Modules:

• Personal Injury VIC

Biography:

Partner at Arnold Dallas McPherson, central Victoria’s largest Plaintiff personal injuries firm, since 1994; Accredited Specialist in Personal Injury Law in Victoria since 1997; former member of LIV Personal Injury Specialisation Committee; State Committee Member of the Victorian Branch of the Australian Lawyers’ Alliance since inception.

Modules:

• Personal Injury NSW

Biography:

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.

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:

• Intellectual Property

Biography:

Following her admission to practice in 2009, Madeleine worked with a leading mid-tier commercial law firm in Adelaide after commencing as a cadet there in 2008. After practising broadly across a range of commercial areas, Madeleine's focus was increasingly drawn to intellectual property and licensing matters. Madeleine established her own practice, before joining Solubility in April 2014, where she was promoted to Senior Associate in May 2016.

Since joining Solubility, Madeleine has developed a strong client base, and her clients value her responsiveness and her thorough yet pragmatic style of practice. Her practice involves advising in relation to, and preparing appropriate agreements and documentation for, licensing transactions, manufacturing, supply and distribution arrangements, capital investment, directors' duties and liabilities, and copyright, trade marks and all other aspects of intellectual property. Madeleine advises clients across a range of industries, including the university sector, agriculture, consumer goods, medical devices, therapeutic goods, life sciences and IT, and she also takes pleasure in providing pro bono legal assistance to certain charities and foundations in the arts sector, including through Arts Law Centre of Australia.

Modules:

• Property

Biography:

Ilija was involved in general legal practice for approximately 20 years. He then ventured into legal publishing and writing, as well as part-time lecturing in Law units at business schools run by Curtin University of Technology, La Trobe University and Central Queensland University before joining Macquarie Law School.

Ilija is currently the unit convenor and lecturer in contracts and evidence at Macquarie Law School. He also tutors in property law. His research interests include the law and society, the law of church and state, contract law and theory, the law of work, dispute resolution and legal history.

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.

Biography:

Sarah has been involved in a wide range of workplace matters.This includes a strong interest in assisting employers with the management of their workers compensation claims and as well in relation to liability insurance claims.

Modules:

• Personal Injury NSW

Biography:

Richard commenced legal practice in Melbourne and worked as a solicitor in taxation law, personal injuries litigation and commercial litigation for Arthur Anderson and Co, Slater and Gordon and Blake Dawson Waldron before joining the New South Wales Bar.

He has been practicing as barrister in New South Wales since 2000 in many practice areas including medical negligence and other professional indemnity claims, dust diseases, motor vehicle and public liability personal injuries claims, commercial insurance disputes, building and construction disputes and coronial inquests.

Richard is a member of the Medico Legal Society of NSW and the Australian Lawyers Alliance and a member of the Sydney/ACT AFL disciplinary tribunal.

Modules:

• Cybersecurity, Data Protection & Privacy

Biography:

Kwok specialises in advising on complex and strategic contracts in the technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) sectors. Kwok has significant experience in advising on a broad range of TMT contracts and issues, including outsourcing agreements, master service agreements, software development agreements, licensing and maintenance contracts, cloud computing arrangements, network rollout, interconnect, telecommunications and wholesale broadband agreements. Kwok provides advice on emerging technologies such as drones, automation, artificial intelligence, non-fungible tokens and edge computing. In particular, Kwok was part of the expert reference group advising the Australian Human Rights Commissioner on their Human Rights and Technology projects, and continues to advise other clients on the legal and ethical use of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence.

Professional Organisation

Home | Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer | Global law firm

Professional Contact

+61 2 9225 5569
Kwok.Tang@hsf.com
LinkedIn

Modules:

• Competition

Biography:

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.

Modules:

• Commercial

Biography:

Gavin has wide ranging experience in all manner of commercial litigation including debt recovery, banking/finance litigation and securities enforcement, insolvency, contractual disputes, intellectual property and insurance including professional indemnity. Gavin regularly manages cases arising out of secured loans, supply, manufacturing and construction contracts, property acquisitions, sale of business, partnerships and corporate/personal insolvency.

Modules:

• Competition

Biography:

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.

Modules:

• Employment

Biography:

Ruth Hart joined Corrs' Workplace Relations Group in July 2006 and has become a key member of the Group in providing advice and assistance across a range of workplace relations matters. This includes in-house management of issues, such as enterprise bargaining, through various secondments to clients in the private and public sectors. Ruth has expertise in dispute management, employment, occupational health and safety, discrimination and privacy matters. In particular, she advises on compliance with specific laws regulating the construction industry. She is also an experienced litigator, regularly representing clients in civil penalty proceedings. Ruth has also been involved in drafting and reviewing of regulations and Compliance Codes.

Ruth was an integral member of the team of lawyers assisting the 2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission. She preformed the role of Project Manager for the team and was also responsible for managing the interaction between key stakeholders.

Modules:

• Personal Property Securities

Biography:

Renee has extensive experience in banking and finance, specialising in corporate and property finance, portfolio acquisitions and asset finance (with recognised specialisations in aircraft, rolling stock and yellow goods).

She represented Allens in making submissions to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee on the Personal Property Securities Act – recent reforms that have significantly changed banking and commercial law in Australia. She now regularly advises corporate and financial institution clients about how the reform impacts their business and designing processes to address the changes. Renee has been recognised as a leader in her field by Chambers Asia-Pacific 2015.

Modules:

• Personal Property Securities

Biography:

David is a member of Allens' Banking and Finance practice group. He has recently acted on a number of project finance and syndicated loan transactions. David is well regarded for his expertise in personal property securities law, in particular he assists clients in scoping and implementing PPSA compliance processes and reviews.

Modules:

• Construction

Biography:

Edwina is a senior associate in the White & Case Project Development and Finance practice based in Melbourne. 

Edwina advises clients on the development, construction and maintenance of major infrastructure and energy projects in Australia, with a particular focus on public-private partnerships and other privately financed arrangements. 

Memberships
Law institute of Victoria 

Modules:

• Personal Injury VIC

Biography:

Stuart commenced with Ashurst (formerly Blake Dawson Waldron) in 2000 in their Insurance team. He moved to Gadens in 2004, later that year being made partner of their Corporate Risk and Insurance team.

He has in that time practised solely in WorkCover and Public liability personal injury litigation -managing a quarter of Victorias self-insured workcover corporates and some well-known large national liability insurers.

Modules:

• Personal Injury QLD

Biography:

Jillian is a Queensland Law Society Accredited Specialist in Personal Injuries Law and has advocated solely for those for whom access to justice may not otherwise be possible since beginning her legal career over 8 years ago.

She is passionate about making a difference in the lives of others by assisting them when they have been wronged. She is a member of the Queensland Law Society, Australian Lawyers for Human Rights, Australian Lawyers Alliance and Maurice Blackburn's Women's Law Section.