About Victoria Eastwood
Victoria is a commercial litigator who specialises in complex regulatory investigations and enforcement action, crisis response, commissions of inquiry and major disputes. She is a trusted adviser to some of Australia’s largest entities and is known for her strategic counsel and ability to navigate multifaceted legal, reputational and operational risks.
Victoria has been involved in responses to major investigations, inquiries and proceedings concerning breaches of corporate and criminal law across a range of areas, including financial services litigation, AML/CTF, foreign bribery, sanctions, fraud and other forms of misconduct—often under intense public and media scrutiny.
She has also undertaken secondments with CBA, Crown Resorts and PwC and does pro bono work for the Refugee Advice and Casework Service.
Her relevant experience includes:
- PwC: advising on its response to the issues arising out of the tax confidentiality breaches (including associated regulatory investigations, parliamentary inquiries and disputes)
- Entain (Ladbrokes / Neds): defending AUSTRAC civil penalty proceedings
- Macquarie: in an ASIC investigation and related civil penalty proceedings concerning fraud management controls
- CBA: in Federal Court proceedings commenced by two shareholders for access to documents under s247A of the Corporations Act relating to its climate change-related commitments
- A company: advising its response to an ICAC investigation
- Crown Resorts: acting for Crown Resorts Limited and its subsidiaries in a range of matters including the response to the NSW Casino Control Act Inquiry report, the Victorian Royal Commission and civil penalty proceedings brought by AUSTRAC
- Westpac: acting for Westpac in the civil penalty proceedings commenced by AUSTRAC, the successful resolution of the matter and Westpac's associated financial crime uplift projects
- Westpac: in relation to proceedings brought by ASIC regarding whether it sold duplicate insurance policies and a separate ASIC and APRA investigation for a related entity regarding Insurance in Super
- CIMIC Group Limited: advising in relation to multiple shareholder class actions, an ASIC investigation and an AFP investigation relating to allegations of foreign bribery in an offshore entity
- Various clients: advising several clients on their responses to AUSTRAC compliance assessments, and advising on AML/CTF, sanctions and anti-bribery and corruption issues.