About

Provided by Gilbert + Tobin

Our team of Fintech lawyers have advised some of the most successful and ground-breaking fintech businesses operating in Australia and globally. Our experience is across the sector and includes financial institutions, neobanks, fund and asset managers, payments and digital wallet providers, platforms, product distributors, marketplace lending, fractionalised and tokenised assets, digital currencies and exchanges.

Our experience traverses the lifespan of business - from workshopping very early stage concepts to build scalable and marketable solutions, to advising founder-held and start-up businesses through the process of obtaining VC or PE money, to working with established businesses looking to pivot or deliver product enhancements and new service offerings.


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FinTech Legal - Australia

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What the Team is Known For

Gilbert + Tobin has expertise in fundraising, M&A, technology and competition law. The firm is particularly well regarded for financial regulatory matters concerning payment platforms and neobanks. It acts for domestic and international insurance, banking and real estate businesses, as well as tech companies, on token sales, digital wealth management, crowdfunding and corporate investment structures.

Work Highlights

  • Gilbert + Tobin advised Block Earner on financial services regulations and its proceedings with ASIC.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Peter Reeves
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Peter Reeves is a market-leading adviser on the technical and regulatory aspects of FinTech for Gilbert + Tobin. He has expertise in advising on decentralised finance, decentralised autonomous organisations and digital currency exchanges.

Peter advises with a clear sense of how legal issues intersect with product design, business priorities and regulatory expectations.

Peter is responsive, accessible and consistently thoughtful in his approach. He engages constructively with stakeholders and communicates complex advice in a clear, actionable and tailored way.

Peter Reeves is very sophisticated in terms of his understanding of the FinTech and crypto industry. He is also commercial in his thinking and finds solutions to our problems.

When Australia's most innovative payment companies need to navigate the intersection of traditional finance and emerging blockchain technology, they turn to Peter Reeves.

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Simon Burns
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Simon Burns is recognised for his focus on technology and FinTech work, such as digital payment systems. He is also noted for his work handling blockchain and digital asset matters.

Simon is fantastic. He really knows his stuff but he comes across as very humble.

Simon has a deep understanding of our core business and a vision of how to get the job done quickly and efficiently.

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Rachel Walker
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Rachel Walker recently joined Gilbert + Tobin's financial services regulatory group as a partner. Walker advises on consumer loans, 'buy now, pay later' offers and virtual credit card products, among other FinTech matters.

Rachel Walker is extremely knowledgeable and delivers a great service.

What Rachel does incredibly well is that she balances law and business pragmatism very well. She has a business-first mindset; she always comes with solutions and is friendly.

Rachel is an extremely knowledgeable and delivers great service.

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Peter Reeves
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Simon Burns
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Rachel Walker
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Members

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Clients

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Airwallex

Bakkt

Binance

Carnival

Cuscal

Evernoe

Great Southern Bank

Hyperwallet

MYOB

Moonpay

OnDeck

Tencent

Tyro

Visa

Wise

Industries

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DAO Governance and Capital Formation

Decentralised Finance

Digital Assests

Digital Currency Exchanges

Digital Platforms and Markets

Digital Wallets

Financial Services Regulation

Funds

Stored Value and Payments