Lawyer
Joy is a lawyer in Gilbert + Tobin’s Technology + Digital group. Joy has varied experience advising clients on their regulatory obligations and new developments involved with new technology offerings and emerging technologies, particularly in the areas of privacy, data protection, and data portability. Joy also has experience supporting clients on strategic contracting, including outsourcings and procurement transactions. Prior to joining G+T Joy worked at the ACCC in the CDR compliance and enforcement team and was involved in developing the CDR participant portal, guidance for applicants, and enforcement policy.
Gilbert + Tobinhttps://www.gtlaw.com.au/
jmkim@gtlaw.com.au
Partner, Fragomen
Chris is a Partner of the Australian Practice of Fragomen. Chris is an Accredited Immigration Law Specialist and has practiced immigration law since 1995.
Chris has extensive experience in providing immigration advice and assistance to Australian and global corporations in industry sectors such as construction and engineering, education, electricity and gas, mining, financial and insurance, retail, information technology and telecommunications. His extensive experience extends to representing individuals, as well as local and multinational corporations seeking to establish and/or operate in Australia.
Chris is a committee member of the Migration Law Committee of the Law Council of Australia and Chris also Chairs the Migration Law Committee of the Law Institute of Victoria.
Former contributor to Practical Guidance Personal Injury Queensland. Barrister, 31 West Chambers
Jo Sorbello is a barrister in private practice at the Queensland bar. Prior to being called to the bar, Jo practiced as a solicitor for over a decade and was an Accredited Specialist in Personal Injuries having been awarded the Highest Achievement award for the 2007 accreditation program.
Jo has extensive experience in all types of accident compensation claims including motor vehicle accidents, workers’ compensation, public liability and professional negligence claims.
Former Governance and Risk Consultant
Damian has a senior management background in corporate governance, enterprise risk management, corporate insurance and risk financing, legal compliance, infrastructure development, OHS and environmental management. He has recently worked as a work health and safety specialist contractor for Deloitte Risk Services.
Damian has worked for 12 years in the electricity industry in Queensland in risk management, compliance and legal risk and strategy roles. He has also worked in corporate governance and risk management roles in the public sector in Australia and was a non-executive director of North East Water, a state government water corporation in Australia, from 2008-11.
Damian is an accredited Lead Auditor of OHS Management Systems and has also completed the ICAM (Incident Cause Analysis Method) course on safety incident investigations. He has extensive experience on management systems development in the areas of risk and compliance, as well as OHS and environmental management. Damian has a Bachelor of Law, Bachelor of Arts and Graduate Diploma of Environmental Science from Monash University.
Former contributor to Practical Guidance IP, Principal, formerly at Shelston IP
Jack is a registered Australian and New Zealand Patent Marks Attorney and registered Australia Trade Marks Attorney with over 26 years of experience primarily in patent law and practice in Australia and New Zealand.
Jack’s primary focus is on the development and active management of local and global patent portfolios for enforcement, licensing and strategic commercial positioning. He works with executives, managers, in-house attorneys, inventors, and principals to develop and implement patent strategies and ensure that those strategies are integrated with the organisation’s overall business plan.
Jack’s technical specialties include computer-implemented inventions, process control, integrated circuits and electronic components.
Associate, formerly at Baker McKenzie
Matthew Salgo has experience across intellectual property as well as consumer law. He has acted for clients in a wide range of intellectual property disputes, including trade mark and copyright litigation in the Federal Court. He is involved in brand enforcement, anti-counterfeiting and anti-piracy practices.
Former contributor to Practical Guidance Commercial. Principal Lawyer, Aitken Partners
Christopher's initial experience was as a prosecutor for the Department of Transport in London but he subsequently became a partner in a North London firm and was a founder member of Camillins Solicitors in London and subsequently in Melbourne. He has worked on a number of interesting company and commercial and commercial property matters including the acquisition and break up of the former USAF Bentwaters air force base in the UK and various transactions involving the establishment and sale of Non-Fossil Fuel obligations and the sites for building Green power stations. Since coming to Victoria in 2002, Christopher has worked on a number of major property focussed matters including some significant residential development projects for clients.
Director
After being admitted to practice in 2018, I joined Tierney Law, where I am now a Director and Leader of our Property Law Practice Area. I also practice in Commercial Law.
I am a current member of the Property & Commercial Law Committee for the Law Society of Tasmania and an author of legal texts and precedent material for the leading international legal publisher, Lexis Nexis.
In 2021 I obtained my Graduate Certificate in Legal Business from the College of Law.
I have a keen interest in finding practical solutions for my clients to assist them to grow their lives and businesses.
Member of the Property & Commercial Committee for the Law Society of Tasmania
Tierney Law
03 6220 2777sebastian@tlaw.com.au
Senior Associate, Johnson Winter Slattery
Viva is a lawyer specialising in privacy, cyber, technology, intellectual property and consumer law as part of a broad commercial contracting and regulatory compliance practice.
She provides strategic and commercial advice to clients on managing privacy compliance, cyber security and data governance. She also assists clients to navigate data breaches, privacy complaints and workplace privacy obligations.
Her clients include high-profile Australian and global corporates and organisations.
Former contributor to Practical Guidance Employment. Partner, Corrs Chambers Westgarth
Jack de Flamingh specialises in providing innovative and tailor-made workplace relations solutions. Working closely with clients to achieve desired results, he is noted for his outstanding legal knowledge and the understanding he brings to matte.
Jack provides incisive strategic industrial relations advice. Jack regularly advises on the negotiation and interpretation of industrial instruments, and the practical resolution of collective and individual employee disputes. Jack is an experienced advocate who appears in industrial courts and tribunals, including by successfully defending a client in proceedings that have shaped the requirements for enterprise bargaining under the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth).
