Director, MacDonnells Law
Luckbir is a MacDonnells Law Director in the state-wide Commercial Law Team. Luckbir’s approach is to understand his client’s business focus and desired outcome so as to provide a legal service, which not only provides a high degree of technical proficiency, but also reflects the practical commercial world realities.
Luckbir's experience in commercial areas of practice covers a broad range of matters including duties, corporate advisory, body corporate, trusts, entity structuring, large scale commercial transactions, mixed use property development, dealing with and advising on GST, business contracts, leasing, drafting contracts for unique and one-off arrangements, securities, farming, property, business and commercial acquisitions and disposals, corporation affairs and association dealings and many others.
Partner, Hamilton Locke
A commercially-focused senior litigator, Elena specialises in complex construction and commercial disputes, and has significant expertise in arbitration, litigation, expert determinations and dispute resolution boards. Elena has particular expertise in delay and programming disputes, having led these aspects of litigation for clients on several matters.
She is known for her strong commercial acumen and ability to distil complex legal issues into clearly understandable principles. In addition to her strong legal skills, Elena is well-practised at leading large multi-disciplinary teams of lawyers, experts and consultants. She consistently endeavours to foster relationships with her clients and colleagues by taking a collaborative and interactive approach to her work.
Elena has been recognised within the Legal 500 rankings for ‘consistently demonstrating exceptional performance throughout engagement. She exemplifies dedication, professionalism, and a deep commitment to achieving outstanding results for her clients.’
Elena has completed a Masters of Construction Law at The University of Melbourne, which supplements her extensive construction litigation experience. She has also attended the National University of Singapore’s leadership development programme.
MembershipsSociety of Construction Law Women in Property
Speaking EngagementsSociety of Construction Law – National Conference University of Melbourne, Construction Law Masters
Former contributor to Practical Guidance Criminal. Barrister, formerly at Legal Aid NSW
Riyad is a Law Society of NSW accredited specialist in criminal law. He commenced his career in criminal law in 2010 with Nyman Gibson Stewart (now Nyman Gibson Miralis) Lawyers. He is currently employed with Legal Aid NSW and has worked at offices in Penrith, Sydney and Newcastle. Riyad has represented clients in the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal, Supreme Court, District Court and Local Court. He has practised extensively across summary, committals and indictable practice areas. Riyad regularly works with experienced counsel in serious matters, including senior counsel in several high profile homicide cases. He is an experienced advocate in Local Court and District Court proceedings. Riyad has prepared and presented papers on matters of criminal practice and procedure including Fitness in Local Court Proceedings and Breaches of Suspended Sentences.
Principal, elevenM
Arjun specialises in strategic advice and communications expertise in relation to cyber security and privacy. He is a former journalist for the Sydney Morning Herald and has worked in media relations and corporate communications roles at large private sector and government organisations. Arjun helps clients with a variety of strategic communications needs in relation to cyber security and privacy, including strategy development, crisis communications planning, board and executive training and other communications and research activities.
Professional Organisation
elevenM website: https://elevenm.com.au/Podcast: https://anchor.fm/elevenmLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/10676339/admin/
Senior Associate, Webb Henderson
Bronwen is a competition and dispute resolution lawyer. She has particular experience acting in commercial disputes, regulatory investigations, enforcement action and white collar criminal proceedings. She has acted for regulators, large corporations, company directors, professionals and major insurers across a broad range of industries, including healthcare, technology, mining, construction, banking and finance.
Former contributor to Practical Guidance Consumer. Partner, Minter Ellison
Katrina is a competition and regulatory lawyer with a wealth of experience in highly regulated industries. Her practice includes merger clearances, authorisations and notifications, third-party access, price regulation, competition-related litigation and consumer protection. She regularly deals with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.
Katrina was assisted by: Jaime Lee, Associate; Eric White, Lawyer; and Wesley Lalich, Lawyer.
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.
Principal, DGT Costs Lawyers
Kerrie Rosati is regarded as one of the professions leading experts in legal costs law. Kerrie works from both the Sydney and the Brisbane offices. Kerrie is a Court Appointed Costs Assessor in Queensland.
She has acted in and advised on legal costs issues in many high profile and complex cases in New South Wales, Queensland, the ACT and all Federal jurisdictions. Kerrie also lectures regularly to the legal profession (nationally and internationally) on legal costing issues for the Law Societies of New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Australian Capital Territory, Northern Territory and Tasmania, Legalwise, the College of Law and other commercial seminar providers.
