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Partner
Head of Financial Services
Corporate & Commercial
Current practice
Harry's practice focuses extensively on financial services, corporate advisory and general corporate and commercial work, including:
- managed investment schemes, both retail and wholesale, listed and unlisted, including property funds and syndicates, private equity funds, hedge funds, domestic and international securities funds, mortgage funds, common funds and agricultural funds;
- structured products;
- financial services advice including licensing and product disclosure;
- product disclosure statement and prospectus preparation and advice for public offers of managed investment interests and securities;
- Corporations Act and ASX Listing Rules advice;
- mergers, acquisitions and divestments, particularly in the financial planning industry;
- commercial transactions;
- superannuation, including self-managed and public offer funds; and
- AML/CTF programs and advice.
Clients and recent experience
Harry has represented a number of listed public companies, large private companies and government organisations. His clients include all types of financial services businesses, including responsible entities, financial planners, superannuation funds, investment advisers, insurance brokers, corporate advisers and accountants.
Harry’s recent matters include:
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establishing new wholesale funds in the bioscience and resources sectors;
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numerous acquisitions and divestments of financial planning practices aligned to a number of listed financial services industry participants;
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acting for the subsidiary of a listed property fund management company in respect of its retail property funds;
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acting for the promoters of a number of wholesale and retail property syndicates, both locally and internationally;
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compliance reviews of large Australian Financial Service Licence holders;
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reviewing disclosure documents including information memoranda, product disclosure statements, statements of advice, statements of additional advice, financial services guides and marketing material;
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acting for a subsidiary of a listed company in respect of licensing, structuring, establishment and capital raising for a new water fund;
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acting for a subsidiary of a listed company in relation to a variety of funds management matters and financial services business acquisitions;
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advising a multi-national foreign financial services provider in relation to obtaining ASIC licensing and disclosure relief in order to provide financial services in Australia; and
- acting for financial services licensees in respect of ASIC enforcement.
Qualifications and professional affiliations
Harry has a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting) from Monash University, and a Graduate Diploma (Applied Finance and Investment) from the Securities Institute of Australia (now Financial Services Institute of Australia (Finsia)). He became partner in 2006.
Harry is a Fellow of Finsia, a member of the Law Institute of Victoria, a member of the Executive Committee of the Melbourne Chapter of the Financial Planning Association. Hall & Wilcox is supporting member of the Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA).
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