Modules:

• Family

Biography:

Modules:

• Succession

Biography:

Raymond is a Consultant at Moisson Legal.

Raymond has many years of experience providing comprehensive estate and business succession planning services including structuring, tax advice and the implementation of all relevant documentation. He has been able to utilise his taxation skills in advising and structuring a range of clients in business succession planning, personal estate planning and asset protection.

Modules:

• Intellectual Property

Biography:

Gillian is a key senior member of Baker McKenzie's IP practice. She specialises in advising clients on brand strategy, trade mark clearances and registration and manages global trade mark portfolios on behalf of her clients. She also represents clients in trade mark opposition proceedings and advises in relation to corporate transactional due diligence projects. Gillian acts for key international clients of the firm including a global FMCG corporation which owns one of the largest brands portfolios in the world, a multinational that owns a number of well-known quick service restaurant brands, a global play and entertainment company with familiar games and entertainment brands and corporations which have portfolios of prestige and renowned cosmetics and beauty care brands.

Speaking Engagements

• IPSANZ National Conference 2021

Awards & Recognition

• Best Lawyers in Australia for Intellectual Property since 2020.

Memberships

• Vice-President, Trans-Tasman National committee of the Intellectual Property Society of Australia and New Zealand (IPSANZ)
• Member of the Asian Australian Lawyers Association NSW committee

Professional Organisations

• Baker McKenzie

Professional Contact

Mobile: +61 2 8922 5486,  +61 466 752 772

Email: gillian.woon@bakermckenzie.com

Modules:

• Commercial

Biography:

Jo specialises in M&A, joint ventures and capital raisings and works with clients to get “investor-ready” and “deal-ready”. She regularly helps clients with shareholder arrangements, governance arrangements that allow businesses to scale and grow as well as exits and acquisitions.

Jo is well experienced in working on both sides of the spectrum, working with both founders and private capital, and has a pragmatic and commercial approach in finding solutions for her clients. She also has extensive experience helping boards navigate regulatory environments, corporate governance and disclosure obligations for listed companies.

Jo has experience working with clients undertaking Energy M&A, particularly in renewable energy. Jo has extensive expertise working with clients across a range of other industry sectors including financial services, industrials and healthcare. She has previously worked in Hong Kong, where she enhanced her international capability helping clients implement their acquisition and divestment strategies in the Asian market and advised on listings on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

Modules:

• Banking & Finance

Biography:

Geoff is a partner in MinterEllison's Capital Markets and Corporate Group, specialising in corporate and structured finance. He has advised financiers, PE houses, sponsors and corporate borrowers on a broad range of corporate and finance work including complex and structured syndicated financing arrangements, leveraged acquisitions and capital markets transactions.

Having spent 7 years working in London at a top tier US firm, Geoff has broad experience acting on large multinational financing transactions (governed by both NY law and English law). Geoff also has significant debt capital markets experience, acting on numerous listed and unlisted convertible note, quasi-equity and debt capital markets transactions.

Awards & Recognition

• IFLR1000 – Notable practitioner (Capital Markets: Debt financial and corporate M&A)
• Doyles Leading Banking & Finance Lawyers in Melbourne, 2020  – Recommended

Speaking Engagements

• French Australian Chamber of Commerce speaker – Building Sustainable Businesses (2019)
• University of Melbourne - Sustainable Finance: Trends and Challenges panellist (2019)

Memberships

• Member of the Asia Pacific Loan Market Association (Australian Branch) (APLMA)
• Member of the Banking & Financial Services Law Association Limited (BFSLA)

Professional Organization

MinterEllison
www.minterellison.com

LinkedIn
(21) Geoff Earl | LinkedIn

Professional Contact

https://www.minterellison.com/people/geoff-earl

Email: geoff.earl@minterellison.com

Modules:

• Competition

Biography:

Biography:

Peggy is the Head of Commercial Group – Practical Guidance and is responsible for the content development of a number of practice areas. She works closely with a team of in-house legal writers all with direct practice experience and dedicated to ensuring the content of Practical Guidance reflects the latest developments in law and practice. Peggy comes from a commercial litigation background and has practised for over 10 years as a solicitor in Australia and Hong Kong.

