Access to clear, actionable legal guidance enables you to manage and grow your financial services business in a highly regulated market. PMC Legal provides acute, commercially and regulatory-focused advice to new market entrants and established, mature businesses offering managed funds products and investment solutions to the Australian market.
Our lawyers combine decades of in-house and private practice expertise with ongoing contributions to top industry bodies. This experience enables us to solve real-world regulatory and commercial challenges as they exist in the current market, while preparing clients for long-term growth and resilience.
Acting as an extension of your team, PMC Legal’s experts provide the custom support and alignment needed to remain compliant and thrive across a spread of managed funds services. If you seek proactive legal guidance, explore how we can help you navigate the regulatory landscape and move towards commercial success.
Our legal specialists bring deep-sector expertise that supports clients in innovating and driving growth, while keeping compliance and governance front and centre. Our services include:
Our Core Funds team specialises in establishing wholesale and retail managed funds across all asset classes. We advise on fund formation, offering and disclosure documents, service provider appointments and daily management of your funds vehicles.
With extensive experience across quoted, dual-access, unquoted and wholesale managed funds, as well as offshore structures and feeder funds, we help clients launch competitive, compliant, premium offerings and position funds for long-term performance.
If you need help with AFS licensing, AML/CTF compliance or financial services law advice, speak with our regulatory experts. Our team actively contributes to industry discussions and shapes financial services regulation, ensuring clients receive forward-thinking, practical guidance on Australia’s evolving financial market conditions.
Governance, risk and compliance services help organisations translate legal and regulatory obligations into operational processes. Drawing on extensive in-house experience, our strategic guidance helps combine legal requirements with risk management and governance frameworks, ensuring practical and efficient implementation of your obligations.
Our Alternative Funds team focuses on private equity, venture capital, private credit and hedge funds. We advise on ESVCLP and VCLP formation and registration, stapled trusts, co-investment and carry vehicles, and cornerstone investor negotiations. Working closely with your specialist tax advisers, we advise on innovative fund structures that meet the bespoke needs of your investors.
Acting for fund managers of all sizes, we deliver agile, commercial and cost-effective legal solutions across private markets, helping fund managers structure, launch and manage funds efficiently while meeting regulatory requirements.
Our corporate practice supports both Core and Alternative funds clients through:
Backed by more than 30 years of commercial experience, our commercial lawyers provide practical, accessible advice that balances legal precision with sound business acumen across complex transactions and restructures.
The right financial services legal advice ensures you stay compliant, competitive and ready to leverage new opportunities. If you need expert, practical legal guidance for your financial services business, get in touch with the team at PMC Legal.