Galilee Solicitors

What Galilee Solicitors does

Galilee Solicitors is an Australian incorporated law firm founded in 1994 in Sydney that specializes in providing legal services to the mortgage industry, including residential, commercial, and SMSF mortgage lending, residential conveyancing, and mortgage settlements. Headquartered in Sydney with offices in Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, and Hobart, and 140+ staff, the firm operates as a B2B panel law firm serving Australian lenders, mortgage managers, and brokers. Named clients include Citibank, Pepper, ME Bank, and Bendigo and Adelaide Bank.

The firm's competitive positioning is anchored on three interconnected proprietary digital platforms: KWIL, a digital mortgage document signing solution that enables paperless loan pack execution with simultaneous biometric identity verification (VOI and VOS) via Livesign at the point of signing; Orion, a broker and borrower portal for matter tracking and document management; and GOLD, a lender-facing portal for end-to-end settlement visibility. The stack integrates with PEXA for electronic conveyancing settlement and eCAF for digital VOI/signed CAF workflows. KWIL is available via kwil.com.au and as a white-label offering. AI/computer vision is limited to biometric facial matching (ePassport chip photo extraction against borrower selfie) rather than broader ML capabilities. The firm is ISO 27001 certified (achieved January 2023) and has won multiple industry awards including PEXA Panel Law Firm of the Year (2019), Australasian Lawyers Innovative Firms Award (2019), and PEXA Industry Innovation Award for KWIL (2021).

Galilee's revenue model is transaction-fee based for legal services, with pricing not publicly disclosed. The firm is privately held and operated by Executive Director and Managing Partner Simon Duke (ex Top-10 law firm partner who took over leadership in December 2020) and Group CEO Lara Paholski, with a C-suite including CFO Mark Trinidad, CPO Gavin Kilbride, and CIO Mark Austin. The firm is wholly Australian, with no offshored resourcing or JV/affiliation arrangements, and has no disclosed funding rounds or institutional investors. Scale metrics include 80,000 digital mortgage transactions annually, $40 billion in mortgage value processed per year, 1 million+ lifetime completed transactions, and an 84% borrower satisfaction rate. A related legal technology company, TheLawStore.com.au (operator of Livesign), is a minority-held subsidiary in which Galilee's leadership has co-founder involvement.

Name

Galilee Solicitors

Legal name

Galilee Solicitors

Website

https://web.galilee.com.au

Company type

Private

Founded year

1994

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Galilee Solicitors is an Australian law firm providing mortgage settlement legal services to lenders and brokers via proprietary digital platforms (KWIL, Orion, GOLD). Founded in 1994 in Sydney, it processes 80,000 digital mortgage transactions and $40 billion in loan value annually across six Australian offices.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Mortgage Legal Services

NAICS

Legal Services (5411), Title Abstract and Settlement Offices (541191)

SIC

Services-Legal Services (8111), Real Estate Agents & Managers (For Others) (6531)

akta.pro primary industry

Quality Control (QC), Compliance & Audit Tools for Underwriting (FSALALAL)

akta.pro secondary industry

Fraud Detection, Identity & KYC/AML for Mortgages (FSALALAH)

Keywords

• Mortgage legal services
• Digital conveyancing
• Document signing platform
• Identity verification solutions
• Panel law firm

Headquarters

HQ city

Sydney

HQ country

Australia

HQ region

Oceania

Offices6 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Mortgage Legal Services: Galilee provides legal services to the mortgage industry including residential, commercial and SMSF mortgage lending, and residential conveyancing. Services are structured for high volume work with scalability for lenders.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Galilee Solicitors provides mortgage-focused legal services—including residential, commercial and SMSF mortgage lending and residential conveyancing—to Australian lenders, mortgage managers and brokers. Its digital mortgage fulfilment platform (KWIL, Orion, GOLD) handles end-to-end document signing, biometric identity verification, matter tracking and PEXA-integrated settlement, compressing the mortgage process by at least one week.

