Matt is an experienced senior Banking and Finance lawyer with both in-house and major law firm experience gained from roles in Brisbane, Sydney, London, the Cayman Islands, and Hong Kong.

He is currently a Financial Services Regulatory Partner at Gadens Lawyers Brisbane. Prior to this role, he was Senior Legal Counsel at AMP Capital in Sydney having spent 18 months assisting with the demerger and transition to Collimate Capital, general funds management and investment BAU, and heavy involvement with the current sale process of AMP Capital. He sat on the AMP Capital Incident Assessment Committee as a legal representative, and actively engaged with the compliance team in the assessment of reportable incidents for over a year while providing legal support to the AMP Capital business units in various Asian offices, New York, and London.

Prior to AMP, he was Senior Legal Counsel at McMillan Shakespeare Limited – Australia’s leading salary packaging operator, as well as supporting plan management services to NDIS customers and assisting with corporate operations

He previously held roles as a Partner of Colin Biggers & Paisley Lawyers and the Senior Legal Counsel for Think Childcare Limited, where he led its corporate share-stapling transaction and ASX-listing, and subsequent acquisition of over 30 new childcare centers.  Other corporate roles have included appointment as Chief Operating Office at Kanebridge Capital in Sydney for two years from 2018 and as COO of the Kanebridge Property and Finance Group, where he worked on Build to Rent property projects.

Matt consults to businesses in the corporate, property, and resources sectors structuring bankable projects, and advises on debt finance transactions, including risk assessment and other ancillary legal and commercial issues from acquisition, construction, operation, drafting documentation, and advising on regulatory issues for successful project execution.

Matt is a Director of Stone Leaf Capital Securities Ltd, (AFSL 549617) Australian Financial Services Licensee that provides corporate advisory, funds management and investment management services to high net worth, sophisticated and wholesale clients. 

• Bachelor of Laws (QUT) 1992

• Master of Laws (QUT) 1994

• Graduate of Australian Institute of Company Directors 2019

• Queensland Law Society Member

• Admitted to the Roll England and Wales

• Qualified in the following jurisdictions:

• Supreme Court of Queensland 1994

• High Court of Australia 1995

• Supreme Court of New South Wales 1997

• Supreme Court of England and Wales 1997

• Supreme Court of Cayman Islands 2003