Financial products and services

Australia’s financial services laws are among the most complex in the world. Our mission is to provide you with considered financial services legal advice to navigate these complex laws, ensuring understanding and compliance with your legal obligations and facilitating confident and successful investment and financial transactions within the framework of banking law and financial regulations.

Our experience

  • Regulatory investigations and engagement
  • Payment systems and payment services
  • Managed investment and property funds
  • Loan and security documentation
  • AFSL licensing and obligations
  • Financial services regulatory and prudential framework
  • Fundraising – due diligence, preparing prospectuses, product disclosure statements and other disclosure documents, regulatory filings and engagement with investors, underwriters and regulators
  • Internal and external dispute resolution on behalf of financial firms including AFCA complaints
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Our Impact

Our lawyers have:

  • 01
    Obtained favourable recommendations from AFCA and its predecessors involving insurance disputes, financial advice disputes, foreign exchange facilities and complex derivatives products.
  • 02
    Negotiated settlements within the framework of consumer financial redress programs.
  • 03
    Experience in lending products, including foreign currency loans, escrow arrangements, syndicated facilities (including greenshoe options) and securities.
  • 04
    Assisted in an initial fundraising by a start-up brewery from 11 investor groups, including domestic and foreign disclosure requirements.

Your financial services team

Matthew Kumnick
Director
Matthew has more than 17 years of experience practising law and has cultivated a broad-based practice across residential and commercial property development and leasing, commercial litigation, insolvency, and corporate and commercial law. In the property space, Matthew acts for property developers, owners, investors, landlords, project managers and contractors across various industries, and his clients include […]