FINANCIAL SERVICES
Our team is a specialist corporate advisory team that covers financial services law in Australia, sitting within Laura Linschoten the broader corporate team. We are Solicitor fortunate to work on a wide variety of matters with our financial service clients including transactional work and advisory work (as well as supporting the disputes team as financial service experts). This varied experience means we are constantly learning new skills and enables us to become well-rounded lawyers that uniquely get to work with both front end and backend teams across the firm. We are a national team, integrated across Sydney and Melbourne. This means we work directly with lawyers in both states regardless of where we are physically based. Being part of a national practice has enabled me to form connections with colleagues across the HSF network, and travel to the Sydney office for work. In our team you will be exposed to a variety of different areas of financial service law including the full spectrum of regulated changes, enforcement, and compliance which includes: m&a transactions reorganisations and restructuring anti-money laundering and counter terrorism financing sanctions requirement to be licensed with ASIC and AUSTRAC conduct and disclosure obligations reporting obligations including breach reporting design and distribution obligations non-cash payment facilities including smart cards, digital wallets, payment tokens, credit cards, and electronic payment facilities regulations and advice regarding entering new financial service businesses and products into the Australian market derivative regulations The clients we work with include big banks, investment banks, non-bank lenders, payment processing facilitators and fintech’s including crowd source funding businesses and buy-now-pay later businesses and crypto-currency platforms.
