Sonja
Marsic
Sonja conducts both a litigation and an advising practice in the areas of, anti-money-laundering and counter-terrorism financing regulation, financial regulation, therapeutic goods regulation, and consumer law for a broad range of Commonwealth departments and agencies.
She has acted for the AUSTRAC CEO in a number of recent landmark cases under the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act 2006 resulting in significant civil penalties, including $1.3 billion against Westpac Banking Corporation and $700 million against the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. Sonja has also assisted both the Financial Services Royal Commission and the HIH Royal Commission with the examination of a range of financial market, corporate governance and regulatory issues.