About Geoff Sanders
Geoff heads Allens' Funds, Superannuation & Financial Services Practice. He specialises in superannuation, financial services law and funds management, with a particular focus on investments work and all aspects of superannuation and financial services law and regulation.
He regularly acts for a number of Australia's highest profile superannuation trustees, as well as many leading Australian and international fund managers covering all asset classes.
Geoff’s experience includes:
- advising on many of the highest-profile successor fund transfers in the superannuation sector over recent years, including mergers involving Aware Super, Equipsuper, CareSuper, ART, Hostplus and others;
- advising a number of superannuation trustees on their response to ASIC and APRA regulatory investigations and prosecutions;
- assisting many of Australia's largest profit-for-member superannuation funds, including AustralianSuper, Aware Super, Cbus, HESTA, Hostplus, Rest and others on both strategic and day-to-day financial services regulatory and compliance matters, including in relation to ASIC and APRA breach reporting, regulatory disclosure obligations, trust deed amendment, FAR implementation and compliance with Prudential Standards; and
- advising many of Australia's largest superannuation and other institutional investors in respect of their investments in a range of private market fund products, fund-of-one structures, separate account mandates and co-investments across all asset classes.