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Transforming compliance consulting and legal services to promote excellence, personalised care and affordability in the financial services sector.

About Adria Group

We are an innovative online compliance consultancy and law firm dedicated to transforming the conventional approach in servicing the financial services sector, emphasising excellence, personalised care, and affordability, offering fixed-fee pricing for all our solutions.

At Adria Group, we believe that quality and affordable legal and compliance consulting services should be accessible to all. Our client-centered approach ensures that we are always responsive, transparent, and focused on fulfilling client objectives and achieving the best outcomes for your business or personal needs. Let us be your trusted partner in managing legal and compliance challenges, while keeping your costs under control.

We are here to simplify the complexities and help you stay ahead, so you can focus on what truly matters — your growth and success.

Our Compliance Services

Licensing

In many cases, to establish and operate a financial services or credit-related business, you must have an Australian Financial Services Licence (AFSL) or Australian Credit Licence (ACL). With a wealth of experience in applying for and obtaining AFSLs and ACLs, our expert compliance consultants can assist you in navigating the complexities in applying for and obtaining an AFSL or ACL to ensure your business is appropriately licensed to be able to effectively operate.

AML/CTF

Many different types of businesses that provide 'designated services' are captured under the AML/CTF laws and regulations, most commonly including businesses across the financial, gambling, remittance, digital currency and bullion sectors. With a wealth of experience in the AML/CTF space, our expert compliance consultants can assist you in determining whether you are captured under the AML/CTF laws and regulations, and if so, assist you in maintaining compliance with the AML/CTF Act and Rules.

Data & Privacy

In an ever-changing modernised world, data and privacy concerns have become paramount for businesses on a global scale giving rise to many different domestic and global regulatory obligations that must be adhered to. With a wealth of knowledge in the data and privacy concerns, our expert compliance consultants can assist you in understanding your data and privacy regulatory obligations and developing and implementing a rigid compliance framework, so you can ensure that your data and privacy concerns are maintained.

ESG

In recent years, Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) measures have become critical considerations in the day-to-day operations for businesses on both a domestic and global scale. With a wealth of knowledge in the ESG space, our expert compliance consultants can provide you with comprehensive support to ensure compliance with current ESG standards and assist you in developing and implementing a proactive compliance framework, so you can focus on growth and success.

Financial Services

To operate a successful business in the financial services industry, it is essential to navigate complex laws and regulations that affect your business to build a strong legal framework. With a wealth of knowledge in the financial services space, our expert financial services lawyers can assist you in navigating these complex laws and regulations to ensure your business is effectively structured and well-prepared to face any legal, regulatory or operational hurdles.

Corporate & Commercial

To establish and operate a competitive business in today's world, it is critical to ensure that your business has implemented a strong legal foundation. With a wealth of knowledge in the corporate and commercial space, our expert corporate and commercial lawyers can ensure that your business has developed a rigid legal structure and identified and managed all legal and commercial risks, so you can focus on growing a successful business.

Tax

Whether you are an individual or a business, understanding the complex tax laws and regulations is critically important to avoid being impacted by severe tax consequences. With a wealth of knowledge in the tax space, our expert tax lawyers can guide you through the complex tax landscape in Australia by assisting you in implementing an effective tax structure and resolving tax concerns, so you can ensure you stay on top of your tax affairs.

Employment

As your business grows and you engage employees or contractors, you become subject to the multifaceted legal domain of employment and labour laws and regulations. With a wealth of knowledge in the employment space, our expert employment lawyers can provide you with comprehensive legal support to ensure compliance with employment laws and regulations and proactive management of workplace relations, so you can focus on fostering a harmonious workplace.

Investment Management

We hold a primary focus on the investment management sector, servicing both domestic and global clients. We maintain deep knowledge and expertise in the complex laws and regulations affecting the investment management sector and provide bespoke and practical solutions to ensure our clients effectively set up their operations from a legal, regulatory and commercial perspective. Our clients consist of wholesale trustees, investment managers and custodians, extending across all different types of asset classes, as well as wealth managers, financial planners, traders, brokers, corporate advisers MDA providers.

Digital Finance

We maintain a unique specialty in assisting modern and innovative financial services businesses situated in the digital finance sector. We have extensive knowledge and expertise in laws and regulations affecting businesses in the digital finance sector which allows us to provide tailored and practical solutions to ensure our clients effectively set up their operations from a legal, regulatory and commercial perspective. We service both domestic and global businesses in the digital finance sector which typically include payment service providers, remittance service providers, digital currency exchanges and various types of FinTech businesses, such as crowd funding platforms, marketplace lending platforms and copy trading.