Product overview

Galilee Solicitors operates as a digital-first mortgage law firm offering a portfolio of interconnected technology products alongside legal services. Its core product suite consists of KWIL (digital document signing with biometric identity verification), Orion (broker and borrower portal), and GOLD (lender portal), all integrated into a unified digital mortgage fulfilment workflow that shortens processing time by at least a week.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• KWIL: Digital mortgage document signing platform with simultaneous identity verification, enabling paperless loan pack execution for mortgage lending.
• ORION

Products and services

• KWIL Galilee's award-winning digital mortgage document signing platform that enables borrowers to receive, sign and return loan documents completely paperless, with intelligent workflow checks, automated prevention of missing signatures or pages, and integrated Livesign biometric identity verification. Available standalone at www.kwil.com.au or as a white-label solution for lenders.
• Orion Galilee's broker and borrower portal providing intuitive matter tracking, document upload, task delegation to support teams, borrower self-service progress visibility, and mobile-friendly access. Available in broker-facing and borrower-facing versions at orion.galilee.com.au.
• GOLD Galilee's portal for Lenders and Mortgage Managers to track mortgage matters from instruction through to settlement, providing real-time visibility across the loan pipeline.
• Mortgage Legal Services Legal services for the mortgage industry covering residential, commercial and SMSF mortgage lending and residential conveyancing, structured for high-volume work and scalable to lender needs.

Quantifiable outcome

• Digital mortgage transactions: 80,000 per year
• +7 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

AI capability3 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core, strategic and partner.

• Livesign (TheLawStore.com.au)coreTechnology or Integration · 3 May 2023Livesign provides simultaneous Verification of Identity (VOI) and Verification of Signer (VOS) technology. KWIL integrates with Livesign to biometrically bind borrowers to their government-issued ID at the point of signing. Livesign CEO is Lara Paholski, former Director of Industry Partnerships at Galilee. The teams co-founded thelawstore.com.au.
• Customer Owned Banking Association (COBA)strategicGTM or Marketing Partner · 3 May 2023KWIL powered by Livesign was Platinum Sponsor of COBA 2023 conference on Gold Coast. COBA represents customer owned banks and mutual financial institutions. Sponsorship signifies commitment to helping customer owned banking segment compete in digital space.
• PEXAcoreTechnology or Integration · 1 January 2021PEXA is Australia's electronic conveyancing platform. Galilee integrates with PEXA for online lodgement and settlement, enabling digital mortgage processing. Galilee utilises PEXA's workspace for document handling and settlement booking. KWIL is specifically designed to work within PEXA ecosystem.
• CitibankpartnerChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorMajor Australian banking institution partnering with Galilee for mortgage settlement legal services.
• PepperpartnerChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorNon-bank lender partnering with Galilee for mortgage settlement legal services.
• ME BankpartnerChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorMutual bank partnering with Galilee for mortgage settlement legal services.
• Bendigo and Adelaide BankpartnerChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorRegional Australian bank partnering with Galilee for mortgage settlement legal services.

Scale indicators9 records

Broad incumbents

• PEXA: Australia's dominant electronic conveyancing platform. PEXA is both a strategic integration partner for Galilee's KWIL/Orion stack and a broader incumbent whose pricing and platform decisions shape Galilee's digital mortgage economics.
• HWL Ebsworth: Large national Australian law firm with a substantial banking and finance practice that includes mortgage and lender-side work. Overlaps with Galilee's mortgage legal services but at significantly greater scale and broader scope.
• HopgoodGanim Lawyers: Western Australian law firm with a strong banking and property practice. Overlaps with Galilee's mortgage settlement and conveyancing work, particularly in the WA market where Galilee also operates a Perth office.
• McCullough Robertson: Queensland-based commercial law firm with a banking and property practice. Competes with Galilee for lender-side mortgage and property work in Brisbane and nationally, albeit with a broader practice mix.
• Lavan: Western Australian law firm with a significant property and commercial practice. Comparable to Galilee's Perth mortgage settlement offering, though broader in scope and not technology-led in the same way.
• Lander & Rogers: National Australian law firm with a banking and finance practice. Comparable to Galilee on lender-side mortgage and property work, though broader in practice mix and not differentiated by a proprietary digital signing platform.

Direct peers

• First Title: Australian title search and settlement services provider. Directly comparable to Galilee's conveyancing and settlement workflow, serving lenders and brokers on similar matter types across the Australian mortgage lifecycle.

Emerging players

• Athena Home Loans: Digital-first Australian mortgage lender. Not a legal services peer, but a benchmark for end-to-end digital mortgage origination that competes for the same lender-relationship mindshare and pushes incumbents to adopt tech like Galilee's KWIL.
• Tic:Toc: Australian digital home loan platform (acquired by NAB). Represents the model of a fully digital mortgage workflow that could reduce reliance on traditional panel law firms, putting pressure on Galilee's settlement volume over time.

Others

• InfoTrack: Leading Australian legal technology provider for property searches, e-lodgement and conveyancing workflows. An ecosystem enabler and adjacent technology peer whose products intersect with Galilee's KWIL and Orion stack.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Subsidiaries3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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