When advice models change,
legal risk moves
As advice businesses evolve, their legal obligations often shift with them. Hastings helps firms identify where risk has moved, before it becomes a problem.
Hastings Legal
Specialist legal counsel for wealth management and financial advice businesses.
Hastings Legal is a specialist financial services law firm advising wealth management firms, financial advisers and regulated businesses navigating an increasingly complex environment.
Founded by Jim Bulling after more than 35 years in financial services law.
Why Hastings Legal.
Expertise without the institutional layers
The Australian wealth management sector is evolving rapidly. Regulation is increasing. ASIC activity has intensified.
Licensees, advice firms and product providers are operating in a more scrutinised and commercially sensitive environment than ever before.
Hastings Legal was established to provide specialist legal counsel built specifically for this environment: commercially grounded, technically rigorous, direct and accessible, delivered by experienced practitioners.
What this means in practice
Built specifically for the advice community
Governance that meets the challenge
Building robust governance structures designed for a constantly changing regulatory environment. Frameworks that work in practice, not just on paper.
Contemporary business models
Advising on the adoption of efficient, contemporary business models for advice firms, with structures that reflect how the industry actually operates today.
Adapting in real time
When the market evolves, Hastings Legal works alongside clients to adapt structures and arrangements as conditions change, not after the fact.
Institutional sophistication. Appropriate price.
The sophistication of a long career in a global law firm, delivered at a price point built for the advice community, not the institutional client base that firm served.
Services
What we do
Deep experience navigating the complex. Every corner of the wealth management sector. Every stage of a firm’s life.
Licensing
& Regulatory
AFSL obligations,
ASIC engagement, breach
reporting, governance
Wealth Management
& Advice
Advice firms, principals,
licensees, practice
structures.
Strategic
& Commercial
Structuring, transactions,
partnerships, negotiations.
Disputes,
Claims & Risk
AFCA matters, regulatory
disputes, enforcement
response.
Founding Principal
Experience Matters
Jim Bulling has spent more than three decades advising financial services businesses within one of the world’s leading law firms, before establishing Hastings Legal.
His approach is direct, commercially focused and grounded in practical outcomes
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Insights
Current thinking
When advice models change,
The clauses that matter most are
often the ones no one reads
The most important risks are often buried in the detail. Hastings reviews agreements with a forensic eye for the terms that can shape outcomes.
Growth creates complexity
before it creates value
Expansion brings opportunity, but also legal pressure. Hastings helps wealth and advice firms structure growth with clarity and control.
Speak directly with Hastings Legal
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