Kerrie is a current member of the Costs Committee and Ethics Committee of the Law Society of NSW and the Costs Advisory Service of the QLS.
Kerrie graduated with a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Technology in 1988 and was admitted as a solicitor in New South Wales on 1 July 1988.
After working in a large commercial law firm and taking some time off to raise her family, Kerrie joined DGT in February 1998 becoming the principal of the practice in 2007.
Kerrie is also a trained mediator and part of the DGT Costs Mediation team.
Email: kerrie.rosati@dgt.com.au
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kerrie-rosati-5165431b/
Former contributor to Practical Guidance Personal Injury New South Wales. Partner, Carroll & O'Dea Lawyers
Since 1989 Tim has practised in Personal Injury. Tim has been a CARS Assessor of the Motor Accidents Authority since 2004. Since 2008, he has been a member of the Injury Compensation Committee of the Law Society of NSW. Tim is an accredited specialist in the area of personal injury law.
First Nations Arts and Culture Director for Creative Australia (formerly known as the Australia Council for the Arts)
Patricia is a Wuthathi, Mabuiag Islander and Ghanaian woman from Warrane/ Sydney. She has a Bachelor of Arts and Law from UNSW and is the First Nations Arts and Culture Director for Creative Australia (formerly known as the Australia Council for the Arts). Previously, Patricia was the Indigenous engagement manager at the Copyright Agency l Viscopy. She is also a 2018 Churchill fellowship recipient, investigating the practical application of laws in the USA and Panama that protect Indigenous cultural rights.Patricia has worked on developing the Protocols for using First Nations Cultural and Intellectual Property in the Arts. Patricia has served on the City of Sydney, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander advisory panel and has been a Board member of the Contemporary Pacific Arts Festival and the Moogahlin Performing Arts Board. She is currently on the RAP advisory committees for Beyond Blue and Intrepid Travel. She is an advisory member of the Sunshine Coast Arts Committee. She is also a published author and has also written several articles and a chapter on Indigenous cultural intellectual property rights.In 2010, Patricia worked at the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) in Geneva as the 2010 Indigenous Intellectual Property Law Fellow. This position provided valuable insight into the traditional knowledge division’s work that is being done as the Secretariat for the international normative process on the draft international instruments on Traditional knowledge. Trish also previously worked as a lawyer at the Arts Law Centre of Australia and National Indigenous TV. She is also a published author, having written several articles and a chapter on Indigenous cultural intellectual property rights.
Churchill Fellowship Medallion for research in Indigenous cultural rights
Former contributor to Practical Guidance Immigration. Former Senior Associate, Fragomen
Simon is an experienced practitioner of immigration law. Simon specialises in providing complex legal advice and formulating immigration management strategies which identify and resolve areas of risk. Simon also works with government and parliamentary bodies with a view to clarifying government policy and improving the operation of visa programs.
Former contributor to LexisNexis Personal Injury Queensland. Barrister, formerly at Darrow Chambers
Brett Charrington has been in practice at the private bar in Queensland since April 1996. He has specialized in personal injury litigation for most of his career, with a sub-specialty of dust disease litigation.
His practice is evenly divided between plaintiff and defendant litigation.He has appeared in all jurisdictions in Queensland, and in the Supreme Court of Victoria. He appeared in the Commonwealth Commission of Inquiry into the Outbreak of Equine Influenza in Sydney in 2007 – 2008.
Former contributor to Practical Guidance Criminal. Barrister, formerly at 7 Garfield Barwick Chambers
David has a wide range of experience appearing as an advocate in all jurisdictions in NSW, and has successfully appeared unled in contested substantive proceedings in the NSW Court of Appeal, Court of Criminal Appeal and Common Law Division of the Supreme Court.
The following is a short selection of recent cases that David has appeared in (some client names abbreviated for matters not widely in public domain):
R v Tuhakaraina [2016] NSWCCA 81 – unled, successfully resisted Crown appeal for inadequacy of sentence
JC v Director of Public Prosecutions (NSW) [2014] NSWCA 228 – unled, successful judicial review challenge to lower court decision relating to statutory interpretation
R v JR (No.4) [2013] NSWSC 1106 – led by S Russell, acquittal for murder and manslaughter following judge-alone trial
WorkCover Authority of NSW v SF (3 October 2014, NSWDC, unreported) – unled, acquittal for various offences relating to onsite workplace death; favourable costs order made
R v Moylan [2014] NSWSC 944 – led by Sutherland SC, widely publicised sentence proceedings relating to protester’s hoax ANZ-press release for Whitehaven Coal; full-time custodial sentence not imposed
BSF v Roads and Maritime Services [2014] NSWSC 858 – unled, successful judicial review challenge to public authority’s decision to cancel public transport accreditation in denial of procedural fairness
Prior to coming to the Bar, David was a senior member of two of Sydney’s leading private law firms that specialised in criminal law and, prior to that, land use and environmental planning.
