Strategic Legal Solutions Delivering Timely, Cost-Effective Results.

At Southern Connections Law, we specialise in providing tailored legal solutions for clients navigating legal issues or business opportunities in Australia and Latin America, offering strategic advice in a clear and personalised manner - in English and Spanish. We are based in Sydney, and provide our legal services all across Australia. We also work with key partners in Chile and Latin America, helping connect business opportunities across the Pacific.

Southern Connections Law is a boutique commercial law firm located in the Northern Beaches of Sydney, Australia and founded in 2024. We specialise in making legal support simple and practical, providing strategic and straightforward advice to both local and overseas business owners, entrepreneurs and clients looking to enter the Australian market.

Our Principal lawyer, Valentina García Cantolla, is both dual-registered to practice law in Australia and Chile, and a dual-national of both countries. As such, a key focus of the firm is assisting Spanish-speaking clients in Australia, and also Australian clients looking to expand their businesses to Latin America. We provide our services in both English and Spanish, depending on the clients’ preferences.

As a modern law firm, we are happy to offer our services on a fixed-fee basis, to deliver our legal advice and results with certainty.

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Our Services

The Difference -

  • Years of experience, boutique firm attention, and transparent pricing

  • Fixed fees available

  • Flexible, remote online appointments (including after hours)

  • Services available in English and Spanish

  • We can assist with your business set-up and structuring in Australia, and provide guidance on how things work in the Australian market from a legal, governance and cultural standpoint.

    We are also able to assist with complex legal translations and provide advice to businesses of all sizes, drafting and negotiating a range of commercial agreements. Whether it be a shareholder/subscription agreement, Privacy Policies and Website Terms or a complex suite of documents for new a project, development or venture, we have you covered.

    See more HERE.

  • At SCL, we have a deep understanding of intellectual property and its commercialisation, and the supporting legal frameworks. We offer a range of services including technology licensing, risk assessment/management, IP protection, trademarks, and negotiation of complex deals. We also offer a fixed-fee patent filing and prosecution service for clients seeking to bring their existing patent rights to Australia.

    See more HERE.

  • We offer fast, affordable, and fully online legal advice for borrowers and guarantors—whether you’re working with a bank or a non-bank lender.

    • Fixed-fee loan document review and advice (including mortgages, security agreements, guarantees etc)

    • Independent legal advice certificates for guarantors

    • Flexible, remote appointments (including after hours)

    Read more about our services HERE.

  • We can sort out your paperwork (or “tramites”) and represent you before Chilean authorities. If you have family in Chile, we can assist you with probate, inheritance, powers of attorney, etc. We also assist with legalisation and apostille for documents to be used in Chile and overseas.

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