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 Sydney, Australia and founded in 2024. We provide strategic and straightforward advice to our clients.
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 Latin American clients in Australia, and clients in Latin American countries seeking to do or expand their business to Australia. We provide our services in both English and Spanish, depending on our 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.
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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Our People
Valentina García
Valentina began her career in Chile where she completed her law degree at the prestigious Universidad Católica de Chile, and was then admitted to practice by the Supreme Court of Chile in 2011. After migrating to Australia, she finished the Juris Doctor program at the University of New South Wales and was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of New South Wales and the High Court of Australia in 2016.
Valentina has been working for top and mid-tier law firms in Chile and Sydney, Australia for the last 10 years, and has particular expertise in debt finance in the construction and commercial property industries, business transactions and property work. In addition, she has corporate law experience, including advising on business incorporation and general business matters.
The opportunity to work in Chile and Australia has given Valentina invaluable tools to provide excellent legal services to clients in both countries. Her knowledge of both legal systems and comparative law analysis, makes Valentina a key partner for her clients’ international endeavours.
E: valentina@southernconnections.law
Principal and Founder
Matt Ward
Matt is one of Australia’s leading dual-registered technology lawyers and patent attorneys, with 20 years of experience in practicing all areas of intellectual property law.
Matt’s key focus is on delivering IP strategy and services in a manner that is practical, commercial and effective. This includes capture, management and licensing of IP assets such as patents and trade secrets. He provides advice to companies ranging from startups to ASX-listed public entities and multinationals, often working alongside larger general practice firms to offer specialist expertise in the areas of technology and IP.
Being dual-registered, Matt is one of only a handful of practitioners in Australia who is able to assist with the preparation and prosecution of patent applications, and also with broader legal advice relevant to commercialization and technology, allowing for a comprehensive and holistic approach to strategy and advice.
Matt’s connection to Chile is through the Andes, where he enjoys snowboarding each winter.
Director and IP lawyer/patent attorney
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