Jack has expertise in occupational health and safety and is focused on advising employers, senior managers and directors on OHS compliance. He acted for directors and senior managers of a large publicly listed company in successfully avoiding individual prosecution. He is also experienced in responding to safety incidents, managing safety investigations, dealing with regulatory authorities and conducting legal proceedings. Jack advises and appears in Coronial inquests.
Former contributor to Practical Guidance Commercial. Founding Partner, Somerville Legal Solicitors & Notaries
After becoming qualified in 1975, Tim became a partner in a medium size city firm. In 1983 Tim established Somerville & Co. The firm rapidly grew to be the largest firm in North Sydney.
Tim is an accredited specialist in business law and provides business and taxation advice to small and medium sized businesses. He was president of the North Metropolitan Law Society from 2005 to 2009 and has served on the Law Society Committee for specialist accreditation in business law.
Lawyer, Webb Henderson
Rosie is a competition and dispute resolution lawyer. She has experience acting for regulators and private clients in competition and consumer law matters. Rosie has represented and assisted the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and private clients in relation to contentious consumer law matters, merger reviews, investigations and responding to s 155 notices.
Former contributor to Practical Guidance Insolvency & Restructuring, Partner, Piper Alderman
Jonathan Hidayat is in Piper Alderman’s Dispute Resolution team based in Sydney.
Specialising in restructuring, corporate and personal insolvency and general commercial disputes, Jonathan advises and represents liquidators, administrators, receivers, bankruptcy trustees and directors in relation to business restructuring and insolvency issues.
He has extensive expertise in voidable transaction claims, winding up proceedings, recovery of debts, examinations and remuneration issues.
He regularly advises company directors in financial distress and is able to guide them through difficult financial issues, mitigate risks and helps to achieve the best potential outcomes.
Jonathan also provides advice and representation in connection with a variety of general commercial disputes including shareholder, lease and contractual disputes, debt recovery and matters involving misleading and deceptive conduct.
In addition, he provides advice in relation to agreements and complex contracts across a wide range of industries.
Partner and Personal Property Securities Advisor, Johnson Winter & Slattery
Craig has over 25 years specialist experience in banking and finance, securities, financial product regulation, restructuring and insolvency across a variety of industries including financial services, manufacturing, mining and resources, IT, property development, agriculture, tourism, transport, hospitals and medical facilities.
Craig is one of Australia's leading experts in securities law. He has written numerous publications and presented to many conferences and seminars on this and related topics. He was a member of the Australian Attorney General's Consultative Committee on Personal Property Securities Reform.
During his career Craig has practised in Sydney, Brisbane and Toronto, Canada.
Craig's expertise in the field of personal property securities include:
Personal Property Securities in Australia, Looseleaf Contact - LN LL Publishing
Craig is a part time lecturer at the University of Queensland. He has conducted numerous presentations, seminars and workshops on the PPSA for:
Johnson Winter & Slattery
Tel: +61 7 3002 2511 Email: craig.wappett@jws.com.au
Former contributor to Practical Guidance Banking & Finance. Lawyer, formerly at MinterEllison
Lawyer in the MinterEllison Banking & Finance practice group. Member of the APLMA.
Janine is an exceptional workplace relations practitioner. With an in-depth knowledge and understanding of the regulatory framework of workplace relations in Australia, Janine combines excellent technical and analytical skills to deal with complex legal issues in this challenging area of law. In particular, Janine has been involved in high-profile matters involving large-scale, complex employment law and industrial relations issues for Amcor Ltd; drafting of submissions in relation to the exceptions and exemptions in the Equal Opportunity Act 1995 for the Catholic Education Office and conduct of the Coronial Inquest into the level crossing deaths at Kerang, Trawalla and Stony Point for V/Line Pty Ltd.
Special Counsel, Norton Rose Fulbright
Stephen is a corporate technology lawyer based in Sydney. His practice focuses on advising businesses, funds and strategic investors/buyers in relation to M&A and investment work in the tech sector. He has extensive networks with VCs, private equity funds and banks. Prior to joining Norton Rose Fulbright, he was a senior in-house counsel to UK’s largest listed investment manager.
Stephen has also represented the Federal Government, investment and commercial banks, funds and companies in various corporate finance and securitisation matters. In addition, Stephen has led and overseen teams working on international and domestic bond transactions, leveraged loan deals, mergers & acquisitions, litigation, complex restructurings and dealings with local regulators, governments and The IMF.
He was an advisory board member for: xbullion, a blockchain settlement layer; Shape History, a for-purpose social impact consultancy; and was a guest lecturer at London Business School. Stephen is admitted as a solicitor in NSW, Australia and in England & Wales.
Email: stephen.pattersonfang@nortonrosefulbright.com
Phone: +61 2 9330 8536
Partner, Zhong Lun Law Firm, People’s Republic of China
Mr Wang is a partner of Zhong Lun Law Firm of the PRC since August 2014. He is admitted in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Australia.
Before joining Zhong Lun Law Firm, he had worked with Allens in Shanghai and Hong Kong as a senior associate / senior consultant in Feb 2006 – July 2014. During such period, he was a key member of the “China desk” of Allens and advised many Australian companies on doing business in China.
He specializes in cross-border M&A and investment, general corporate, personal data protection and cyber security.
He has acted for international companies from various industries, including TMT, finance, medical / healthcare, and energy / resource.
He has advised hundreds of Australian companies on investment in the PRC or on trading / financing transactions involving PRC legal or regulatory issues.
He understands the needs of Australian clients and can guide them through the complex PRC legal issues using clear, concise and to the point English language. He thinks thoroughly and delivers practical and efficient solutions.
Email: waynewang@zhonglun.com
D: +86 20 2826 1786
M: +86 139 2891 7500