Our firm

Hobson Legal is a boutique banking and finance practice based in Brisbane, accepting instructions from all jurisdictions in Australia.

Our approach

We are specialists – we focus on finance, mortgages and securities.

We assist clients with finance, mortgage and personal property securities transactions. Also, regulatory and compliance matters.

If we don’t have the expertise or cannot add value, we will tell you.

We protect our clients’ interests through:

  • Experience – commercial and pragmatic advice based on over 20 years of helping our clients

  • Quality – cutting-edge expert documentation and advice customised to meet your needs

  • Clarity – clear, concise communication in plain English

  • Technology – a secure and easy-to-use client document portal

All substantive interaction is with the firm’s Principal and supported by an experienced and highly trained team. We are accessible when you need us.

We are different

  • We are responsive and easy to work with

  • We listen to you

  • We strive to understand your commercial imperatives

  • Our billing arrangements are flexible and transparent

  • We have many long standing clients

 

Our Dedication

 

Principal

Michael Hobson

Phone: +61 7 31528610
Mobile: 0439 711 719
Email: michael@hobsonlegal.com.au

Michael has over 20 years’ experience in banking and finance, corporate, commercial and property law.

  • Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Queensland (admitted 2001)

  • Recognised in Best Lawyers in Australia (2021) in the area of banking and finance law

  • Listed as a recommended lawyer for banking and finance in the Asia Pacific Legal 500, described as a lawyer ‘who impresses with his knowledge and ability to focus’

  • Member of the Banking and Financial Services Law Association

  • Member of the Queensland Law Society and currently serves on the QLS Banking and Financial Services Committee

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Michael’s experience includes:

  • Lending structures including combinations of senior debt, private equity and mezzanine debt

  • Syndications, participations, club loans and other complex inter-creditor arrangements

  • Industries including commercial property and property development, energy and resources, financial services and agribusiness

  • Restructures, secured recoveries, receiverships and mortgagee sales

  • Mortgagee’s and receiver’s duties under the Corporations Act and the Property Law Act

  • Negotiating asset management agreements, sale agreements and joint venture development agreements

  • Regulatory and compliance issues including:

    • National Consumer Credit Protection Act

    • Personal Property Securities Act

    • Banking Code of Practice

    • Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act

    • Privacy Act

  • Preparing NCCPA compliant documents and manuals as well as other standard form documentation for use by short term lenders, receivables financiers and other boutique financiers.

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