Ethan Dodd
Lawyer
Kiara Walsh
Lawyer
Jasper Wong
Lawyer
Danielle Cooper
Associate
Trisha Durney
Solicitor
Joshua Salameh
Lawyer
Sarah-Jayne Rayner
Special Counsel
Christina Sartor
Senior Associate

Abina Kirubaharan

Lawyer

Abina is lawyer in the Funds & Financial Services team, specialising in financial services regulatory matters. Her clients are usually financial institutions, fintechs, insurers, wealth managers and other established financial services and credit licensees. She is interested in the technical nuances of financial services law in response to market developments and is committed to ensuring her clients receive clear advice and actionable solutions.

Abina’s experience in corporations law and commercial law and her technical background in IT underpins her knowledge of the financial services industry, enabling her to deliver comprehensive and commercially astute outcomes to clients operating in the wealth management, payments, digital assets, general insurance, consumer credit, banking and financial markets and AML/CTF spaces.

Prior to joining Hamilton Locke, Abina supported leading lawyers in commercial disputes, class actions and insurance. Her years of experience in litigation largely involved breaches of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) and she continues to apply her dispute resolution skills to negotiate commercial agreements and disputes and to advise and mitigate litigation risk for her clients.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Financial Services; Corporations Law; Disputes; Design and Distribution (DDO) Obligations; Licensing.

QUALIFICATIONS
  • Admitted to practice as a lawyer and solicitor in New South Wales and of the High Court of Australia
  • Bachelor of Laws – University of Technology Sydney
  • Bachelor of Science in Information Technology* (specialising in Business Information Systems Management) – University of Technology Sydney

*this undergraduate course is now known as the Bachelor of Information Technology at the University of Technology Sydney.