Modules:

• Immigration

Biography:

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.

Biography:

Tracy brings with him over 35 years of experience as a workplace lawyer. He has worked at a number of national firms including Mallesons Stephen Jacques, Blake Dawson Waldron (as consultant counsel), and Corrs Chambers Westgarth (as in-house counsel). He was a partner at Parker & Parker (which subsequently merged with Freehill Hollingdale & Page), and has also practised as a barrister at Francis Burt Chambers, and as a sole practitioner. He has particular interest in statutory construction and the contract of employment.

Contact

tracy.caspersz@lexisnexis.com.au

Biography:

Shaun has over 7 years practice experience in property, government, and construction law in Australia and New Zealand, including at Russell Kennedy (Australia) and Bell Gully (New Zealand).

Shaun has extensive experience across a range of property matters including acquisitions and disposals, contract drafting and negotiation, property development and subdivisions, leasing and licensing, and navigating various property interests like easements, covenants, and encumbrances. He also has experience in construction contract drafting and negotiations, strategic advice, and working with Victorian State government departments and bodies, councils, water corporations and other authorities on their property and related requirements.

Shaun is a commentator for LexisNexis on property and related topics, most recently writing Be Prepared for Significant Changes to Queensland Property Law | Property Law Act 2023 (QLD) and preparing the associated materials.

Contact

shaun.burmester@lexisnexis.com.au

Biography:

James has 16 years experience advising clients on their commercial development contracts, contracts of sale, and leases. James' experience includes:

• Accredited specialist in property law by the Law Society of NSW
• Acting for the Charter Hall/CBus Property joint venture the development of 171 Collins St, the first premium office constructed in Melbourne in the last 20 years, and the new BHP Billiton headquarters.
• Acting for Charter Hall in relation to the development of the commercial office building at 685 LaTrobe Street Melbourne.
• Acting for Lend Lease in relation to a strata office development in Collins Street.
• Acting for Grocon on the development of the Carlton Brewery apartments.
• Acting for the developer of the 27 Little Collins Street apartments, and the new Sheraton Hotel.
• Acting for Industry Superannuation Property Trust in relation to the development and leasing of 740 Bourke Street, Docklands, 100 St Georges Terrace, Perth, and 447 Collins Street, Melbourne.
• Acting for Metcash on a range of its Victorian property projects.
• Acting for AMP as landlord in relation to its leasing of 600 Bourke Street, Melbourne and 222 Exhibition Street, Melbourne.
• Acting for GPT in relation to its leasing of 530 Collins Street, Melbourne and Melbourne Central Tower.
• Generally, acting for both tenants and landlords of many industrial, commercial and retail premises.
• Acting for institutional investors and listed property trusts in the purchase of major office buildings including 565 and 569 Collins Street, 222 Exhibition Street, 200 Queen Street, 11 Exhibition Street, 436 St Kilda Road, and the Telstra Office portfolio, valued at over $570 million
• Acting for AMP in relation to the purchase of Ocean Keys Shopping Centre ( a major regional centre in WA) from Coles Myer.
• Acting for the institutional investors and listed property trusts in the sale of buildings including 500 Collins Street, 133 Collins Street, 580 St Kilda Road.
• Acting for Brambles in relation to the purchase and leasing of industrial land throughout Australia including all environmental and contamination aspects.

Modules:

• Succession

Biography:

Since admission in 1992, Melissa has practised almost exclusively in the field of wills and estates, and has a particular interest in estate litigation. Melissa assists the practical legal training courses run by the Law Society of South Australia and Flinders University by lecturing, facilitating workshops, problem setting and marking.

Melissa's memberships and external appointments include; The Law Society of South Australia (Probate Committee), Director of a Private Prescribed Fund, Board Member, Muscular Dystrophy Association SA, Trustee and Muscular Dystrophy Research Foundation.

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

Modules:

• Property

Biography:

Simon is the legal practitioner director at LaBlack Lawyers Pty Ltd and one of 29 accredited property law specialists in Queensland, having gained his specialist accreditation in 2017.

Simon assists both organisations and individuals in all Queensland property law related matters including:

• real property disputes;
• commercial, retail & residential lease transactions and disputes;
• subdivisions and development projects and associated acquisitions and disposals of real property;
• compulsory acquisition compensation claims and disputes.

Simon also regularly assists other legal professionals and law firms in the property law space as a specialist consultant and acts as a Court-appointed statutory trustee for sale.

