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Alt Law prepares dynamic organisations for deep uncertainty & complex futures with focused legal advice & strategy.

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Law Reimagined

At the nexus of law, strategy & emerging tech you find Alt Law

Are you at the vanguard of your industry and facing unique challenges not yet encountered? Pushing the frontier of regulation or operating with regulatory uncertainty?

Alt Law identifies opportunity, navigates uncertainty and produces clarity of objective for ambitious businesses.

Our focus is on the future of law, specifically the grey areas that exist where regulation and innovation resist one another with vigour.

We are not a commercial law firm. We are a specialist legal advice & strategy shop.

Our remit is simple :

grow

We facilitate success & advance growth.

de-risk

We act as spotter for risk in rapid-clip & uncertain legal environments

disrupt

We help clients discover, test & ship new products

Capabilities
CAPABILITIES

Manage Complexity

Complex problems require the coordination of specialist advice and legal expertise. We develop wholistic advice and strategy, anchored in a strong and innovative approach to legal fundamentals, to identify solutions and opportunity.
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Innovate

We work with clients to identify opportunities that lie out of reach without legal talent. We do this by combining legal expertise, deep research and client knowledge to develop strategy and drive innovation inside agile companies.

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Advice + Etc

We produce solutions for clients with complex needs who require a prismatic legal approach to navigating virtual greenfields. We specialise in serving the DeFi, blockchain and digital currency communities of Australia. We provide focused advice, transactional and dispute resolution expertise where the disciplines of commercial law, corporate governance, financial services regulation and licensing, tax, technology and digital law converge. 

Our distinguishing feature is one of approach. What we practice is just as important as how.  We merge deep experience across disciplines, embrace conceptual complexity with alacrity and produce cohesive advice through collaboration. Why? Traditional approaches to legal practice favour specialisation, with the inevitable effect of siloed expertise and lots of collaborative friction. Not ideal for legal problems that span multiple disciplines and jurisdictions. Our clients require end-to-end legal solutions that necessitate expertise across multiple legal specialisations. We respond to this need by orienting our practice around the unique features of each brief. This is the prismatic effect. We identify and pull together each legal ‘prism’ to produce robust advice and great outcomes across legal specialisations.

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Virtual GC

If your business is not at the stage where you need a full-time general council (GC), we can step in to fill that management gap. We have been fortunate to scale with our clients through some significant growth trajectories, some over a decade. One of the key things we’ve learned through experience is that legal needs change over time and good lawyers must be agile. Our talent is deployed virtually or in person in flexible and tech-enabled ways. We have the skills, expertise and experience to integrate seamlessly into your current business structure, de-risking, overseeing compliance and spotting opportunity with the finesse earned from deep knowledge of your operations, aspirations and risk appetite.

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Legal Ops

Technology and automation are the most obvious solutions for legal departments with repeat or volume legal needs. Legal and compliance teams have rarely been frontrunners to modernize, digitalize and automate, but the times are a’changing. Legal technology budgets will increase 200% by 2025 and by 2024 legal departments will replace 20% of generalist lawyers with professional Legal Ops staff. Because legal services are not confined to transactions and advice we support our clients with customized precedent library builds, compliance packages and discovery activities. We work along the innovation spectrum supporting clients to conceive of, design, develop, test, launch and iterate MVPs and tools that support legal practice.

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Talent

We source and cultivate talent in the mushrooming field of digital currency and emerging technology law.  Why? We’ve learned our clients need support securing legal and other professional services talent that can hit-the-ground-running and approach us for this work out of necessity. Ultimately, how we work with or for you depends on your needs.

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The People

Leadership

Victoria Wells

Principal (Alt Law, Alt Partners, Next Health) BA, JD
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John Conidi

Corporate Advisor (T3D, Next Health, Conidi.com)
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Nigel Finch

Corporate and Legal Advisor, MCom LLM MBA PhD CA CTA FCPA FTIA FAICD
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Trusted Partners

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Australia’s leading experts in digital asset policy, Genesis Block was born out of the need to provide the crypto-ecosystem with a strategic pathway toward sustainable growth and competitiveness. Genesis Block delivers deep insight, guidance and strategy in financial market regulation, policy development, and crypto-asset market analysis.
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Cirrus Consulting Group is a boutique digital transformation consultancy with deep experience producing results for clients in Government, Defence, Financial Services and Healthcare. Since 2018 we have helped clients navigate complex transformation initiatives. Our services include strategy design and implementation, financial performance and cost modelling, operational reform, procurement, contract management and recruitment.

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Exploring a new market? Creating a brand? Launching a product? Navigating a crisis? Developing a strategic plan? Communicating key messages? Forging strategic relationships? Building brand awareness? You need… a good plan.

Internationally renowned cultural institutions, dynamic retail brands, creative enterprises and corporate powerhouses rely on a good plan group to ideate and implement thoughtful and effective strategy, build brands, open new markets, mentor teams and spark the right conversations at the perfect time.

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At the vanguard of executive search, Alma Search curates exceptional talent for executive legal appointments in digital law and emerging technology.. Alma Search provides a bespoke executive search solution for private practice and in-house clients in a rapidly growing and increasingly sophisticated market.

