Legal and conveyancing professionals across Australia will join the first forum of its kind on 18 June 2026, when all four Tranche 2 affected professions gather in one session with Brendan Thomas, Chief Executive Officer of AUSTRAC, opening the conversation.
The Industry Collective Speaks: The Defining Conversation Before Tranche 2 Goes Live is a 90-minute virtual panel convened by InfoTrack, bringing together the NSW Law Society, the Australian Institute of Conveyancers NSW, the Real Estate Institute of New South Wales, Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand, and Grant Thornton alongside AUSTRAC to address the obligations all four professions now share under the amended Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act.
Every AML/CTF forum in Australia to date has convened within a single profession, in isolation. For legal and conveyancing practitioners, that has meant working through contested questions without the perspective of the professions on the other side of the same matters: how customer due diligence obligations interact with solicitor-client relationships, where reliance provisions apply when multiple regulated parties share the same transaction, and what a compliant program looks like for firms of different sizes and practice areas. On 18 June, those questions are addressed in the same room as the accounting professionals who see the entity structure and the agents who execute the transfer.
“The legal and conveyancing professions carry some of the most significant obligations under Tranche 2, and some of the hardest questions to resolve in isolation,” said John Ahern, CEO of InfoTrack. “For the first time, all four affected professions are in the same room with the regulator. The reliance provisions, the intersection of professional duty and AML/CTF compliance, the questions that have not been resolvable in a single-sector setting, those are the conversations that happen on 18 June. That is why we convened it.”
The session will open with a direct address from AUSTRAC’s Chief Executive Officer, followed by panel representation from the NSW Law Society’s Head of Regulatory Policy and Strategy, Bobbie Wan, and AICNSW President Jennie Tonner, alongside representatives from the real estate and accounting professions.
The forum is complimentary and open to legal and conveyancing professionals nationally. Attendees will receive post-event guides and on-demand resources to close gaps in your program before and after 1 July.
