Biography:

Elizabeth has more than 15 years corporate law experience at leading firms in Australia including Minter Ellison (Sydney), Baker McKenzie (Sydney) and Norton Rose (Perth). Elizabeth has acted on numerous private equity and private M&A transactions as well as advisory matters in corporate law.

Elizabeth acted as the Regional Professional Support Lawyer for Asia Pacific for Baker McKenzie for several years where she specialised in knowledge management for corporate and M&A including resource development and facilitation of training in corporate law both in Australia and Asia.

Immediately prior to joining the team at LexisNexis, Elizabeth practised in-house as Senior Legal Counsel at a gold mining company with assets in West Africa where she advised on corporate and governance issues, led negotiations for key contracts and advised on commercial strategy.

Elizabeth is fluent in French and has worked with legal and financial colleagues in France, Mali and Senegal during her career.

Contact

elizabeth.lane@lexisnexis.com.au

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:

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:

• Intellectual Property

Biography:

Nicholas is a registered Australian Patent and Trade Marks Attorney and a registered New Zealand Patent Attorney who has been in the industry for over 10 years.

Nicholas primarily works in the fields of communications technology and electrical engineering patents.

Nicholas previously worked with a leading international telecommunications company. Prior to this, Nicholas completed a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) majoring in Telecommunications and a Bachelor of Commerce majoring in Finance and Econometrics.

Nick has been involved in providing commercial advice, patent drafting and all aspects of prosecution across a number of technology fields in a number of patent jurisdictions, including matters in the following fields: electrical components (particularly supercapacitive components), electrical fault detection devices, traffic signal controllers and software-based inventions including financial and social networking type inventions.

Modules:

• Mergers & Acquisitions

Biography:

Gavin is a partner in the Corporate Advisory Team in Sydney.

He brings a wealth of experience having previously acted as a partner of a boutique law firm in Sydney and a principal of a corporate legal practice in Perth.

Gavin regularly acts for listed, public and large proprietary companies.

His expertise includes corporate and commercial law with a particular focus on:

• regulated and private treaty acquisitions, divestments and restructurings;
• fundraising via equity capital markets; and
• domestic and foreign investment.

Gavin is a ‘hands-on’ lawyer who enjoys providing high quality strategic, tactical and practical advice.

Recent transactions include:

• advising on the sale of Australian Contract Mining Pty Ltd to Westgold Resources Limited (ASX: WGX)
• advising the independent directors of Universal Coal plc (ASX: UNV) on their successful takeover defence of a hostile bid by IchorCoal N.V.
• advising the independent directors of Universal Coal plc on a recommended takeover offer by Coal of Africa Limited (ASX: CZA)
• advising on the sale of Financial Choice Pty Limited to Spring FG Limited (ASX: SFG)

Modules:

• Intellectual Property

Biography:

Matthew Swinn is a partner of King & Wood Mallesons and a recognised IP litigation specialist with a wealth of experience in the manufacturing, life sciences and consumer sectors, among others. Matthew is also the Managing Partner for KWM's Dispute Resolution & Tax teams.

Matthew is well known for his patent litigation expertise, having acted in patent disputes for some of the world's largest companies. His expertise also spans the entire range of intellectual property issues including contentious trade mark, copyright, trade secrets and consumer protection/passing-off matters.

He is a member and former Chair of the Law Council of Australia’s IP Committee, a member of the Federal Court of Australia’s IP User Group and President of the Australian chapter of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI).

Professional Organisations & Memberships

• King & Wood Mallesons
• https://www.kwm.com/en/au
• https://www.kwm.com/en/au/people/matthew-swinn
• Law Institute of Victoria
• Law Council of Australia, IP Committee
• International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property – President of AIPPI Australia
• Federal Court of Australia, IP Users Group

Awards & Recognition

• Intellectual Property: Patents in Australia, Band 1 –Chambers Global 2019, 2020 and 2021
• Intellectual Property, Band 1 – Chambers and Partners 2021 (Asia Pacific)
• 2022 Lawyer of the Year – Intellectual Property Law in Melbourne, Best Lawyers
• Patent Litigation Star and Trade Mark Litigation Star, Managing Intellectual Property IP Stars 2020/21
• Gold Band - Litigation and Global Thought Leader, IAM Patent 1000: The World’s Leading Patent Professionals 2021
• Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific – Dispute Resolution Star (Intellectual Property) 2020

Professional Contact

Email: matthew.swinn@au.kwm.com

Modules:

• Cybersecurity, Data Protection & Privacy

Biography:

Tessa is a communications and content strategist with a background in privacy, information security, and regulation. Since joining elevenM, she has developed and delivered a range of education and awareness training products, content strategies and tailored specialist content for public and private sector organisations.

Tessa was publications manager and speechwriter to the Commissioners at the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner, and has managed events, campaigns, media and social media, and internal and external communications strategies. With over a decade of professional experience, Tessa is an expert at presenting technical and complex information in a practical and accessible manner.

Professional Organisation

elevenM
https://elevenm.com.au/

Memberships

IAPP

Modules:

• Succession

Biography:

Rosemary is a consultant of the firm Tindall Gask Bentley. She is a member of the Succession Law Committee of the Law Society of South Australia and of the Society of Trust & Estate Practitioners. Rosemary was admitted to practice in 2001. Since that time she has predominantly worked in the wills and estates area and for the last three years has worked solely in the area of wills, probate and estate litigation.