Awards & Recognition

Accredited Specialist – Property Law (Qld)
2019 – finalist for Queensland Law Society President’s Medal – QLS

Memberships

Member – QLS Property Law Specialist Accreditation Advisory Committee

Speaking Engagements

• 2023 Property Law Conference - QLS
• 2023 Conveyancing Conference - Legalwise
• 2023 Encroachment & Retaining Walls Webinar - The Education Network
• 2023 Sunshine Coast Law Association CPD Event - Sunshine Coast Law Association
• 2022 Intro to Conveyancing Course - QLS
• 2022 Property Law Conference - QLS
• 2022 Ipswich District Law Association CPD Day - IDLA
• 2022 Conveyancing Conference - Legalwise
• 2022 Sunshine Coast Law Association CPD Event - Sunshine Coast Law Association
• 2021 Practical Guide to Conveyancing Issues – Legalwise
• 2021 Expert Session - Property Developer Network
• 2020 Conveyancing Conference - Legalwise
• 2019 Property Law Masterclass - QLS
• 2019 Property Law Conference - QLS
• 2019 Annual Symposium - QLS
• 2019 Ipswich District Law Association CPD Day - IDLA

Professional Organisation

LaBlack Lawyers Pty Ltd
www.lablacklawyers.com.au

Modules:

• Succession

Biography:

Biography:

Brendan advises on IT transactions of all types and sizes, including large scale, complex outsourcing and integration projects, cloud-based offerings, data analytics and software licensing and development agreements. He also assists on IP protection and commercialisation, digital marketing and content, social media, sponsorships, privacy and cyber security.

Brendan has particular expertise providing strategic cyber and data resilience advice, and has current experience advising clients on their journey towards GDPR compliance.

Publications and Editorial Contacts

• LexisNexis - Practical Guidance Cybersecurity, Data Protection & Privacy (Australian chapters).
• Co-authored Australian Chapter of World Online Business Law.
• The Censorship of Misogynistic Rap Music—A Consideration of Gender-Based Harms and Free Speech, 26 VICT. U. WELLINGTON L. REV. 531 (1996).

Awards & Recognition

• Legal 500 Asia Pacific, 2018, recommended for IT & Telecommunications.
• Victoria University of Wellington annual award for best legal writing.
• Selected from Australia & New Zealand to attend the "Building Global Lawyers" conference at IBM HQ in Armonk (New York State).
• Appointed global co-lead of an IBM initiative to improve customer experience.
• British Telecom Recognition Award for work on BT’s purchase of NSB Retail Systems plc’s UK operations and exclusive distribution agreement.
• British Telecom Recognition Award for work on BT Fusion (world’s first hybrid mobile and landline phone).

Speaking Engagements

• Engaged by Commvault to present at their “Connections Live” customer events in Sydney and Melbourne on cyber security and privacy developments (Australian mandatory date breach notification and the GDPR).
• Interviewed by Bloomberg BNA for ‘Companies to Face Mandatory Data Breach Notice Down Under’ article
• Interviewed by Sydney radio station regarding mandatory date breach notification.

Professional Organisations & Memberships

• Law Society of New South Wales

Professional Contact

T: +61 2 9291 6121

E: brendan.tomlinson@maddocks.com.au

Modules:

• Property

Biography:

Paula was admitted in 2009 and has spent her whole career at Penmans Lawyers, the second oldest law firm on the Central Coast of NSW and a firm of which she has been a principal since 2012.

She has practised in various areas, including litigation and succession but ultimately found her niche in property, commercial and business law, the areas in which she now exclusively practices.

Paula has a love for writing and history, a passion that ties beautifully with property law. She is a strong proponent of plain English drafting and believes that legal documents should be easy for non-lawyers to understand.

Paula is an Accredited Specialist in property law.

Awards & Recognition

Accredited Specialist (Property Law)

Speaking Engagements

President, Central Coast Regional Law Society

Professional Organisation

Penmans Lawyers
Paula Roberts | LinkedIn

Professional Contact

Email: roberts@penmans.com.au

Biography:

Trish Hyde is the current CEO of the Australian Corporate Lawyers Association, having joined the association in 2010.

Trish has over 15 years corporate leadership, communications and marketing experience across FMCG, telcos, aviation, retail, infrastructure, financial services, education and health.

She has worked in some of the most issues rich and stakeholder diverse environments and ACLA is her second CEO not-for-profit role.

Trish has held three Directorships, has a Masters in Corporate Leadership, and is a Fellow of the Australian Marketing Institute.

Modules:

• Criminal

Biography:

Te’res is an accredited specialist in Children’s Law. She graduated from the University of Wollongong in 2001. In 2002 she joined Legal Aid NSW and soon after the Children’s Legal Service division of Legal Aid NSW. Te'res was appointed as a Magistrate to the Local Court of New South Wales in 2022.

Modules:

• Succession

Biography:

Ken is the Founder and principal of Wills & Probate Victoria. Ken was admitted to practice as a legal practitioner in 1982. Since admission, Ken has always practiced in the areas of wills and estates.

