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Westpac teams with Lawpath to help ease SME pain points

10:26am February 05 2025

Lawpath CEO Dominic Woolrych (left) with Peter Herbert, Westpac Acting Chief Executive, Business & Wealth. (Supplied)

For many startups and small businesses, legal costs and business admin can be among the biggest drains on time and resources. 

Westpac is looking to help entrepreneurs better manage these pressures via a partnership with Lawpath, an online platform that provides businesses with access to affordable legal services, as well as accounting and compliance technology solutions. 

“Our investment in Lawpath aligns with Westpac’s strategy to partner with companies which offer our customers services to help run their business and make the complex simple,” said Peter Herbert, Acting Chief Executive of Westpac’s Business and Wealth division.

“As part of the partnership, Lawpath can help Westpac customers make starting and running a business easier, including registering an ABN, setting up a website or accessing expert small business legal services,” Herbert said. 

Lawpath, which supports around half a million businesses, has seen increased demand for its services over the past few years, said Lawpath CEO Dominic Woolrych. In particular, there has been strong interest in its artificial intelligence solutions which can simplify the process of setting up and running a business. 

While it’s relatively inexpensive to register a business, that’s just the start of a myriad potential legal and business admin costs that SMEs have to consider. They can range from engaging legal firms to help negotiate financing arrangements and property leases, to navigating industry and government regulations and hiring external accountants. 

Westpac’s investment in Lawpath further expands a range of partner offers available to business customers and banking solutions aimed at making life easier for small businesses. These include the EFTPOS Air app which allows businesses to accept payments anywhere, anytime on a compatible iPhone or Android. 
 

James Thornhill was appointed as editor of Westpac Wire in May 2022. Prior to joining the bank, he was a business and financial journalist with more than two decades of experience with international newswires. Most recently, he was a resources correspondent for Bloomberg, covering the mining and energy sectors, and previously reported on a broad range of topics from economics and politics to currency and bond markets. Originally from the UK, he’s had stints working in London, New York and Singapore, but is now happily settled in Sydney.

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