Modules:

• Banking & Finance

Biography:

With 20 years’ experience as a banking, finance and projects lawyer, Daniel works across property, public–private partnerships (PPPs) and infrastructure projects; wholesale fund and portfolio financing; and corporate/real estate investment trust and acquisition finance, treasury and debt capital market transactions, and complex debt reconstructions.

Daniel is noted in Chambers Global/Asia Pacific as having a Band 1 rating, and to be an “excellent practitioner” who “attracts glowing praise for his collaborative approach and great negotiating skills”, and "extremely good; measured and great at solving technical and practical problems." (Chambers Asia Pacific 2015). Daniel is also noted in International Who’s Who of Banking Lawyers (2014), Who’s Who Intercontinental Edition Banking World Rankings Law (2015-16), Who’s Who Legal: Banking (2015-17), International Financial Law Review 1000 (2008-16 editions) and ExpertGuides (2015-17) as a world leading Banking lawyer, Asialaw Leading Lawyers (2013-17) for Banking and Best Lawyers International: Australia Peer Review (2010-16 editions) for Project Finance and Development, Banking and Finance, and Real Property - Finance.

Modules:

• Dispute Resolution

Biography:

Craig has over 20 years of experience in commercial litigation and class actions. His impressive track record includes landmark judgments like the Worley shareholder class action and settlements in several class actions including the OZ Minerals and Macmahon shareholder class actions and toxic foam contamination class actions against the federal government.

Craig now leads a team pursuing claims against major corporations, financial institutions, and governments, including A2 Milk, AMP Insurance, Nuix, and the NSW and WA governments in relation to First Nations child removals. His previous leadership roles at ASIC and prominent law firms like ACA Lawyers and Allygroup Legal Consultants further solidify his expertise in securing compensation for those impacted by corporate misconduct.

Professional Organisation

Shine Lawyers

Modules:

• Family

Biography:

Lois Clifford is a director of Dobinson Davey Clifford Simpson and has over 25 years experience practising as a lawyer with the last 20 years focusing on family law. She has been an Accredited Family Law Specialist with the NSW Law Society since 1994.

Currently Lois serves on the Family Law and Professional Complaints Committees of the ACT Law Society. She is also member of the Family Law Section of the Law Council, and the Women Lawyers Association of the ACT, as well as a panel lawyer with the Women's Legal Centre. Lois has alspresented papers at specialist family law conferences.

Modules:

• Construction

Biography:

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.

Memberships
Society of Construction Law  
Women in Property 

Speaking Engagements
Society of Construction Law – National Conference  
University of Melbourne, Construction Law Masters  

Biography:

Dale Pinto is currently a Professor of Taxation Law and Head of the Taxation Department of the Curtin Law School at Curtin University. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law (FAAL), a member of the Divisional Council of CPA Australia (WA Division) and Fellow of CPA Australia (FCPA), and is also a Chartered Tax Adviser and Honorary Life Member of the Tax Institute CTA (Life).

Dale is the author/co-author of numerous books, refereed articles and national and international conference papers, and is on the editorial board of a number of peer-reviewed journals as well as being the Editor-in-Chief of several refereed journals.

Dale is the Chair of the Tax Institute’s National Education Quality Assurance Board and is a member of TEQSA’s Expert Panel in Accounting and Taxation. Dale served as an inaugural member of the National Tax Practitioners Board and is a current member of the Board of Taxation’s Advisory Panel and the ATO’s Tax Technical Panel (Superannuation) as well as CCIWA’s Government and Fiscal Policy Forum.

Modules:

• Family

Biography:

Justin has specialised in family law since 1987 and has an excellent understanding of the family law system having been employed as the Senior Registrar of the Parramatta Registry of the Family Court, then as Regional Registrar of the Court with responsibility for NSW and the ACT. His past and current legal experience includes very complex family law cases, including matters that comprise offshore assets and children's issues.

Modules:

• Competition

Biography:

Tamara specialises in regulatory investigations, litigation, and commercial advice in relation to Part IV of the Competition and Consumer Act and the Australian Consumer Law. She regularly helps clients navigate major litigation, advises on commercial strategy, and supports clients through complex regulatory investigations by the ACCC and other regulators in the Asia Pacific region. Tamara has acted in cartel and consumer law matters involving regulators and class action litigants, balancing clients’ commercial objectives against the technical legal landscape and risk matrix.

Modules:

• Construction

Biography:

Tom is a Barrister at Green’s Square Chambers. He has particular experience in dealing with document-heavy litigation with a substantial technical component, and with the cross-examination of technical experts.

Tom is also experienced at representing clients in mediations and has been asked to act as a mediator himself on a number of occasions.

Admitted as a solicitor in UK 1986 

Admitted as a solicitor in NSW 1992.

