Lawyers for the finance sector

Commercial, technology and regulatory legal advice for banks, lenders, fintechs, payment providers, and other financial services businesses.

Commercial and technology
- Technology procurement
- SaaS agreements
- Managed services
- Outsourcing
- Strategic supplier contracts
- CPS 230-related contracting
Regulatory and compliance
- Financial services regulation
- Consumer credit
- AML/CTF
- Privacy
- Regulatory change projects
- AFSL and ACL issues
Governance and risk
- Board and executive advice
- Governance frameworks
- Policies and procedures
- Incident management
- Regulatory engagement
Flexible legal counsel
- Ongoing legal support
- Overflow capacity
- Project support
- Fractional legal function
- Personalised: Direct access to senior lawyers who take the time to understand your organisation, objectives and risk profile.
- Practical: Commercially focused advice that helps you make decisions and move projects forward.
- Quality: Deep expertise, rigorous analysis and an unwavering commitment to professional excellence.
- Banks
- Mutual banks and credit unions
- Non-bank lenders
- Payments service providers
- Insurers
- Intermediaries and brokers
- Private credit
- Fintechs
- Startups

Why Dwyer Harris?

Financial services law is what we do

Our lawyers have extensive experience advising financial institutions and regulated businesses.

We combine private practice and in-house experience to deliver advice that is practical, commercially focused and grounded in how financial services businesses actually operate.

Areas of practice include

Banking and finance
Consumer credit
Financial services regulation
AML/CTF
Privacy
Payments
Outsourcing and contracts
Governance and risk management

Our guiding principles

Excellence

We strive to be world’s best in our areas of expertise. We have extensive experience in our areas of practice both in Australia and internationally. Each matter is managed by a Legal Director, so you can be sure your matter is in good hands.

Responsiveness

We are responsive to our clients’ deadlines and how they want their legal services delivered. Our advice is practical and commercial. We also collaborate with other law firms so that our clients get the best skill mix for each project.

Value

Having managed in-house legal budgets, we appreciate that clients are looking for good value. We are flexible and transparent in our methods of charging for legal services and we explore with our clients the best fee package. We think our service offering represents some of the best value around.