HIGHEST TOUCH

Advisory

Markets are won in the room before the rules are written.

Executive advisory, strategic convening and intelligence for institutions shaping, and shaped by, the regulation of digital finance and digital platforms.

01When institutions call us

We advise financial institutions, market infrastructure providers, custodians, payments businesses, scale digital asset firms and global digital platforms on how to position in markets where regulation is still being built.

Our work sits alongside your legal and compliance counsel, never over it. We supply what counsel is not placed to: a current read of where regulators, government and industry are heading, and the relationships to engage them in the right order.

Entering or Expanding

A market is opening or a licence is in view, and the order of engagement will decide the outcome.

Drawn Inside a New Regime

Rules you did not ask for are being written now, and what compliance means in practice is still open.

Market Structure Shifts

A regulatory decision, at home or offshore, changes who you compete with and on what terms.

02Three ways to engage us

One market01

Market Pathway

For institutions deciding how to enter or expand in a single market, or how to respond when a new regime lands, starting with Australia.

Approach

We begin with a structured workshop with your leadership, then test the thinking through targeted conversations with the stakeholders who matter. We work through six questions: pathway, structure, precedent, stakeholders, risk and sequencing.

Outcome

You leave with a decision-grade report setting out your position, the order of engagement and the risks worth pricing. The report is the artefact. The capability is the product.

Several markets02

Regional Read

For institutions whose strategy spans more than one jurisdiction.

Approach

We extend the pathway across the Asia-Pacific markets where we are already engaged, including New Zealand, Singapore and Hong Kong. Because we are already in the room in these markets, a regional view does not mean starting again in each.

Outcome

You leave with a comparative view of where to move first, where to wait and where conditions do not yet support entry. We are as clear about the closed doors as the open ones.

Ongoing03

Retained Position

For institutions that need a standing presence while rules and relationships move.

Approach

An ongoing advisory relationship: current intelligence as codes, guidance and enforcement priorities shift, counsel ahead of consultations and engagements, and access to our convening programme where it serves your position.

Outcome

You hold an operating capability in the market, rather than a report that dates.

03How we work

Alongside Counsel

We shape position and sequence. Legal advice stays with your lawyers.

Selective By Design

We act for a small number of institutions in any one regime, with conflicts disclosed at instruction.

Honest About The Ground

We tell you where a market is hostile as readily as where it is open. We do not promise outcomes.

We create networks. We curate clients.

Request a briefing

Tell us the market and the decision in front of you. We will arrange a conversation with Steve Vallas or Richelle Cox.

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