We work with many of Australia's leading financial institutions, including banks, insurance houses, fund managers and trustees.

Our expertise covers:

• capital markets
• corporate
• project, retail and structured finance
• securitisation
• e-commerce banking
• debt restructuring and workouts
• managed investments, including all manner of retail and wholesale funds, property trusts, relevant regulatory developments, superannuation, insurance, product and financial institution nationalisations, legacy product closures,  unit pricing, and regulatory interventions.

We advise borrowers, lenders and intermediaries, and are actively involved in helping to shape the regulatory environment in which they operate.

We do this by participating in consultative committees for regulatory and industry bodies such as Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) and Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA), and lecturing to industry groups on matters affecting them.

We are a full service law firm, and can therefore provide you with legal advice on all aspects of your business in general and life insurance, superannuation, investments, regulation and enforcement, Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), anti-money laundering and funds management.

Our team has a unique combination of both legal and commercial experience in the financial services sector, and the expertise in insurance, superannuation, investments and funds management to provide you with practical, strategic legal advice.

We have a reputation for providing value through:

• harnessing our depth of experience – we avoid ‘reinventing the wheel’ so this saves you costs
• using a practical approach, relying on our depth of practical and legal experience
• providing easy to read, concise advices which can be readily used by both internal legal advisers and people in the business
• allocating matters to staff with the appropriate skill level
• focusing on the key issues
• delivering the advice in an efficient and streamlined format.

Our team members have excellent working relationships with key regulators including APRA, ASIC and the Australian Taxation Office.

We work with many of Australia's leading financial institutions including banks, insurance houses, fund managers, trustees and major corporate, industry and retail superannuation funds in the financial services sector.

Our clients include:

Our multinational client organisations include: