Robert Wyld

Practice Areas

- Dispute Resolution

- Corporate Crime & Investigations

Career

Robert is a dispute resolution lawyer specialising in international trade, sanctions, money laundering and anti-corruption and anti-bribery laws and compliance.

Robert specialises in international trade and commercial and financial crime. He has advised many national and international clients, including individuals, public and private companies in the banking and securities, aviation, construction, mining, power and energy industries and sovereign governments on all aspects of commercial crime regulation, internal and external regulatory investigations and prosecutions. His work has a particular focus on commercial crime and fraud, anti-corruption and bribery investigations and prosecutions, sanctions, money laundering, extradition and domestic and international taxation related disputes in Australia and overseas.

Robert is the author of Bribery, Corruption & Sanctions Laws in Australia, published by LexisNexis in July 2025. He has published numerous texts (in Australia, the United Kingdom, the United States and Europe) on Australia’s anti-bribery, compliance and sanctions regimes and on managing risks in international trade. He was the Co-Chair of the International Bar Association’s Anti-Corruption Committee (ACC) for 2015 and 2016 and has been an Advisory Board Member of the ACC since 2021. He is the IBA Australia office on the Asset Recovery Committee for 2023 to 2026. He appears regularly across the Australia media as a specialist and expert on bribery and corruption issues.

Robert is recognised by Chambers & Partners as a leading lawyer in White-Collar Crime & Corporate Investigations.