Sian McLachlan

Senior Lawyer

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Practice Areas

Banking and Finance
Business Sale and Purchase
Business Structuring
Corporate and Commercial

Sian is a true extension of the Honan team, readily available to provide support and sound guidance on whatever issue may arise. Sian continues to demonstrate their understanding and extensive knowledge of how our business operates in a complex regulatory environment and the key drivers for our decisions.

Belinda Muir, General Counsel, Honan Insurance

Sian is LegalVision’s first point of contact for clients with financing or business structuring enquiries. Before joining LegalVision, Sian was a solicitor at an international top-tier firm in their Banking & Finance team. Sian has a large number of startup and fintech clients and understands their legal needs. She provides end-to-end guidance for companies as they scale, from choosing the right corporate structure to deciding on funding options.

In her spare time, Sian enjoys beach time with her rescue pup Bailey and forcing her friends to play board games with her.

Qualifications: Juris Doctor, Bachelor of Commerce, University of Sydney.

Professional memberships: Law Society of New South Wales.

Expertise

Banking and Finance

Providing guidance to founders on raising capital through debt financing including loans, SAFEs and venture debt.

Assisting clients in setting up employee share option plans.

Assisting clients in taking or giving security over business assets.

Corporate and Commercial

Assisting clients in setting up their business and corporate governance structure.

Assisting clients in selling their business, or purchasing a new business.

Client Reviews

The legal work provided by the team at LegalVision has been invaluable to Just Cuts. LegalVision’s balance between quality and efficiency is particularly impressive and integral to the success of our many franchised outlets. Their lawyers maintain a consistently high quality of service and their fixed-fee approach is a breath of fresh air.

Amber Turnbull, Just Cuts (COO)

LegalVision assisted with a number of legal docs and advice including negotiating with large corporates. They demonstrate pragmatism, experience and deep understanding of our business' risk profile, and has led to us counting LegalVision as an integral ingredient to the overall success of our business.

Anthony Bekker, ROKT (Head of Operations Strategy)

We have worked with LegalVision on our shareholders agreement, employee share scheme and a capital raise. Their fees are very reasonable compared to “name” firms and they have repeatedly gone the extra mile and demonstrate they know the startup space.

John Baini, TruePillars (Co-Founder & CEO)

LegalVision's lawyers are the team you want by your side when reviewing and negotiating contract terms. We’ve worked with LegalVision during our Friends & Family Round where they prepared our convertible notes, and during our seed round which we closed with excellent terms and well ahead of schedule.

Federico Collarte, Baraja Pty Ltd (Founder)

Meet Sian McLachlan