Financial Services Law Oceania

EY Oceania Financial Services Law team focuses on servicing the legal needs of EY financial services clients. We assist our clients with all aspects of financial services law, including fund formation and structuring, banking and capital markets regulation, product disclosure and distribution, compliance and licensing.


Wealth and Asset Management

We advise domestic and international fund managers across all legal issues, including:

  • Fund establishment and structuring
  • Product disclosure and distribution
  • Licensing and regulatory change

Our Wealth and Asset Management law team is led by Nikki Bentley, who is recognised as a leading lawyer in Investment Funds and Financial Services Regulation by Chambers Asia Pacific. We cover a range of asset classes including hedge funds, private equity, alternative investments, equities and real estate. We are the only firm with a specialist market leading integrated team of highly experienced lawyers, tax professionals and auditors serving the Alternative funds industry.

Nikki is knowledgeable, responsive and very practical. She can provide detail-written advice or simply act as a sounding board over the phone.
Nikki’s a high-quality lawyer who has an excellent understanding of our company, having advised us over a number of years.

Banking and Capital Markets

We advise top-tier banks and credit institutions on a broad spectrum of financial services issues including:

  • Prudential and banking regulation
  • Regulatory and compliance
  • Blockchain, fintech and payments
  • ESG frameworks

Our Banking and Capital Markets team is led by industry professionals Tania Sibree and Paul Clews, who have decades of experience in this sector across Australia, New Zealand, the US, UK and Hong Kong. Our broad range of services is designed to address the unique challenges faced by the clients in this dynamic industry. With EY Law, you can feel confident in our deep knowledge and our ambition to helping you navigate the complex legal landscape.

What EY can do for you?

We know our clients, understand their businesses and value the relationships we form with them. We are on top of the latest legislative and commercial developments enabling us to provide exceptional legal services with practical and innovative recommendations.

As part of the wider EY network, we bring appropriate perspectives incorporating insight from EY tax, risk, strategy, transactions, technology, people advisory services and audit services from across the globe.

While we can operate as standalone legal advisors, we often work as part of highly integrated EY team helping resolve multidisciplinary problems, such as complex regulatory change or organisation transformation projects. Our ability to bring global scale and multidisciplinary teams to help resolve complex issues sets us apart from other Oceania law firms.

Sustainability in financial services

A sustainable world needs sustainable finance. We are helping to build a better financial services industry – one that is stronger, fairer and more sustainable by helping organizations to create value, accelerate the transition, and make a measurable difference.

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