About

We are an integrated professional services firm providing legal, compliance and other advisory services to solve complex business problems.

Established in 2013, we were founded to offer clients “The New Way” in professional services – one of the first of its kind. With this foresight and the application of our respective disciplines, high capability talent and agile commercial models we ensure our clients’ complex business problems are solved.

Our team of lawyers (many from top-tier law firms) have decades of experience in mergers & acquisitions; corporate and commercial law; governance, compliance and regulation; finance; IT; IP; real property; contracting; projects and employment law. Our firm’s culture is based on providing clients with high value, technical (but pragmatic), advice.

Our global clients are based in Australia, United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada, Singapore, China and Hong Kong and include both public and private companies, start-ups through to mature entities. Our integrated advisory approach and commercial acumen is why they keep coming back to us.

Our purpose and values is at the core of everything we do for our clients. View these here.

We have a strategic partnership with GRC Solutions, leaders in the Governance, Risk and Compliance training space. Our partnership allows us to provide centralised and agile legal, consulting, governance and compliance services to the benefit of our clients.

Integrated
Multi-Disciplinary Advice

Ash St. provides fully integrated and independent expert advice that delivers robust, high quality business solutions quickly and cost effectively. Strong legal backgrounds combine with other professions including corporate finance, tax, human resources, strategy and management consulting and organisational design to challenge traditional thinking without the cognitive bias that may exist in any one professional discipline.

High
Capability Talent

Ash St. has built a team of senior “experts”, each with lengthy proven experience in their professional fields and who were chosen for their ability to work collaboratively to deliver client solutions. Ash St. has moved away from the disruptive ‘patch protection’ behaviour that sometimes exists in professional services firms as we believe this does not best serve the client. Our experts have the benefit of broad industry networks that we use to benefit our clients.

Agile
Commercial Models

Ash St. is a boutique firm and our size affords us low fixed overheads so that we can concentrate the full resources of our firm on client matters. This makes work interesting and fun for our teams and clients benefit from our ability to formulate creative commercial models to suit their specific needs, whether they are a start-up, an ASX100 or a multinational company. Our size permits an agility rarely seen in professional services.

Legal Services

Ash Street Partners Pty Ltd is a registered law practice under The Law Society of New South Wales and provides a full range of services in the Business-to-Business market.

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Corporate & M&A
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Projects & Finance
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Disputes & Litigation
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IT & IP
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Workplace Relations
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Governance, Compliance & Regulation

Governance, Compliance And Regulation

Ash St. provides other Advisory Services at Board and Executive level around the proven characteristics of sustained business success.

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AML/CTF Governance, Compliance & Regulation Advice

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AML/CTF Governance, Compliance & Regulation Advice

The GCR Team has extensive experience in anti-money laundering/counter terrorism financing (AML/CTF) requirements. Their practical in-house experience in the development and implementation of AML/CTF programs in organisations of varying sizes sets them apart from other lawyers. Their advice is tailored to your organisation, informed by real life personal experiences of implementing processes, compliant and can be successfully implemented The GCR Team have extensive regulatory experience with AUSTRAC and can assist your organisation with all levels of activity from clarification on regulatory approaches through to responding to concerns over compliance with statutory requirements. For more information, please click here.

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Independent Board Assessments

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Independent Board Assessments

The GCR Team are able to provide you with an independent review of board performance against key performance indicators. Their review criteria has been developed having regard to recognised principles of good governance and has also been tailored to review governance requirements for specific types of entities such as listed companies and superannuation boards. The Board services also extend to reviewing and advising on specific performance areas such as the adequacy and appropriateness of board reporting (particularly as this relates to compliance reporting). For more information, please click here.

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Regulatory Change Support

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Regulatory Change Support

The GCR Team are particularly focused on the challenges organisations face in the implementation of regulatory change, particularly where that change is rapid and constant. They can develop implementation packages for you with a key focus on practicality and scalability. For more information, please ,click here.

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Independent Experts

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Independent Experts

The GCR Team can act as independent experts to review or develop compliance actions arising from Regulator actions such as an Enforceable Undertaking and conduct remediation reviews, regulatory change or enhancement programs to provide independence assurance to the Boards, executive management or regulators on the effectiveness of the program. For more information, please click here.

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RegTech

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RegTech

The GCR Team recognise the importance of RegTech in today’s regulatory and compliance environment and can assist you in effectively implementing your RegTech solution in a range of ways including reviewing the solution to ensure it achieves the desired compliance outcome, advising or assisting with projects to implement the solution or performing an independent review post implementation. The GCR Team are proud supporters and members of the RegTech Association. For more information, please click here.

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SMEs For Regulatory/Compliance Projects

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SMEs For Regulatory/Compliance Projects

The GCR Team’s deep regulatory and compliance expertise means that they can effectively guide and direct large scale enhancement, remediation and regulatory change projects where you need a ‘safe pair of hands’ to ensure you achieve the objectives of your project. The GCR Team are highly experienced in the delivery of compliance and regulatory projects and can easily work with your internal or external project teams to provide technical subject matter expertise in a wide range of legislative regimes. For more information, please click here.

Solutions

To demonstrate the New Way in Professional Services we have responded to overwhelming client requests for pre-defined Solutions to common business needs that have transparent pricing and can be implemented quickly.

