking her PhD at Monash University, on proceeds of crime. In 2023, Megan was invited to present at the International Symposium on Economic Crime at Cambridge University and in 2024, attended the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Summer School on Transnational Organised Crime.