Consumer Finance & Insurance

We have a deep understanding of the consumer finance and insurance sectors and are well situated to appropriately assist businesses in such sectors. Our extensive knowledge and expertise in the complex laws and regulations impacting the consumer finance and insurance sectors allows us to provide bespoke and practical solutions to ensure our clients effectively set up their operations from a legal, regulatory and commercial perspective. We service businesses in the consumer finance and insurance sectors Australia wide, which consist of mortgage brokers, mortgage managers, lenders, insurance brokers and debt management firms.

Corporate

We hold a key focus on servicing small-to-medium corporations which are based both domestically and globally. We maintain deep knowledge and expertise in the complex laws and regulations affecting corporations and provide bespoke and practical solutions to ensure our clients effectively set up their operations from a legal, regulatory and commercial perspective. The corporations we service are based within various industries including the startup, real estate, professional services and technology and digital industries.

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Testimonials

We highly recommend Dario to anyone needing assistance navigating the requirements and the complexities of obtaining an Australian Credit Licence. Dario made an overwhelming experience seamless and stress-free. A BIG thank you to Dario and the entire team at Adria Group.

Bmoney Finance Bora Tuncoglu

Adria Group provided us with professional services to assist us in achieving our own AFSL and exceeded expectations. After seeing the value Adria Group provided to us, we would confidently say we would not have been able to succeed without them.

Redwood Financial Planning Ryan Humphries

Adria Group professionally and efficiently guided me to what I need legally in starting my own small business. They made the complex process simple and easy to understand and allowed for us to getting operating quicker. I would not be going anywhere else for future needs.

Xpert Football Adam Cukar

Our Features

Quality

We place our prime focus on the quality of the services being provided to clients to ensure that complex issues are simplified and proactive and tailored solutions are implemented.

Affordable

We provide some of the most competitive pricing on our services, industry-wide, and implement fixed-fee pricing at all times, so that clients are not surprised by hidden fees and costs.

Online

We are an online organisation that services all clients via a combination of video call, email and phone allowing us to provide clients with efficient, accessible and affordable services.

Responsive

We understand that timing is critical. We have implemented processes to ensure our commitment to delivering services within short timeframes that fit the commercial needs of our clients.

FAQs

As an innovative and transformative online law and compliance consultancy firm, we receive a wide range of questions on how we operate. Here you can find answers to the questions we are most frequently asked.

How do you operate?

We are an innovative online compliance consultancy and law firm dedicated to transforming the conventional approach in servicing the financial services sector. Our group of companies includes Adria Compliance Pty Ltd that provides compliance consulting services and Adria Law Pty Ltd that provides legal services.

As we are an online organisation, we meet with and service all our clients via a combination of video call, email and phone. This methodology allows us to provide you with efficient, accessible and affordable services when compared to traditional firms.

The key principle that we stress to our clients is affordability. We do this by having some of the most competitive pricing across our related industries and implement fixed-fee pricing, at all times, so that you are not surprised with any hidden costs.

Do you have an office?

Yes, our head office is based in Sydney's CBD. However, as we are an online organisation, we service all our clients via a combination of video call, email and phone.

What locations do you service?

Due to our online approach, businesses and individuals can access our services all across Australia.

We also service businesses and individuals that are based outside of Australia who may be looking to expand their business into Australia or may have an Australian-related legal or compliance concern required to be resolved.

Specifically for our legal services provided by Adria Law Pty Ltd, our lawyers are only able to provide legal services relating to Australian legal issues in the areas we have expertise. This means that we cannot provide services for projects to the extent they involve the laws of other countries.

What areas do you specialise in?

Adria Group consists of two separate legal entities that have been established to provide differing services.

Adria Compliance Pty Ltd is the compliance consultancy within Adria Group that provides compliance consulting solutions relating to Licensing, AML/CTF, Data & Privacy and ESG.

Adria Law Pty Ltd is the law firm within Adria Group that provides legal services covering Financial Services, Corporate & Commercial, Tax and Employment law.

How do I get started?

Simply click the "Contact" button on our website and submit an enquiry. A member of Adria Group will then get in touch with you with one (1) business day to organise a free initial consultation to better understand your needs.

After the free initial consultation, you will be sent a Proposal containing our fixed-fee quote, scope of work and terms. Upon confirming acceptance of the Proposal, you will be assigned an expert who will work closely with you to complete your project.

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