Andrea Sneddon
Senior Associate
Sydney
Andrea is a Australian commercial litigator specialising in class action litigation and regulatory investigations.
Andrea is an experienced commercial litigator, with specialist expertise in defending class actions.
Andrea has acted for some of Australia’s largest corporations in defending some of the most high-profile class actions in Australia and has assisted our clients in managing the risks associated with these actions.
Background
Andrea holds a Bachelor of Laws degree (Honours) and a Bachelor of Economics from the University of New South Wales and is admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of New South Wales and the High Court of Australia.
Experience & expertise
Selected matters
- defending Australian wealth manager AMP in shareholder class action proceedings arising out of evidence at the Financial Services Royal Commission
- defending one of Australia’s largest product liability class actions, brought against DePuy and Johnson & Johnson, in relation to the production and supply of metal-on-metal hip implants
- advising Bayer in relation a product liability class action based on the alleged carcinogenicity of glyphosate products
- defending civil penalty proceedings brought by the Australia’s anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing regulator, AUSTRAC, against the Commonwealth Bank of Australia in relation to anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing legislation
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