Megan Styles

Megan accepts briefs in regulatory, commercial, and quasi-criminal matters. She has a particular interest in matters involving commercial and white-collar crime, asset confiscation, proceeds of crime, law enforcement, insolvency and financial investigations/compliance.

Megan accepts briefs requiring a security clearance.

Prior to being called to the Bar, Megan was a Principal Litigation Lawyer and Team Leader with the Australian Federal Police Criminal Assets Litigation team of the Criminal Assets Confiscation Taskforce.

In this role Megan developed expertise in proceeds of crime and civil litigation, with a focus on financial crime and investigations, asset tracing, fraud, serious and organised crime, anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing (AML/CTF) legislation, disclosure of sensitive law enforcement information, legal professional privilege and cryptocurrency.

Megan has experience with a range of commercial issues including bankruptcy proceedings, debanking and mortgagee disputes. Megan regularly advised and appeared in matters involving state and federal agencies, corporations, law enforcement bodies and financial institutions including instructing and appearing at coercive examinations and a variety of courts and tribunals.

Megan has also worked at the Victorian Court of Appeal as a Researcher, Associate to Justices Priest, Beach and McLeish and as a Registry Lawyer. On secondment from the Court of Appeal, she worked at the Sentencing Advisory Council on an Attorney-General’s reference on restitution and compensation orders for victims of crime. Megan commenced her legal career in commercial, employment and insurance law with Hunt and Hunt Lawyers and later M+K Dobson Mitchell Allport Lawyers, in Hobart.

Megan holds a Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Laws with First Class Honours in Law from the University of Tasmania, where she received the subject prize for Corporations Law and was on the Dean’s Roll of Excellence. She is currently undertaking her PhD at Monash University, on proceeds of crime. In 2023, Megan was invited to present at the International Symposium on Economic Crime at Cambridge University and in 2024, attended the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Summer School on Transnational Organised Crime.

Megan is reading with Astrid Haban-Beer and her senior mentor is Justin Hannebery KC.