Andre Abib

Experience

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  Vituli Moura Lacerda Associate Lawyers

  Aug 2004 - Jan 2007

  Junior Associate

  Law Firm specialising in Civil Law, Real Estate (Strata Plans) and litigation advisors to the Corporate and Land Development sectors. After graduating from University and being admitted as a fully licensed Lawyer, I was invited to become a junior associate at the boutique Law firm where I was a paralegal. The job consisted on drafting and reviewing contracts, assisting and participating on dispute resolutions sessions, especially regarding issues arising from contracts between Developers and Strata Management. Furthermore I was responsible for legal and jurisprudence research, although supervised by the senior partner as well as gaining experience dealing directly with clients throughout all stages of individual cases. Show less

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  University of Sydney

  Sept 2009 - Mar 2011

  Program Assistant

  Integrant of the Continuing Education in Dentistry department, my role as a Program Assistant consisted in tasks such as data entry and management of confidential client database, management of archives and files and project management of courses in Continuing Education including booking venues, organising ICT equipment, maintaining payments, printing course materials and liaising with course conveners as well as the Dean of the Faculty.

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  Australian Securities & Investments Commission

  Sept 2011 - May 2013

  Legal Officer

  As member of the Document Review and Issues Review teams on the Storm matter, the job consisted on assisting lawyers and counsel with case management and preparation, analysis of documents for issues tagging across 3 different litigations, streamlining processes in using Ringtail and Nuix databases as well of researching evidence and writing memoranda in order to instruct senior lawyers and counsel on a number of issues arising throughout the development of the case.As my first experience working into the Australian legal system, I agree I achieved and developed skills as a legal practitioner as well as knowledge of Chapter 5C of the Corporations Act in relation to managed investment schemes, learning and the importance of the Corporations Act rules in regards as how markets and companies are regulated and are made accountable to the public. Show less

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  ASIC

  Sept 2014 - Oct 2016

  During my current role I was required to train and brief staff joining the team as well as reviewing their work, conducting S. 19 interviews and reconciliation of all evidence produced under the statutory notices served. I have been assigned to draft memoranda instructing Senior Lawyers and Counsel on issues that arose throughout the matter and issues concerning the elaboration of the Statement of Claim. Once the investigation phase was concluded and legal action taken, I became part of the litigation team conducting case management of the matter. As a result I have experienced compliance with statutory notices issued by the regulator as well as improvement in my knowledge to investigative strategies and procedures. Show less As part of ASIC’s largest investigation regarding market misconduct, my team and I had a duty to provide support to Senior Investigators and Senior Lawyers construing case theory for the matter. My role in the support team had me responsible for the analysis of documents and audio recordings for relevance as well as performing legal research for issues as they arose through the investigation. I was also responsible, through creating files of evidence regarding persons of interest, to provide support in relation to the S. 19 interviews conducted and later draft summaries highlighting the relevant information provided. As a result, I have gained knowledge of Chapter 7 of the Corporations Act, solid knowledge of financial products traded through the OTC markets as well as skills necessary to be part of a high profile investigation. Show less

  • Lawyer

    Sept 2015 - Oct 2016

  • Eforcement Officer

    Sept 2014 - Sept 2015
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  HSBC Bank Australia Limited

  Oct 2016 - Apr 2019

  Assistant Manager Regulatory Compliance Global Banking and Markets
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  Commonwealth Bank

  Apr 2019 - now

  My current role as a project manager is to implement and embed the third party risk management uplifts required for compliance with the upcoming APRA CPS 230 - Operational Risk Management. With my Compliance background I also act as a regulatory SME, not only advising on CPS 230 interpretation, but also supporting regulatory submissions and regulatory reviews.

  • Senior Manager

    Mar 2024 - now

  • Executive Manager

    Mar 2023 - Oct 2024

  • Senior Manager Supplier Compliance - Enterprise Services

    Apr 2019 - Oct 2024