Whistleblower Essentials Whistleblower Essentials whistleblower act essentials package
BEAR Toolkit BEAR Toolkit to help meet your BEAR obligations
Legal Audit Legal Audit assessing minimum requirements for SMEs
Governance Review Governance Review structured assessment
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Publications

A Practical Guide for Tackling DADO 13th November 2019
AUSTRAC Risk Assessment Oct 2019 | Australia’s Mutual Banking Sector | Practice Summary Reports 13th November 2019
Ash St. in Governance Directions October 2019 | The BEAR for Super & Insurance 29th October 2019
Culture Ignited: A Perfect Storm 16 September 2019
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Team

Lyn Woods Director - MBA

Lyn is the CEO and a Director providing advice to clients on areas of business strategy, leadership, talent management, organisational design, and employment risk matters. Her background includes senior roles in global brand corporations and top-tier law firms. Lyn is also a Non-Executive Director for an Australian financial services company, a leading compliance training company and a global manufacturer.

Peter Shaw Director - MBA BSc LLB

Peter is top-tier trained with a focus on corporate/commercial advice specifically on public and private M&A transactions (nominated for M&A Advisor of the Year 2018), equity capital markets, private equity, strategic joint ventures and corporate governance. Peter acts for substantial private companies, investors and family offices and for a broad range of early stage companies. Peter is also an Alumni Council member of The University of Sydney.

Shaun McGushin Director - MBA LLB

Shaun is one of Australia’s most experienced advisers on infrastructure and finance, including greenfield and brownfield projects, buying and selling infrastructure assets, public private partnerships, project finance, corporate finance, acquisition and asset finance, capital markets and workouts. Shaun has over 30 years’ experience advising local and international corporates on a wide range of transactions with particular focus on the infrastructure, power, energy and resources industries.

Samantha Carroll Practice Director Governance, Compliance & Regulation

Samantha is a governance, compliance and regulation expert with 10 years’ experience in the Governance and Compliance division of a top-tier law firm and three years as the Head of Compliance for a mid-tier bank. Samantha has significant experience advising public and private sector clients on the implementation, upgrading and review of their governance and compliance systems. Samantha is an accredited Governance, Risk and Compliance professional and Fellow GRC Institute and Deputy Chair of BABI Youth and Family Service Board and Fellow GIA.

Janna Parfenova Associate Director - LLM LLB

Janna has worked with a focus on corporate/commercial advice specifically on public and private M&A transactions, private equity, venture capital and corporate governance. Janna acts on share and business sale transactions, public takeovers and schemes of arrangement. She has advised on share purchase and option plans, employee incentive schemes, convertible note issues and private placements. Janna is an accredited Family Business Australia adviser and also a fluent Russian speaker.

Andrew Calvin Associate Director - LLM LLB

Andrew has a very strong legal and commercial background in information technology, social media, procurement, systems integration, commercial property, construction, infrastructure, complex property development, intellectual property, dispute resolution and corporate governance. These skills have been gained in international private practice, a multi-national ASX-listed group, and Australian Federal and State corporations. Andrew also writes on legal technology for the Journal of the Law Society of New South Wales.

Katrecia March Special Counsel - LLM LLB GAICD

Katrecia is a top-tier trained, corporate/M&A lawyer, with nearly 20 years’ experience, specialising in both advisory and transactional work. She has particular expertise in corporate governance and corporate actions, including share buy-backs, capital reductions, directors’ duties, meeting procedure and regulatory compliance. Katrecia is also a notary public, a fellow of the Governance Institute of Australia, and a specialist advisor with respect to corporate governance for Director Assist (a service operated by IFX Legal in partnership with the Australian Institute of Company Directors).

Michelle Bradshaw Special Counsel - BCom (Hons) LLB (Hons) GradDipRiskMgmt&CorpGov

Michelle is a governance, compliance and regulation expert with direct experience managing engagement with regulators and various other government and non-government stakeholders. She has worked both in the private sector, banking institutions and in the public sector for start-up government entities setting up legal and compliance functions. Michelle also has significant experience advising on complex finance transactions including 11 years’ experience as a lawyer and consultant for a leading international law firm. Michelle is a Fellow of the Governance Institute of Australia.

Daniel Gallagher Lawyer | Projects & Finance

Daniel recently completed his law degree through the UNSW and is a graduate in our Projects & Finance practice.

Chris Barton Employment Law Consultant

Chris has worked for a broad range of private and public sector clients and has over 30 years' experience in all aspects of employee relations including employment law, workplace relations, occupational health & safety, and discrimination and equal opportunity law.

Danny Sankey Litigation Consultant

Danny is a highly regarded and respected Litigation Lawyer, has practised as a barrister in common law, and for many years has acted and continues to work as General Counsel for the CPS group of companies and consultant for Ash St. Legal & Advisory.

Catherine Tomic Head of Marketing & Development

Catherine has over 15 years’ experience as a professional marketer and has represented top tier financial services organisations with domestic and global footprints. She is deeply client centric, passionate about the customer journey as well as helping companies grow. Catherine leads the marketing & development function at Ash St.

Events

COBA 2019 | Gold Coast 10 to 12 November 2019
GRC Compliance Forums | 22 to 30 October 2019 22 October 2019
Whistleblower Webinar 4 July 2019 at 1pm (AEST)
29th Annual Credit Law Conference 4-6 September 2019
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Contact

You are invited to contact Ash St. using the form below, visiting us at our offices or calling our reception. Whatever method you choose you are assured of a friendly response and we will do our utmost to prove we are The New Way in Professional Services.

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Level 21, 1 York Street
Sydney NSW 2000
Australia

+61 2 8651 8700