Glenda Hanson specialises in investment funds and financial services regulation. She has nearly 30 years' experience with the firm advising on major transactions in the listed market to launching quoted products and investment funds for both retail and wholesale investors. She has advised extensively on structuring and restructuring investment vehicles (including stapled structures), capital raising, licensing, disclosure, investment management, governance, compliance and custody. She was closely involved in the development of the corporate collective investment vehicle regime.
Glenda is a member of the Financial Services Committee of the Law Council, chair of the Financial Services Council's legal and compliance expert group, and for 15 years has authored the chapter on collective investments in the looseleaf service Australian Corporation Practice. She has also served as an expert reader on the Australian Law Reform Commission's Report 141 on reform of the Corporations Act, and as a member of the expert panel to ASIC's simplification consultative group.
Before joining Mallesons in 1996, Glenda worked in house for seven years with a small funds management business.