Modules:

• Intellectual Property

Biography:

Philippa is a Senior Associate who is qualified to practice in Australia, Canada and the UK and brings over 11 years’ worth of experience in private practice and in-house. She has recently returned from London where she worked as senior in-house lawyer for a leading international media and entertainment company, Viacom, focusing on entertainment law and licensing.

Philippa’s experience includes trade mark prosecution, strategy and enforcement, extensive contractual drafting and negotiating, and providing advice on IP rights, commercialisation, privacy law and consumer protection. She has assisted clients with large transactional matters, contractual disputes and at all stages of the litigation/dispute resolution process.

Modules:

• Intellectual Property

Biography:

Rory is a computer systems and geophysics expert and registered Australian and New Zealand patents and trade marks attorney. Rory has experience drafting, filing and prosecuting patents in Australia, New Zealand and overseas. Due to working with contentious subject matter such as software and machine learning algorithms, Rory has knowledge and extensive practice experience in subject matter eligibility across many large jurisdictions such as Europe, and the US.

Modules:

• Corporations

Biography:

Karin Ottesen began practising at the New South Wales Bar in February 1994, after working as a banking and finance solicitor with Mallesons Stephen Jacques, a major commercial law firm. While at Mallesons, Karin spent 10 months on secondment to the Australian Payments Clearing Association Limited as in-house legal counsel reporting to the Chief Executive Officer.

Karin has held the following academic positions: Lecturer/tutor in business law and corporate law (since 2007) and international business law (since 2010), part-time lecturer in legal institutions, Law Extension Committee, University of Sydney (1994-2002) and Principal Examiner in Legal Institutions, NSW Legal Practitioners Admission Board (1995-2002), lecturer coordinating "Law relating to Banking" and "Public Unit Trusts" in the MBA program conducted by the University of New England (1996).

Modules:

• Dispute Resolution

Biography:

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.

Speaking Engagements

• Law Society of NSW – Practice Management Course
• LegalWise
• LIV & Other Law Societies
• ACL – Association of Costs Lawyers – UK – spoke at their annual conference in London in 2016

Professional Organisations & Memberships

• DGT Costs Lawyers – Sydney, Brisbane and Canberra
• www.dgt.com.au
• Court Appointed Costs Assessor – Queensland Mediator
• Law Society of NSW – Ethics Committee
• QLS (QLD Law Society) – Costs Advisory Service

Professional Contact

Email: kerrie.rosati@dgt.com.au

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kerrie-rosati-5165431b/

Modules:

• Corporations

Biography:

Jen has experience in providing advice to large corporate clients, partnerships, directors and high net worth individuals and drafting relevant documents in respect of corporate and commercial issues including corporate governance, compliance with the Corporations Act and ASIC requirements, risk management, corporate restructure, board restructure, directors' duties and ongoing day-today advice on strategic commercial board level decisions.

Jen also has experience in running complex legal disputes arising from commercial developments, dissolution of companies and partnerships, directors' duties, consumer protection, allegations relating to breaches of contracts, technology and intellectual property, joint venture mining, property law, building and construction and general debt recovery.

Modules:

• Commercial

Biography:

David's principal practice area is commercial litigation. Building and construction litigation (both residential and commercial), insolvency, commercial contracts and real property (including retail and commercial lease disputes) are specialty areas of David's practice. David is an Accredited Specialist in Commercial Litigation and holds a Certificate in commercial mediation making him eligible for appointment to the NSW Law Society's Mediator's Panel.

Modules:

• Construction

Biography:

Rachel Stanton is an associate in the White & Case Project Development and Finance practice based in Sydney. 

Rachel brings extensive experience in front-end major projects and construction matters across both public and private sectors and is well versed dealing with a range of stakeholders and multidisciplinary project teams. She has played a key role in the procurement and delivery of significant infrastructure projects and her diverse portfolio, which includes transport, commercial and residential projects, underscores her versatility and deep understanding of complex project management, and ability to deliver within project budgets and timelines.  

Rachel also has experience in energy and resources projects and has worked on the project financing of renewable energy projects.

Awards and Recognition
University Medal (Faculty of Law)

Modules:

• Construction

Biography:

Kate is a Partner in White & Case’s Global Commercial Litigation Practice and is based in Sydney. 

Kate has a deep expertise across the infrastructure, property and energy sectors, advising clients across a wide range of subject matter issues. She advises on and is responsible for the management and resolution of high-value, complex commercial and project disputes in all dispute forums.  

Prior to joining White & Case in 2020, Kate was General Counsel at Lendlease Construction Australia. She brings a unique blend of commercial and legal expertise from over 20 years’ of conducting disputes in relation to some of Australia’s largest and most high-profile infrastructure, commercial, property and project developments. 

Awards
Kate has been a named individual in the independent legal directories - Legal 500, Who’s Who Legal, Doyles Guide 

Modules:

• Personal Injury NSW

Biography:

Modules:

• Family

Biography:

Kate Kensell has over 20 years of family law experience, having worked in the jurisdiction since 2004. Kate has a strong interest in complex property and parenting matters, having appeared as an Independent Children’s Lawyer for over 10 years.

Awards & Recognition

• Doyle’s Guide Recommended Parenting Lawyers 2024