Peggy comments on the latest legal developments for LexisNexis. Some recent examples include:

• Podcast: Evolution of data, privacy & IP: What you need to know in the age of AI where Peggy discusses the main issues that businesses need to know from a data, privacy and IP perspective with Alec Christie, Partner, Clyde & Co.

Contact

peggy.wong@lexisnexis.com.au

Modules:

• Consumer

Biography:

Annette Hughes is a Commercial Litigation partner at Corrs Chambers Westgarth, where she leads the firm's national Product Liability Practice Group. Annette is also on the firm's Executive Leadership Team and Chairs its Diversity Council. Her Product Liability experience is truly international, as she was a partner in the Product Liability group at US firm Sedgwick and Australian firm Allens (2001 - 2011), prior to taking leadership of the Corrs Product Liability Group.

Annette has acted for many domestic and internationally renowned brands, helping them to strategically and effectively manage their product issues from risk management and regulatory matters (compliance, investigations, recalls, etc) through to multi-jurisdictional litigation, and class actions. She is described by her clients as commercial and strategic, cutting through complexity to get the best outcomes.

Annette was assisted by Simon Frauenfelder, Andrew Burns and Shane Cooper.

Biography:

Naomi is a market-leading, strategic, commercially astute, patent lawyer, patent attorney and trademark attorney, with over 25 years’ experience, and a background in molecular biology/biochemistry. Naomi is the founder of Pearce IP, which commenced in 2017 and won “IP Team of the Year” four years later at the 2021 Australian Law Awards and continues winning awards to this day.

Underpinning Naomi’s legal work is a deep understanding of life sciences industries, resulting from first-hand experience and knowledge as VP of IP in-house at global pharma giants, and Partner of a top-tier international law firm. Naomi’s clients value her creative, pragmatic solutions to IP/legal “problems”, and she is recognised by the industry as a market leader in patent litigation, freedom to operate (FTO) clearances, and strategic advice.

Drawing from her considerable in-house IP leadership experience and her experience as a partner and leader at a top-tier law firm with a global presence, Naomi builds elegant market entry strategies which align with clients’ commercial objectives, and are anchored with legal and technical excellence. Naomi manages AU patent litigations in the Australian Courts and excels in multi-jurisdictional litigations. In addition to Australian patent office and federal court proceedings, Naomi has worked with agents overseas to build and manage US Hatch Waxman litigations, US BPCIA strategies and proceedings, CA PMNOC proceedings, patent litigations in AU, HK, UK, DE, NE, NZ, PO, IE (among other regions), and patent oppositions before EPO, AU and NZ. Naomi’s clients use her global litigation experience to assist them develop and manage global litigation strategies with many moving parts, and to coordinate global litigations.

Naomi’s industry focus is life sciences, with a particular focus on health, pharmaceuticals/ biopharmaceuticals, medical devices, biotechnology, animal and veterinary healthcare agricultural technology (ag-tech), food technology (food-tech, including precision fermentation), medical technology (med-tech), gene editing technologies (including CRISPR), gene therapy and cell therapy.

Naomi has a significant practice assisting pharma/biopharma companies to prepare for the launch of generic and biosimilar medicines in Australia and overseas. Naomi’s 13 years with global biosimilars responsibility at Pfizer (Hospira) and at executive level at Mylan put her ahead of the curve on issues relating to the global development and launch of generics and biosimilars.

Modules:

• Property

Biography:

Andrew is recognised in Doyle’s Guide as a leading Australian tax barrister specialising in tax litigation and dispute resolution. Andrew also advises on Australia-wide taxes, including stamp duties, land tax and payroll tax.

Prior to coming to the Bar, Andrew was an Associate to Justice Michael Kirby and a Solicitor.

Andrew lectures in taxation law at the University of Sydney Law School, judges mooting competitions for the University of NSW and previously lectured in taxation law at the University of Technology, Sydney. Andrew also edits the leading stamp duty publication “Australian Stamp Duties Law”.

Andrew is a Chartered Tax Adviser and Examiner with The Tax Institute and a member of the Tax Institute/Revenue NSW Liaison Committee and Dispute Resolution Technical Committee. Andrew is also a member of the NCAT Revenue List Consultative Forum.

