Chambers Review
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Financial Services Regulation - Australia
What the Team is Known For
Piper Alderman is well reputed for its expertise and experience advising on licensing and compliance in the fintech, regtech and digital currency spaces. The team regularly assist with anti-money laundering, counter-terrorism financing and financial sanctions, and is also familiar with compliance for services involving consumer credit, digital payments, yield and lending products. The firm is noted for handling investigations and enforcement actions.
Strengths
They are highly communicative and clear. They are thorough and, most importantly, in addition to providing thoughtful advice, they are very deeply practical.
They understood our end-to-end customer experience and advised on very technical points as required.
Work Highlights
Piper Alderman assisted Web3 Security Alliance and its backers, including A16Z Crypto, on Whitehat safe harbour agreements, which involved consideration of financial services, anti-money laundering and sanctions
regulations.
Notable practitioners
Andrea Beatty is a well-regarded lawyer both in the payments space and on consumer protection issues.
Andrea Beatty a well-known legal practitioner in financial services regulatory work.