T2 Legal
law
strategy
technology
Navigating complexity and ambiguity
What we do
Strategic
T2 Legal provides strategically aligned legal advice to assist our clients.
Design
We operate at the intersection of technology and law and create opportunity from uncertainty.
Delivery
End-to-end mutual banking sector expertise including advising on complex mergers and transfers.
Decades of experience in credit and financial services law including regulatory compliance and enforcement.
AML/CTF advisors spanning program development, risk and compliance management, breach identification and enforcement.
Different
Our lawyers have decades of experience working in-house in financial service providers.
Legal services
T2 Legal offers end-to-end legal services from product ideation and design through to remediation.
Strategically aligned
We identify and predict obstacles and plan for them to win opportunities and manage challenges. We enable our clients to take their technology into new markets.
Legal design
We design high performing legal and compliance solutions. We provide ongoing compliance support and are engaged to conduct legal audits and to support compliance over longer periods.
Regulatory compliance
Our expertise in regulatory compliance spans design distribution obligations through to everything required to support Australian Credit Licence applications and compliance with the credit laws.
We have real world experience in operational risk and we know how to design and deliver effective compliance. We advise and represent clients dealing with ASIC, ACCC, AUSTRAC and APRA enquiries, investigations, notices and enforcement.
Contracts including prudential regulation
Our experience spans the spectrum of contracts from complex multi-jurisdictional technology contracts covered by prudential standards through to simpler commercial agreements.
Compliance
T2 Legal offers compliance consulting services which are informed by real world experience and cutting edge qualifications.
Operational risk and compliance
We design and build compliance frameworks and policies including all aspects of operational risk and compliance including complaints and incident management.
Compliance support
We provide ongoing compliance support and are engaged to conduct legal audits and to support compliance over longer periods.
Human centred
We understand that the best systems fail when the people operating them face challenges or make errors. We focus on users and customer experience and enable practical controls to translate compliance policy into operational reality.
General Counsel
T2 Legal offers fractional General Counsel services.
In-house experts
We design and deliver in-house legal functions. We support businesses and build teams for long term sustainability and success.
Turn the ship around
We support businesses navigating disruption and instability. We provide critical leadership, governance and executive presence through turbulent times.
We assist with planned and unplanned board, leadership and management restructures and crisis management including whistleblowing and regulatory engagement.
AML / CTF
Regulatory expertise and risk consulting across all designated services providers
Risk advisory and assessment
We review risks associated with businesses providing designated services and provide advice regarding appropriate controls
Program development
We take AML/CTF Programs from theory into practice and empower leadership, management and operations to enable compliance
Breach advice
We have dealt with hundreds of thousands of AML/CTF Act breaches and many complex regulatory interactions
About
Tim Graham is a regulatory and financial services lawyer with a proven track record of strategic delivery including in the commercialisation of new technologies in fintech and regtech. Tim is the founder and principal of T2 Legal.
Tim has a Master of Legal Business Management from the College of Law and a Bachelor of Laws with Honours and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Adelaide. Tim is as comfortable handling complex mutual banking mergers as he is helping clients navigate complex corporate governance and regulatory challenges.
A former ASX200 General Counsel with a decade in-house, Tim is an entrepreneur, a naturally divergent and inventive thinker and has developed industry shaping self-regulation and helped credit regulation catch up to technology.