Your General Counsel on Demand

 

For start-ups, SME’s and smaller ASX listed companies who need:

  • An in-house lawyer - just not full-time

  • Legal advice which is:

    • High quality

    • Practical, commercially focussed and actionable

    • Timely and cost-effective

Matt Allchurch

Your General Counsel on Demand

 
 

Matt Allchurch is the founder and principal of Allchurch Legal:

  • Over 25 years’ experience as a partner in top-tier/high end corporate law firms (Allens, Clayton Utz, Johnson Winter & Slattery)

  • Highly effective Group General Counsel of Allianz Australia, a complex, highly regulated corporate group

  • Ranked for over 20 years by Chambers Global and other guides as one of Australia’s leading lawyers

Value proposition

  • Top-tier:

    Senior partner quality and experience

  • In-house:

    Part of your team

    In your office or connected to you remotely

    Know you and your business intimately

  • Flexible:

    Commit to as much or as little as you need

    Terminate at any time

  • Cost effective:

    A fraction of the cost of a top-tier partner of a law firm or full-time, high quality General Counsel

Value proposition

 

  • Top-tier, senior partner quality

  • In-house:

    • Part of your team

    • In your office or connected to you remotely

    • Know you and your business intimately

  • Flexible:

    • Commit to as much or as little as you need

    • Terminate at any time

  • Cost effective - a fraction of the cost of a top-tier partner of a law firm or full-time, high quality General Counsel

Matt's approach

 

  • Personable, easy to deal with

  • Sees the big picture – commercially astute

  • Concise and clear

  • Efficient and timely

  • Identifies risks, mitigates them

  • Identifies problems, solves them

  • Adds value

Legal Expertise

Matt has deep and broad experience across the spectrum of corporate and commercial law

 

  • Banking and finance, capital markets

  • Capital raisings (debt, equity, hybrids), multi-layered capital structures

  • Corporate governance and directors’s duties

  • Corporate and business structures, including joint ventures, partnerships, shareholder agreements, workouts and restructurings

  • Financial services regulation, privacy and data protection, AML and CTF

  • Funds management, trusts, managed investment schemes

  • Insurance

  • Litigation, litigation management, internal investigations

  • M&A and M&A financing

  • Major contracts and transactions – structuring, drafting and negotiation

  • Property

Industry Experience

Matt has advised companies in wide range of sectors, from the largest multi-nationals and some of Australia’s largest listed companies to start-ups, SME’s and smaller listed companies

 

  • Banking and investment banking

  • Fintech

  • Food and grocery

  • Funds management

  • Hotel and facilities management

  • Infrastructure

  • Insurance

  • IT and data analytics

  • Professional services

  • Property and property development

  • Retail

  • Student Accommodation

  • Tourism

  • Transport and logistics

  • Venture Capital and private equity

  • Vocational training

  • Waste management

Find out More

Contact

Email: matthew.allchurch@allchurchlegal.com.au

Mobile: 0405 131 793

Website: www.allchurchlegal.com.au

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