Professional Organisations

• Level 22 Chambers

Modules:

• Competition

Biography:

Sar is the Practice Group Head for Competition Law at Johnson Winter Slattery.  He has over 25 years’ experience in advising clients on all aspects of competition and consumer law and is known for acting on complex mergers, cartels, ACCC investigations and access to infrastructure issues.  He is regularly ranked as a leading lawyer in international and national directories including Chambers, Legal 500, Best Lawyers, Doyle’s Guide, Who’s Who Legal and Client Choice.

Sar has acted on transformative deals including illion/Experian, Flinders/Aurizon, Nutrien/Ruralco, Seven West/Bauer, Qantas/Emirates and Yahoo/Microsoft.

He has also been involved in landmark cases including the first-ever criminal cartel where individuals were sentenced to jail (Vina Money) and the laundry detergent cartel (Unilever) and has represented Qantas and Yahoo! in ACCC prosecutions.

He is an expert in access to infrastructure issues in the rail, port and gas sector and is trusted advisor to the gas industry in respect of the Code of Conduct and government policy. Sar is also a leading FMCG specialist.

Awards and Recognition
Client Choice Award x 2
Chambers
Legal 500
Best Lawyers
Doyle’s Guide
Who’s Who Legal

Memberships
Law Council of Australia
International Bar Association

Speaking Engagements
Law Ninjas 2025
Agribusiness Law Conference 2024

Modules:

• Dispute Resolution

Biography:

Daniel practises in class actions, commercial, tort and the coronial jurisdiction.

He is a contributing author (with David L Bailey) of Civil Procedure Victoria and is a nationally accredited mediator.

Prior to joining the Bar, Daniel was the Class Actions Coordinator at the Supreme Court of Victoria and worked with the Honourable Justice Jack Forrest in the Kilmore Black Saturday Bushfire Class Action.

He was previously Associate to the Honourable Justice Pagone (then Judge in Charge of the Commercial Court of the Supreme Court of Victoria).

Daniel read with Simon McGregor (now Coroner) and his senior mentor is Andrew Keogh SC (now Supreme Court Justice).

Memberships

• Immediate past President of Asian Australian Lawyers Association (Victoria)
• Member of the Victorian Bar Council

Professional Organisation

Victorian Bar profile: https://www.vicbar.com.au/profile/8140
LinkedIn profile: www.linkedin.com/in/danieldominicnguyen

Modules:

• Intellectual Property

Biography:

Angela practises in all aspects of Intellectual Property including patents, trade marks, copyright, designs and consumer protection. Angela has been featured in Doyle’s Intellectual Property list since 2021. Angela regularly appears in the Federal Court of Australia, including the Full Court, various state Supreme Courts, the Patent Office and the Trade Mark Office.

Prior to coming to bar, Angela was a solicitor in two specialist IP firms. Angela was also the Associate to Justice Nicholas of the Federal Court of Australia where she gained extensive experience in intellectual property disputes and large commercial matters.

Angela graduated with first class honours in law from the University of New South Wales. Angela is also on the Editorial Panel for the Australian Intellectual Property Law Bulletin, is a co-author of the LexisNexis Australia Copyright & Designs chapter on International Copyright and has also authored a number of publications in intellectual property law.

Modules:

• Intellectual Property

Biography:

Michael’s undergraduate degree was in industrial chemistry. He then studied for his PhD, in which he conducted research in the field of free radical polymerization, and polymer chemistry generally.

Prior to joining Shelston IP, Michael worked for Dulux in its resin technology laboratories while simultaneously completing a Graduate Certificate in surface coatings technology. Michael has also worked at the James Hardie research and product development laboratories, where he conducted research into fibre cement composites and building products. Michael’s industrial experience also extends to polymer extrusion techniques and injection moulding.

Michael has drafted and prosecuted patent applications in diverse fields of technology. For example, in the fields of: welding, polymer composites, surface coatings, electrothermic coatings, polymerisation catalysts, systems for nucleic acid amplification, biocompatible materials, optical input devices, cementitious materials, building products, medical devices, and mining methods Michael is a Chartered Chemist of the Royal Australia Chemical Institute, and won the RACI Treloar Prize for his PhD research. He is also a named inventor on a PCT application.

