Knowledge of legal, regulatory, compliance and governance issues.

Here is an important fact to be aware of when it comes to the world of caveat lending: People that own properties as joint tenants own 100% of the property together. This means Mr A owns 100% of the property and Mrs A owns 100% of the property. There are no shares – where there are shares this is called tenants in common.

Big Banks and ADI’s are now used to not having physical/paper CTs, the phasing out commenced in September 3 years...

We were pleased to read a recent judgment which featured Kingston & Partners’ documentation. The Court considered our processes prior...

A recent Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry research report highlights the critical importance and role of debt financing in...

The private lending market continues to mature. Alongside that growth has come greater scrutiny of how loan facilities are structured, documented, and supported over their full lifecycle. Increasingly, the focus is not simply on documentation, but on whether the structure of a loan genuinely reflects its commercial purpose. From what we see across the market, several themes consistently stand out.

Consent clauses requiring that approval which will “not be unreasonably withheld” appear in almost every finance transaction. B32 Investments Pty...