Tom Skevington
Legal Counsel at Square Peg
Tom Skevington
Legal Counsel at Square Peg
Sydney, New South Wales
Overview
Work Experience
Legal Counsel
2020 - Current
Enabling Square Peg to empower the exceptional, focusing on: * Managing international fund compliance obligations including AFSL requirements, AUSTRAC, FATCA/CRS, ESVCLP and Innovation Australia, among others * Maintaining consistent compliance controls and policies between Australia, Israel and Singapore * Structuring of fund and investment vehicles * General corporate legal advice * Transaction legal support for portfolio investments and ongoing portfolio company matters * Messing around with VR
Committee Member
2019 - 2022
Associate
2020 - 2020
Part of the Financial Services & Fintech group, focusing on: * blockchain and fintech; * early stage / start up companies; * KYC and AML/CTF; * mergers and acquisitions; * corporate governance and compliance; * fundraising; * privacy; and * intellectual property. Contributor and editor on FinTech, blockchain and law publication Bits of Blocks
Lawyer
2018 - 2020
Lawyer
2017 - 2018
Business Transactions & Advice Corporate Advisory Property
Law Clerk
2016 - 2017
Space Security Index - Researcher
2016 - 2016
Working with McGill University’s Institute of Air and Space Law and George Washington University’s Space Policy Institute, as well as with project coordinators in Canada, and under the direct supervision of the Adelaide Law School's Research Unit on Military Law and Ethics (supervision of Associate Professor Dale Stephens and Professor Melissa de Zwart), on Project Ploughshares' Space Security Index for 2016. My focus was on developments in the commercial space industry, as well as public-private collaboration on space technologies throughout 2015. The findings of my research were published in the 2016 edition of the Space Security Index. (ISBN 978-1-927802-15-1)
Law Clerk
2015 - 2016