Patent Attorney specialising in:

• Polymer Chemistry
• Inorganic Chemistry
• Materials Science
• Nanotechnology
• Chemical Engineering and Process Technology
• Biotechnology and Life Sciences
• Medical Devices and Diagnostic Technology
• Optics and Photonics

Biography:

Fiona has more than eight years’ experience providing legal advice across a variety of sectors. Fiona practiced as a solicitor at Allens and the not-for-profit LawRight (formerly QPILCH) in Brisbane before relocating to the United Kingdom. In London, Fiona worked as in-house commercial legal counsel at the non-departmental government body The Single Source Regulations Office, the multinational jeweller Swarovski and the global news publisher The Guardian. Fiona has diverse practical experience in consumer and contract law.

She is admitted in the Supreme Court of Queensland.

Fiona was shortlisted for the QUT Undergraduate Writing Prize in 2011.

Contact

Fiona.thatcher@lexisnexis.com.au

Modules:

• Commercial

Biography:

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.

Modules:

• Construction

Biography:

Andrew has acted in a substantial number of successful complex litigious matters in various State and Federal Courts and he has acted for and advised clients across a wide range of industries and professions including building and construction, engineering, defence and professional practice. Andrew advises clients strategically about their dispute and how best to achieve the outcome they seek. He regularly appears in Court as counsel on behalf of his clients. 

Andrew is skilled in achieving client outcomes through mediation, arbitration and other forms of alternative dispute resolution (ADR). He advises clients regarding the advantages and disadvantages on using ADR. Where ADR is used he often appears as counsel on behalf of his clients. Andrew is qualified in mediation and arbitration (domestic and international), was a National Councillor and National Treasurer of the Institute of Arbitrator and Mediators and was the Treasurer of the South Australian Chapter.

Awards and Recognition
Doyle’s Guide – Leading Construction & Infrastructure Litigation Lawyers – South Australia, since 2015 edition

Memberships
Nationally Accredited Mediator (NMAS) 
Grade 1 arbitrator (Resolution Institute) 
Fellow, CPA Australia 
Fellow, Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration 
Fellow, Resolution Institute 
Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators 
Fellow, Asian Institute of Alternative Dispute Resolution 
Fellow, Philippines Institute of Arbitrators 
Chair, International Legal Practice Committee – Law Society of South Australia 
Member, ADR Committee – Law Society of South Australia 
Member, LAWASIA ADR and Litigation Committee 
Founder & National Chair, Society of Construction Law Australia 
Member, Construction and Infrastructure Committee – Law Council of Australia 

Speaking Engagements
IPSANZ: 07/08/2024 - Perspectives from an advocate and an arbitrator 
Resolution Institute: 22/10/2024 - Will Arbitration Survive Two Momentous Decisions? 
Law Society of South Australia: 22/11/2024 – The High Court and Arbitration 

Modules:

• Cybersecurity, Data Protection & Privacy

Biography:

Melissa is a Partner in the Tech + IP group of Gilbert + Tobin. She has spent the majority of her career at Gilbert + Tobin working in technology law, however, she also spent a long stint at Linklaters in London working as a Managing Associate.

Melissa is a data and privacy specialist who dedicates a significant part of her practice to regularly advising clients on privacy and data protection compliance obligations and to considering how clients’ use of technology and data, and the commercialisation of data, may be structured to meet their legislative requirements and also the best contractual outcome.

Melissa’s privacy and data experience includes:

• assisting organisations in assessing and complying with their privacy obligations, particularly businesses in highly regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare and telecommunications, or businesses undertaking new and innovative structures to capitalise on their data assets. This includes advising on federal, state and health records legislation;
• advising on commercialisation of data and privacy-related issues in a transactional context. Such transactions include cloud computing and other offshoring arrangements, data sharing and analytics licensing arrangements, M&A, insolvencies and complex transactions generally; and
• advising on privacy failures and data breach issues, including on reporting obligations to, and investigations conducted by, privacy regulators.

Melissa’s practice also involves advising on complex outsourcing, IT and related procurement or supply transactions, from both a customer and supplier perspective, including IT and digital transformation projects and business process outsourcing.

Awards & Recognition

Melissa is recognised in Best Lawyers 2022 for IT Law and Privacy and Data Security Law; by Legal 500 as a Leading Individual for Data Protection; and is recommended in Doyle’s Guide for Technology, Media & Telecommunications.

Memberships

Melissa is a member of the Privacy and Data Law Committee of the NSW Law Society.

Professional Organisation

Gilbert + Tobin
Melissa Fai