Solicitor, formerly Legal Assistant at Bartley Cohen Law
Sophie spent three years while completing her law degree working as a legal assistant at a leading boutique disputes and commercial litigation law firm where she was exposed to an array of commercial disputes with a focus on professional indemnity.
Sophie served as Associate to the now retired Honourable Justice James Douglas of the Supreme Court of Queensland in 2019 and the Honourable Justice Ann Lyons, Senior Judge Administrator of the Supreme Court of Queensland in 2020. During this time Sophie gained experience in a broad variety of matters and developed an in-depth understanding of advocacy as well as practice and procedure in Queensland.
Partner, King & Wood Mallesons
Peta is well-recognised in the highly specialised field of cartel and competition litigation, and with an established track record leading complex litigation, including class actions. Her practice includes advising clients on competition regulatory investigation and enforcement matters, including liaising with international counsel in global investigations and working closely with economic and other experts.
Peta advises on the application of the anti-competitive conduct, consumer protection and access provisions of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth) and related state legislation. She has acted in the Federal and State Local and Supreme Courts and appeared before ICAC at other state tribunals. She is a regular contributor to debates on regulatory reform.
Former contributor to Practical Guidance Immigration. Former Special Counsel, Fragomen
Robert is the Regional Managing Partner of the firm's extensive Asia Pacific practice. Robert is responsible for the strategic direction and the operations of all Fragomen offices in the Asia Pacific region including offices in Auckland, Bangalore, Beijing, Brisbane, Guanhzhou, Hong Kong, Kochi, Melbourne, North Ryde, Perth, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney and Wellington.
Ron provides strategic advice and solutions designed to meet the overseas workforce needs of businesses in all sectors with a particular focus on resources. He is currently assisting clients with Enterprise Migration Agreements, Regional Migration Agreements and Labour Agreements. Ron has been recognised for five consecutive years in the Australian Financial Review's Best Lawyers, one of the leading peer-based ranking of lawyers in Australia and overseas.
Ron's primary interest is in how companies can utilise the global talent pool to create mobile and productive workforces by coordinating workforce planning, recruitment, visa management and compliance.
Ron is also interested in public policy and has coordinated a number of significant policy submissions to Government.
Former contributor to Practical Guidance Corporations. Formerly Partner, Piper Alderman
Craig is a corporate law specialist and has extensive experience in advising on corporate and securities law, as well as general commercial matters. Craig has significant experience in corporate advisory, including advising on directors duties, corporate governance, and mergers and acquisitions for private, public and ASX listed companies in a variety of industries, including mining and resources, technology and financial services.
In addition, Craig has advised many private and public companies in relation to their capital raising needs, from angel or venture capital funding for early stage entrepreneurs and start-up companies, to IPOs for companies in biotechnology, resources and information technology.
Legal Director, Dwyer Harris
Patrick Dwyer is a corporate and financial services lawyer with over 20 years’ experience in Australia and the United States in top-tier law firms and as an in-house General Counsel. Patrick is valued by his clients for his clear, commercial advice and high levels of service.
At Dwyer Harris, a leading business law firm, he works with clients ranging from multinationals to start-ups including fintech businesses.
Patrick specialises in corporate transactions such as acquisitions, fundraising and joint ventures, financial services regulation, commercial agreements, and financing transactions including lending and asset finance.
He was a General Counsel at GE, leading the legal team with responsibility for its home lending and insurance businesses in Australia.
Patrick also practised law in New York with an international firm for a number of years, where he worked on mergers and acquisitions, capital markets and asset finance matters.
He has managed large transactions and legal projects such as the establishment of joint ventures, major asset sales, financial product development, regulator and board investigations, and compliance implementation projects for financial institutions.
Patrick graduated in 1994 with a Bachelor of Laws with First Class Honours from the University of Technology, Sydney. He also holds a First Class Honours degree in Arts from the University of Sydney.
Patrick is admitted to practice law in New South Wales, Victoria, the Australian Capital Territory, the High Court of Australia, England and Wales and New York and is also a public notary in New South Wales.