Gilbert + Tobin, Financial Services Regulation | Chambers Asia-Pacific Profile

About

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Financial Services Regulation

Our Financial Services Regulation team helps clients navigate complex regulatory landscapes, focusing on compliance and gaining a strategic advantage.

How we can help

It’s our business to keep up with the regulatory, social and commercial challenges of the financial services industry. With this knowledge, our experienced team gives clear and focused legal advice so our clients can move forward with assurance. We’re also great at getting to the bottom of complex issues, identifying problems and developing strategic plans to fix them. Our clients rely on us through the full commercial landscape, from platform development, products and transactional advice to regulatory engagement, risk, compliance programs and investigations. We have a seat at the table with all major regulators including ASIC, APRA, ACCC, OAIC, ATO and AUSTRAC. This keeps us well informed, as well as playing a part in shaping the development of financial services regulation in consultations, significant investigations and enforcement proceedings.

Services

Financial services regulation
Fintech, Crypto and web3
Payments
Superannuation
Insurance
Consumer and retail
Risk and compliance
Institutional banking
Governance, accountability and remuneration
Regulatory change
Investigations

Chambers Review

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Financial Services Regulation - Australia

Band 2

What the Team is Known For

Gilbert + Tobin maintains a highly regarded regulatory dispute resolution team with a strong following among financial services clients. The team also actively advises on front-end regulatory matters, with noteworthy capability in the regulation of new fintech products, including licensing for new financial products and digital payment systems. The firm's key clients include major banks, accounting firms, asset management companies and other financial services participants.

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Work Highlights

Gilbert + Tobin defended Auto & General in Federal Court proceedings brought by ASIC alleging a term in its home and contents insurance product disclosure statements was unfair.

Strengths

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This department has an absolute command of the law and an ability to provide comprehensive and clear advice in an otherwise uncertain regulatory environment.

Financial Services Regulation respondent
Asia-Pacific

This department has an absolute command of the law and an ability to provide comprehensive and clear advice in an otherwise uncertain regulatory environment.

Financial Services Regulation respondent
Asia-Pacific

Notable Practitioners

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Richard Harris

Band 2

Richard Harris is well-regarded for his contentious practice, frequently acting for banks and other financial services clients on disputes.

Richard is very good at highlighting and synthesising and very good at summarising things into a coherent argument. He has phenomenal attention and is good at managing his clients.

He was able to take interlinked issues and deal with them one by one, but not lose sight of the end goal that we had in mind. He was empathetic but sure of himself, which gave me a lot of confidence.

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Peter Reeves

Band 4

Peter Reeves is particularly well noted for his work in the fintech space, frequently assisting clients on matters such as those involving payment systems and cryptocurrency.

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Silvana Wood

Band 4

Silvana Wood advises a broad spectrum of financial services clients, including superannuation funds and insurers, on compliance and investigatory matters involving key regulatory regimes such as the Banking Executive Accountability Regime and the Financial Accountability Regime. She also manages reporting obligations and engagement with regulators.

She is very thorough, careful and considered but still pragmatic. Her experience working with the regulator is evident in the quality of advice she provides.

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Rachel Walker

Up and Coming

Rachel Walker advises clients on a wide range of regulatory matters. Her work spans credit compliance, licensing and product development, with a strong focus on helping clients navigate regulatory environments and engagement with regulators.

Rachel is a great communicator. She is pragmatic, solutions-focused and effective at managing risk.

Rachel solves problems for us from a unique but business-first perspective. What she does incredibly well is balance law and business pragmatism. She always comes up with solutions.

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