Associate ProfessorDavid Chaikin

LLB/ BCom (With Merit) (Accounting. Finance) UNSW LLM Yale PhD in Law Cambridge

Prior to his academic appointment at the University of Sydney Business School, David was a practising lawyer specialising in multi-jurisdictional investigations, transnational commercial and criminal litigation, as well as offshore corporate and banking law. He has held appointments as Senior Assistant Secretary of the Australian Attorney-General's Department and Senior Legal Officer of the London-based intergovernmental body, the Commonwealth Secretariat. He has worked as a consultant to the United Nations, the OECD-based Financial Action Task Force, the Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering, the Institute of Chartered Accountants, and the Australian Financial Services Council.

David teaches in the areas of banking and finance law, corporate and commercial law, and asset protection/management of wealth risks. He has previously been a tenured lecturer at the London School of Economics and Political Science and a lecturer at Kings College, University of London.

David's research expertise is in comparative corporate law, financial crime, tax evasion and money laundering, financial services law and regulation, offshore finance, private banking and wealth management. He is a recipient of an ARC Discovery Grant and has been a lead consultant on major international research projects in Europe, the Americas and Asia.