Financial Services Oceania

EY’s Oceania Financial Services Law Team is a legal practice focused on servicing EY’s financial services clients. We provide integrated legal, tax, risk and strategic business consulting services to assist our clients in launching new product and service offerings, adapt to regulatory change and enhance their regulatory compliance and risk management frameworks.

Related topics Financial Services Banking and capital markets Consulting Law Wealth and asset management

The team

Nikki Bentley

Nikki Bentley

EY Oceania Financial Services Law Partner, Wealth and Asset Management Law Sector Lead, Oceania Hedge Funds AGP Co-Lead

Tania Sibree

Tania Sibree

Oceania Financial Services, Law, Partner

Paul Clews

Paul Clews

Oceania Financial Services Law, Partner

What EY can do for you?

We get to know our clients, understand their businesses and value the relationships we form with them. Our team members value integrity, inclusiveness, flexibility and team orientation. We stay on top of the latest legislative and other developments enabling us to deliver a high standard of legal services with practical and innovative solutions.

  • We are committed to the law and excellent legal and commercial outcomes for our clients.
  • We have excellent partner availability.
  • We are trusted and knowledgeable legal professionals involved in legislative and policy development in our relationships with industry bodies, regulators and government.
  • We have deep industry sector expertise working collaboratively with our EY experts across tax, risk, strategy, transactions, technology, people advisory services and audit.
  • We bring global perspectives and insights.

Our service offerings:

  • New financial products and services
  • Fund establishments, disclosure and distribution
  • Superannuation mergers and trustee duties
  • Insurance disclosures and contracts
  • Prudential and banking regulation
  • Cryptocurrency and payments
  • Financial crime programs and remediation
  • ESG frameworks
  • Data privacy and cyber security
  • Licenses and registrations
  • Regulator interactions
  • Compliance frameworks
  • Obligations inventories
  • Transactions due diligence

EY Law teams advise in the financial services sector on:

  • Banking and capital markets law

    EY Law teams are trusted legal business advisors to financial institutions globally. Our banking and capital markets law experts bring significant experience and understanding of the client's objectives to develop key strategies at each phase of a project, including: 

    • Corporate governance
    • Due diligence
    • IPOs
    • Prospectus
    • Research
    • Marketing
    • Listing
    • Regulatory disclosure and reporting requirements
    • Risk management (including third-party risk management)
    • Outsourcing (including cloud)
    • Regulatory capital
    • Preparation of contracts and customer documentation

  • Wealth and asset management law

    The wealth and asset management sector is characterized by increasing competition, stricter supervisory control and growing regulation. This makes the structuring and distribution of investment funds progressively more complex. We provide comprehensive advice in the following areas: 

    • Set-up of investment and investment stock corporations
    • Legal and tax planning of investment funds
    • Sales notifications and notification procedures for investment funds
    • Structuring of asset management
    • Execution of fund restructuring and fund mergers
    • Preparation of contract documentation
    • Fund-related capital market, supervisory, distribution and competition law
    • Regulatory advice for capital management business companies (risk management, reporting, outsourcing)

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