James Moore is a Partner in HWLE’s National Financial Services Advisory team, part of the Corporate and Commercial Group. James has 30 years’ experience in this area. He is recognised for offering practical, plain English, and commercial advice, on all aspects of financial services laws.
Key areas of expertise include retail financial services (consumer credit, payment systems, FinTech and electronic commerce, deposit and transaction products), privacy law, anti-money laundering, unfair contract terms laws and banking system regulation. He acts for established financial services firms and new entrants, including by developing structures that take advantage of regulatory exemptions and relief. He assists with customer-facing agreements and collateral, and with commercial agreements. He acts for clients across a broad range of industries, and government entities on privacy and data protection issues and AML.
James is recognised in the Legal 500 as ‘very knowledgeable’ regulatory expert with a ‘high profile in the sector’ and in Best Lawyers™ Australia for Financial Institutions, and for Privacy and Data Security Law. He is a long-term member of the Financial Services, Privacy, and Digital Commerce Committees of the Business Section of the Law Council of Australia.
Expertise
Experience
- A financial institution Advising on conversion from ADI status.
- Major Australian banks Advising on the Design and Distribution Obligation and BCoP refresh.
- Major Australian mutual banks advice on integration issues as part of a merger.
- A payments provider Advising with unfair contract terms review across all documents.
- National retail lender Advising with development of new continuing credit product.
- International airline Advising with anti-SPAM advice.