Genesis Block

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Australia’s digital asset regulatory frameworks are rapidly evolving, and the market is growing in sophistication and density. We deliver deep insight, guidance and strategy in financial market regulation, policy development, and crypto-asset market analysis. Source (in house legal, HR, CFO services)

Cirrus Consulting

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Cirrus Consulting Group is a boutique digital transformation consultancy with deep experience producing results for clients in Government, Defence, Financial Services and Healthcare. Since 2018 we have helped clients navigate complex transformation initiatives. Our services include strategy design and implementation, financial performance and cost modelling, operational reform, procurement, contract management and recruitment.

A Good Plan Group

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Exploring a new market? Creating a brand? Launching a product? Navigating a crisis? Developing a strategic plan? Communicating key messages? Forging strategic relationships? Building brand awareness? You need… a good plan.
Internationally renowned cultural institutions, dynamic retail brands, creative enterprises and corporate powerhouses rely on a good plan group to ideate and implement thoughtful and effective strategy, build brands, open new markets, mentor teams and spark the right conversations at the perfect time.
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SERVICES

Manage Complexity

Complex problems require the coordination of specialist advice and legal expertise. We develop wholistic advice and strategy, anchored in a strong and innovative approach to legal fundamentals, to identify solutions and opportunity.

Case Study

Innovate

We work with clients to identify opportunities that lie out of reach without legal talent. We do this by combining legal expertise, deep research and client knowledge to develop strategy and drive innovation inside agile companies.
Case Study

Advice

We provide commercial legal services and advice, delivered intelligently and always opportunity-oriented. Our clients rely on us for focused advice, fractional general counsel services, document library builds, and coordination of legal services across jurisdictions and specialist legal areas, especially where digital law, tax and technology merge. 

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Talent

We are an entrepreneurial mesh of curious and clever legal minds. We hail from national firms and in-house appointments across an array of industry verticals. We are specialist, commercially minded legal talent and we deploy into your organisation in flexible ways. We work on fractional general counsel appointment, full time or project terms. We give your commercial work and complex matters the focus they deserve. 

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Victoria Wells

Principal (Alt Law, Alt Partners, Next Health) BA, JD

Victoria balances diverse advisory and legal appointments spanning e-com, tech, manufacture, agribusiness, health and education. Her mission as a lawyer is to thought-lead service delivery, drawing upon her experience as General Counsel and in senior legal project management roles in Australia and abroad. Previously GC of the largest privately owned Australian agricultural conglomerate, and before that a multinational telecommunications SME, her most recent appointment involved COVID-19 crisis management to a prominent automotive company via 3DEME, a rapid med-tech manufacture SPV. Victoria’s affinity for project management and network creation is matched only by her passion for and deep experience in the disruption of professional services delivery. Away from work her interests lie in minting or making art and occasionally putting her electronic devices on charge.

John Conidi

Corporate Advisor (T3D, Next Health, Conidi.com)

John is a perpetual innovator, investor and futurist with over 25 years’ experience developing, acquiring and managing businesses covering multiple industries including, healthcare, resources, technology and manufacturing.
John was managing director of Capitol Health Ltd. from 2007 to 2016 and oversaw its market capitalisation increase from $20 million to over $500 million.

His clear and focused plan centred on technology, resulted in vast benefits in productivity and service delivery generating increased profitability and shareholder prosperity.
John is a Non-Executive Director of Ecograf Limited (EGR.ASX) and Chairman of 333D Limited (T3D.ASX).John has a passion for history, and delves deep into the past to get an insight into the future, because as humans our behaviour does not change.

Nigel Finch

Corporate and Legal Advisor, MCom LLM MBA PhD CA CTA FCPA FTIA FAICD

Dr Nigel Finch, has 20 years of practical market and academic success. He has deep experience across many markets having advised clients in Australia and overseas in the manufacturing, mining, entertainment, technology, financial services, agriculture, not-for-profit, higher education and emerging market sectors.

Having advised clients operating in South East Asia, the Middle East and Central Asia, Nigel is well accustomed to international business. In fact, when it comes to emerging markets and sovereign risk Nigel wrote the book on it, literally. He has also published on a variety of subjects including mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, governance, management accounting and mining.
Nigel’s research has international impact in both academia and practice and he is rated among the top 10% academic authors on SSRN. His weekly StockDoc market commentary podcasts are streamed on Spotify by Stockhead reaching a national audience of institutional financial market participants.
Nigel has a proven talent for working closely with organisations in order to gain a full understanding of their unique financial circumstances and turning this understanding into growth and prosperity for the shareholders. His unique perspective on business finance and practical expertise in executing razor sharp strategy sets him apart.

Nigel holds degrees in accounting, business and law plus a PhD in business law. His professional qualifications include Certified Practising Accountant, Chartered Accountant, Chartered Tax Adviser and a fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia, the Taxation Institute of Australia, the Australian Institute of Company Directors and CPA Australia.
Nigel is a former Associate Dean and Associate Professor in Accounting at The University of Sydney and Honorary Consul-General of Mongolia in Sydney.
Nigel has held senior roles as a financial controller, investment manager and executive director across a variety of industries. He is the author of more than 100 academic publications including several books on finance and investment including Contemporary Issue in Mining: Leading Practice in Australia and Emerging Markets and Sovereign Risk.