Emma’s expertise includes:

• Superannuation, trust law and group life insurance
• Defined benefit arrangements and statutory schemes
• Retirement income streams and strategies
• Fund mergers, growth strategies and outsourcing arrangements
• Financial services regulation and statutory interpretation
• Governance, compliance and risk management
• Rectification and dispute resolution

• Advising the trustee in an application to the Supreme Court of New South Wales for judicial advice in Re AUSCOAL Superannuation Pty Ltd atf the Mine Superannuation Fund
• Advising the trustee of a successor fund in relation to a successor fund transfer.
• Obtaining a declaration from the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority modifying the application of the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993 to a superannuation entity.
• Advising the trustee on the winding up of a defined benefit sub-fund and the payment of surplus to the sponsoring employer and obtaining a statutory waiver from the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority.
• Advising on benefit preservation implications from the conversion of statutory pension schemes to occupational schemes and successive mergers to different registrable superannuation entities.
• Advising in respect of incidents arising on life insurance claims and rectification.
• Advising the trustee as seed client for a new administration services provider regarding the outsourcing transaction.

• Member of the Victorian Committee of Women in Super
• Member of the Victorian Women Lawyers Association Inc.