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Glenjon Aligiannis

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Glenjon specialises in financial services law, advising financial services licensees, financial planning firms, and advisers on legal, regulatory, and compliance matters, including interactions with ASIC and AUSTRAC. He also counsels financial services and digital asset businesses on regulatory investigations. His experience includes senior roles at an international law firm, in-house counsel at a major financial advice provider (with a secondment to its global investment arm), and a ‘big four’ bank.

Admitted to Practice

2016

Key Areas of Expertise

  • Wealth and Financial Planning
  • ASIC and AUSTRAC regulatory interactions and investigations
  • AFCA matters

Career Achievements

  • Ranked as a Leading Associate in Fintech and Financial Services by Legal, 2025
  • Ranked as Leading Associate in Fintech and Financial Services by Legal 500, 2024
  • Listed by the Australasian Lawyer as a Rising Star, 2023
  • Finalist in the Lawyers Weekly ‘30 under 30’ for financial services, 2021
  • Completed Masters of Laws with Distinction, 2020

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Arts from the University of Sydney (Double major: Ancient History and Philosophy)
  • Bachelor of Laws from Macquarie University
  • Masters of Laws with Distinction from the University of Technology Sydney

Favourite Quote

“I would never die for my beliefs, because I might be wrong” – Bertrand Russell

My Thoughts

Where firms are getting TMDs wrong, and what better prepared firms are doing differently

03 Feb 2026

Several years on from the introduction of the design and distribution obligations (“DDO”) regime in October 2021, the central challenge that product issuers face remains to be defining their target market and screening clients against…

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