Ken has been accredited by the Law Institute of Victoria as a wills and estate specialist since 1993 - the first year that accreditation commenced. He is the co-author of the Wills, Probate and Administration Service, Victoria, a two-volume publication which is a leading loose-leaf services dealing with wills and estates for legal practitioners in Victoria.

Ken is also the co-author of Succession Law for LexisNexis. He founded the Wills & Probate Bulletin in 1996 and was the editor of that publication from 1996 to 2008. He was also co-convenor of the Wills & Probate Conference from 1995 to 2008.

Since 1997, Ken has conducted regular workshops for law graduates in the areas of wills and estates for Leo Cussen.

Biography:

Luba has extensive practice experience at leading national firms in Australia, including Baker Mckenzie and Mallesons Stephen Jacques (now King & Wood Mallesons) Luba has a wide range of experience across both contentious and advisory work for large multinationals and blue-chip Australian corporates.

Luba has been involved in complex commercial litigation, regulatory compliance and IP rights enforcement for clients in industry sectors including FMCG, media, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals and luxury goods. She is admitted in the Supreme Court of New South Wales and the High Court of Australia.

Luba is a regular commentator for LexisNexis on corporations and consumer law issues. Some recent examples include:

• Article: Beware of unfair contract terms
• Article: High Court rejects Mayfair and Mawhinney special leave applications - 5 Key takeaways and implications for future financial services enforcement
• Webinar: Crisis Scenario Planning with LexisNexis Practical Guidance
• Article: When the price is not right: ACCC commences proceedings against Airbnb for alleged misleading and deceptive representations on accommodation pricing
• Article: viagogo appeal is a no-go: Full Federal Court upholds liability for misleading representations and $7M penalty for online ticket reselling platform
• Article: Navigating the RAT maze: what businesses should know about selling rapid antigen tests

Contact

luba.poukchanski@lexisnexis.com.au

Modules:

• Cybersecurity, Data Protection & Privacy

Biography:

Nick has worked in financial services since 1996, beginning in insurance with Canada Life before moving to asset management with Morgan Grenfell in London. Nick moved to Australia in 2002 working for Deutsche Asset Management as a portfolio manager, eventually becoming Director, Head of Australian Fixed Income with Aberdeen Standard Investments in Sydney. After 5 years in that role, Nick spent a year with Gresham Partners as Managing Director, Head of Corporate Credit, seeking to start a direct lending business within Gresham. Nick co-founded Bishop & Fang Capital Advisory in 2020, and NotCentralised, a venture studio, in  2022.

Nick focuses on capital structuring and capital raising across instruments and business sizes, in emerging technology and Web3. Nick has a wide network of contacts across institutional and high-net-worth investors and consultants.

Nick enjoys life near the ocean on Sydney’s Northern Beaches, with his wife, two beautiful daughters and two dogs.

Professional Organisations & Memberships

• Notcentralised
• https://www.notcentralised.com/
• Chartered Financial Analyst - The CFA Institute

Professional Contact

Email: bish@notcentralised.com

Phone: +61 455 438 881

Modules:

• Personal Injury VIC

Biography:

Since coming to the Bar Arushan has worked mainly in the occupational health and safety, administrative law and personal injuries fields. Within the personal injuries arena he particularly practises in the areas of medical law, dust diseases and general liability.

Prior to signing the Bar Roll Arushan practised as an employee lawyer for 7 years. He worked primarily in civil litigation dealing with insurance, personal injuries and commercial matters.

He also worked as the principal solicitor to the public service commission of Vanuatu as part of the Australian Government’s youth ambassadors’ programme. In his role with the commission Arushan provided administrative law advice and assisted with legislative drafting. He returned to Australia in 2001 and represented one of the parties involved in the Cole Royal Commission into the building and construction industry.

He has represented numerous statutory bodies including the Medical Panels Victoria, Nurses Board of Victoria, the Victims of Crimes Assistance Tribunal and the Legal Aid Commission. He also has an established practice representing people before their professional disciplinary bodies and VCAT.

Arushan completed the National Institute of Trial Advocates (NITA) Trial Skills Program at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, USA in 2011.

He has appeared in his stated practice areas in all jurisdictions.

Modules:

• Banking & Finance

Biography:

Stuart is a senior commercial lawyer with more than 27 years’ of commercial legal experience including 13 years as a partner at Allens Arthur Robinson and Maddocks, and four years working in London at a senior level at Slaughter & May and White & Case.

For the past 17 years Stuart has specialised in banking and finance work in the United Kingdom and Australia.

He has a strong track record advising top ASX 100 companies, mid-cap and private companies, property developers and investors, lenders, government entities and multilateral institutions on complex financing transactions and related projects and commercial matters.

Stuart's expertise has been recognised for banking and finance in 2015/16 in Legal 500 and Doyle’s Guide to the Australian Legal Profession.

Modules:

• Competition

Biography:

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.