Green bonds claim greenness. Impact funds claim impact. “Market standard” claims market standard. Legal AI claims transformation. A practising finance lawyer asks the same question of all of them — does it actually deliver?
Sustainable finance, impact investing, transaction documentation and legal AI look like four different subjects. They are four rooms where the same question gets asked: does the claim survive contact with the paper that has to carry it?
That is what a practising lawyer does that a commentator cannot — read the framework against the allocation report, the step-up against the covenant, the vendor's demo against the engagement letter. Evidence-led, fair, and specific. Discussion, not verdict.
A teaching and advisory practice run by a banking & finance lawyer who still papers the deals — bringing real transactions and live regulatory developments into the classroom and to the boardroom, in Australia and Europe.
Three masters-level (LLM) courses taught intensively in Australia — where the rooms mix students and working practitioners — plus an executive masterclass on legal AI and guest teaching across Europe and the Asia-Pacific. All grounded in current market practice.
Legal structures, instruments and regulatory frameworks in impact investing, blended finance, and development finance.
Green, social and sustainability-linked instruments, ESG regulation, and the law that is doing the heavy lifting.
How the deals are actually papered — the documentation and market practice behind cross-border finance.
A masterclass for General Counsel, partners, senior associates and legal ops — cutting through the AI hype to what actually changes legal work.
The assessment is built from real transaction experience — the closest thing to practice a university offers.
We negotiate and challenge in class — half the room for the fund, half for the investor — until someone blinks.
Live regulation, current deals and guest practitioners — what you learn is what the market is doing now.
A deliberate diversity of views in every course — senior practitioners brought into the room straight from live deals, from Australia and overseas. Guests have included lawyers from King & Wood Mallesons, MinterEllison and Norton Rose Fulbright, counsel from the World Bank, development-finance specialists from IFC, DEG and FMO, and investors including Australia's Future Fund and Scale Investors.
A regular, no-fluff read on where sustainable finance, impact and legal AI are really heading — named instruments, real rulings, the hard question. No hype, no growth-guru noise.
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