Principal and Founder, Local Knowledge
Graham Chee is the principal and founder of Local Knowledge — an FCPA-led practice that brings institutional-grade compliance, investment-structure and intellectual-property experience directly to owner-operated SMEs and founder-led businesses. Graham's earlier career spans Goldman Sachs, BNP Investment Management and Merrill Lynch. He holds an Australian Financial Services Licence through Global Mutual Funds and has been recognised as a finalist in the Australian Accounting Awards every year from 2019 to 2025.
Established the Australian organisational structure required for membership of the Sydney Futures Exchange — covering the finance and accounting, compliance and dealing functions. Reviewed and prepared the trading profit-and-loss, the risk-management reporting and the mark-to-market of portfolios.
Responsible for compliance, operations, finance, information technology and legal across the investment operation. Advised institutional clients on investment structures, and managed the finance, legal and operational activities spanning a suite of managed funds and individual client mandates.
Regional marketing for offshore managed investments — advising on, and preparing, asset structures across shares, managed funds, derivatives, property and cash. Established the wealth-management strategy for superannuation and launched a superannuation master trust and wrap account. Built a suite of US mutual-fund structures in Australia, including the legal, operational and compliance work required by the regulator and the prospectus regime. Authored the service manual and the policies and procedures for asset-management operations — compliance, daily unit pricing, custody, responsible-entity requirements and risk management. Also led sales alliances and product management for the associated securities dealer, including the application for an investor-directed portfolio-service licence and the day-to-day running of the managed-funds supermarket.
AFSL-licensed financial-services firm integrating intellectual property and technology across asset-management operations, IP management (trademarks and patents), accounting, taxation and IT. Advises and deals in capital raisings and capital structures (equity, debt and hybrid).
The accounting and advisory practice. Forensic accounting, taxation, governance, risk and compliance, and litigation support. Six specialisations: accounting, taxation, commercialisation, branding, management and trademark registration.
Tooling and community for startup founders — financial projection and modelling, mortgage and finance broking tools, and a compliance suite augmented with chatbots and cognitive tools. Australian Fintech Awards finalist 2021 (Best Use of AI in Regtech).
Asset-management group providing operational, regulatory and marketing services for international boutique asset managers in Australia — investment-management questionnaires, operational establishment and monitoring, corporate governance and compliance.
Boutique AFSL-licensed fund-of-funds investing in leading Asian equities funds. Portfolio manager of the Asian Masters Fund — outperformed the MSCI Asia Pacific (ex Japan) index by 29% in AUD terms from IPO in December 2007 to 31 December 2009.
AI implementation across assisted, augmented, automated and advanced intelligence — focused on risk management, controls, accountability and transparency across accounting, taxation, legal services, digital transformation, cybersecurity, finance and real estate.
Strategic-compliance consultancy. GRACE (Governance, Risk, Assurance, Compliance, Education) is a tailored framework for each client organisation.
IP commercialisation firm — search, registration, commercialisation and ongoing management of trademarks. Covers the accounting, taxation, marketing, sales, governance, research, valuation and commercialisation of IP. Uses the Art of Start® process from engagement design through to product launch and transaction.
Venture vehicle combining accounting, taxation, business advisory, IP, corporate finance, capital raisings, corporate governance and secretarial, technology and cybersecurity expertise into a single offering — built on the founders’ combined 60+ years of international markets experience.
Real-estate and proptech group focused on AI and NLP for residential and commercial real estate. Uses instant-message functionality for agents, developers and operators — polls, surveys and 24×7 marketing, communication and correspondence delivery.
Retired as portfolio manager in December 2009 to focus on other business commitments.