Banking & finance lawyer · in-house · investment banking · international development finance
A banking & finance lawyer who still papers the deals — and teaches from them.
The credibility of everything here rests on one thing: this is not a full-time academic writing about the market from the outside. It is a practising lawyer bringing real transactions and live regulatory developments into the room — in Melbourne, Sydney, Frankfurt and Florence.
The through-line across four subjects is a single discipline. Read the promise finance makes — that a bond is green, that a fund has impact, that a clause is market-standard, that an AI tool transforms the work — against the document that has to deliver it. Evidence-led, fair, and specific. The point is the discussion, not the last word.
Practice spanning in-house counsel and investment banking, across Australia, the Netherlands and international development finance — and across asset classes. That experience is the engine of everything taught here: real transactions and live regulation, brought into the room.
Postgraduate and LLM teaching at Melbourne Law School (University of Melbourne) and Sydney Law School (University of Sydney), plus an executive masterclass on AI in legal practice.
Advisory work for financial institutions and development finance institutions — framework review, use-of-proceeds and second-party-opinion scope, and board-level guidance on AI in legal practice.
A regular, no-fluff read on where sustainable finance, impact and legal AI are really heading — named instruments, real rulings, the hard question.
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