HOW WE CAN HELP

Our team has advised some of the most successful and ground-breaking payments, platform, and crypto businesses operating in Australia and globally. Our experience is across the sector and includes digital wallets, stored value, and payments providers, payment schemes and infrastructure operators, centralised and decentralised platforms and projects (including DeFi and DAO projects), traditional and emerging product distributors, digital currencies and exchanges, neobanks, fractionalised and tokenised assets, marketplace lending and BNPL.

From traditional financial service providers, and fund and asset managers to new product providers and exchanges, our depth of expertise and technical knowledge means we can advise clients on each step along the journey. 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.

Our services

• Digital wallet, stored value and payment providers: Advising clients offering digital wallet solutions that are incidental to the primary purpose of clients’ business as well as digital wallet solutions that are a turnkey service for merchants and consumers. We support clients by offering methods of creating digital representations of value for transactional purposes and gateways that bridge the gap between traditional payment systems and digital currencies.
• Digital currency exchanges and trading platforms: Advising on the establishment and launch of digital currency exchange and trading platforms and advising both new and incumbent organisations on the establishment and offering of digital networks and ecosystems across a range of sectors and industries from privacy and data to agriculture. We have assisted our clients in creating ‘first of its kind’ financial product issues on blockchain based protocols as alternate payment and investment mechanisms.
• DAOs, digital assets, funds and custody: Advising on the establishment, structuring, scaling and decentralisation of platforms and vehicles offering customers rights to participate (eg, in governance, development, asset or content creation) and digitised interests with exposure to synthetic and real world assets. We support clients in understanding capital formation, financial services, and fund regulation in the context of digital assets and the specific challenges involved with ownership, custody and storage of digital assets.
• Digital markets, platforms and infrastructure: Advising on decentralised, peer-to-peer, and disintermediated marketplaces and platforms that offer customers alternative and convenient ways to interact with others and access products and services. We work with clients dealing with the challenge of providing traditional and innovative regulated products and services to a unique customer base, in a responsible and compliant way. This includes advising clients that leverage technology to change the infrastructure of financial services.