Daad is a financial services regulatory lawyer with broad experience working in-house across the banking, wealth management, and funds management sectors. She helps financial services providers navigate complex regulatory frameworks, with deep expertise in licensing and compliance, privacy, consumer protection, financial crime, corporations’ law, governance, and trust law.

She has extensive experience engaging with key regulators, including ASIC, APRA, and the OAIC, and bring a commercially astute perspective to regulatory engagement and investigations. Her strong grasp of the operational and functional realities of financial services businesses enables her to provide practical, business-aligned legal solutions, particularly in the face of evolving regulatory landscapes.

Daad’s practice spans the full spectrum of financial regulation, including financial product development, digital assets, venture capital, cryptocurrency, and blockchain-related initiatives. She also provides strategic advice on regulatory change, governance frameworks, and ongoing compliance obligations, with a focus on delivering clear, actionable outcomes for clients.

Daad is passionate about the law, the emerging developments of Web3 and technological innovation has on financial services regulation and provides a personable, strategic and pragmatic approach in serving her clients.

Daad holds a Finsia Diploma in Financial Markets, Bachelor of Economics, Bachelor of Laws from Monash University, Certificate in Blockchain and Fintech from the University of Capetown. She is admitted to practice in NSW and the High Court of Australia.