Simon Dwyer

Simon is a financial crime lawyer and Chartered Accountant with extensive advisory experience. His background is in corporate and financial services regulation and technology-led investigations and is experienced in seeking a range of enforcement remedies.  He has assisted global banks in the UK, the U.S., France, Switzerland, Italy, the Middle East and Asia with their financial crime compliance, investigations and regulatory enforcement matters. 

Simon works with banks to meet their financial crime obligations including AML, financial sanctions, fraud and tax transparency.  Advisory work includes financial crime risk assessments as well as assessing, developing, implementing and monitoring financial crime compliance programmes.

Contentious work includes major cross-border sanctions investigations and settlements, tax evasion investigations and settlements, financial product mis-selling remediations, financial sector fraud prosecutions and proceedings against company directors. He has managed a range of administrative, civil and criminal proceedings. 

Simon moved to London in 2006 to work as a Forensic consultant with KPMG and returned to Australia in 2021 to work as a financial crime lawyer and consultant. During his time in London, Simon's roles included Director Forensic and Director Financial Crime Technology. He was also seconded to KPMG East Africa for two years as a partner and Head of Forensic. 

Prior to working in the UK, Simon was an ASIC Regional Commissioner and Enforcement Director.

Simon is admitted to practice law in Australia and England and Wales and is a Fellow of the Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand.