Nik Albrecht

Principal

Nik is a financial services specialist and a co-founder of the firm.

After spending 15 years working in both legal and commercial roles within leading financial services firms, Nik saw an opportunity. Despite all the marketing, most lawyers were risk averse, uncommercial, and simply not user-friendly for clients.

Through spending a large portion of his career working in-house within financial services firms, Nik developed a refined sense of what it really means to be commercial, and his success in corporate life has hinged on combining technical rigour with a risk neutral approach and a genuine focus on business objectives - and this underpins the approach he encourages the team to embrace at Albrecht Burrows.

The rest is all about the people. Nik applies a strict ‘no-psychopaths’ rule across his life and the firm, and believes your professional life should be filled with genuine friendships with your colleagues and clients.

In his pre-AB life, Nik held positions ranging from General Counsel through to Head of Business Strategy at leading firms such as King & Wood Mallesons, UBS, Schroders and Wilsons Advisory. He is absurdly over-educated - holding various degrees including an LLB from Sydney University and an MBA from INSEAD.

While there are many outstanding technical lawyers in the Australian market, they can be highly risk averse, and most have no interest in implementation. If you can maintain the technical rigour of the legal skillset, but apply a commercial risk tolerance, a practical knowledge of the business, and genuine focus on relationships - then you have the potential to come up with truly valuable solutions.

- Nik Albrecht