Practicing as a barrister in NSW since 1998. 

Modules:

• Dispute Resolution

Biography:

William has 6 years of experience working in civil litigation. His primary practice is in the defence of tort claims for private insurers, largely in the worker’s compensation space, he also frequently advises on various matters for employers. William appears frequently in the ACT Supreme Court and ACT Magistrates Court.

Membership

• Law Society of the ACT

Biography:

Rowena McNally completed her Bachelor of Laws in Queensland in 1988 and is admitted as a solicitor in Queensland. She has practised as a lawyer with a major law firm and as an in-house lawyer in both the corporate and semi-government sectors.

Rowena has experience in managing both legal and non-legal organisational sections. Her expertise is in the area of directors' and officers' duties and corporate governance. She is an experienced company secretary and company director. Rowena is a past Queensland and National President of ACLA. She is the former Sugar Industry Commissioner and has served as a director of a number of companies including the Mount Isa and Gladstone and Burnett Water Boards, Queensland Law Society, Cerebral Palsy Queensland and Cerebral Palsy Australia, Catholic Health Australia, WorkCover Queensland and the Institute of Arbitrators & Mediators Australia.

Modules:

• In-House Advisor

Biography:

Since 2011, Mark has worked as an in-house counsel at Computershare Limited, which is a global market leader in share registration, transfer agency, employee equity plans, stakeholder communications and related services.  In 2019, he was appointed general counsel of Computershare’s Australian and New Zealand (ANZ) legal team and, more recently, has assumed the role of Computershare’s General Counsel for AsiaPac. Mark is responsible for providing strategic legal advice across all areas of Computershare’s business units in the Asia-Pacific region and is a member of Computershare’s Global Legal Leadership team and regional executive team in ANZ.  His other key responsibilities include: developing legal strategy to support the delivery of corporate, regulatory and business unit objectives across the region, overseeing critical contract negotiations and acting as company secretary for all Australian based subsidiaries of the Computershare group. Before joining Computershare, Mark worked for ANZ Bank as a corporate lawyer in the bank’s retail products division. He started his career at Blake Dawson Waldron (now Ashurst) as a litigator, working on one of Australia’s largest and longest-running disputes, the Bell Group Litigation.

Awards & Recognition

• Legal 500 GC Powerlist: Australia 2023

Professional Organisation

• Computershare Limited

Biography:

Kiren completed her law degree and Corporate and Commercial LLM in the UK. Since coming to Australia she has further completed the Diploma in Law and Practical Legal Training in Australia.

Kiren has worked in large corporate international firms in both the UK and Australia as well as trustee companies and multidisciplinary firms in Australia.

Kiren has worked on general commercial matters and has gained the most experience working in succession law, having worked predominantly in wills and estates, and in particular estate planning, trusts, wills, powers of attorney, estate administration and probate, VCAT actions, superannuation, and aged care. Kiren has gained experience in working in succession matters across multiple jurisdictions in Australia.

Contact

kiren.chitkara@lexisnexis.com.au

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

Biography:

Vanya is a very experienced general property lawyer and has acted in a wide variety of matters involving property ownership, property development and the creation of interests in land. Prior to joining Holding Redlich, Vanya worked with a national legal firm and acted for significant energy, mining and local government clients in relation to property matters.

Modules:

• Competition

Biography:

Charlotte is a lawyer specialising in competition and consumer law investigations and litigation. She has worked on a number of litigious matters for private sector, public sector and pro-bono clients. Charlotte’s work spans private competition proceedings, regulatory investigations, class actions, consumer law, and discreet contractual disputes.

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:

• Commercial

Biography:

Alexandra is a corporate lawyer with extensive corporate and commercial on-the-ground business experience, bringing a pragmatic and commercial approach to legal problems and finding effective solutions.

Alexandra fosters collaborative partnerships with clients to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes. Her relationship-centric approach allows her to grasp clients’ immediate and long-term objectives, enabling her to deliver strategic and proactive commercial and legal solutions.

Alexandra’s expertise encompasses a wide range of areas, including general corporate advisory, business restructures, M&A, IPOs, shareholder disputes, partnership disputes, debt disputes, employment and commercial contracting. With a diverse background across various industries, Alexandra has advised clients in sectors including resources, engineering, infrastructure and construction, manufacturing, logistics, travel and tourism.

Alexandra is committed to community engagement and has helped set up not-for-profit entities to enable them to continue philanthropic ventures, helped NFPs obtain charity and DGR status and worked with NFPs and social enterprises to deliver strategic and innovative commercial business solutions.

Modules:

• Immigration

Biography:

Teresa is a Solicitor and has practiced exclusively in the field of immigration law since 1998. She is the Co-Managing Partner of Fragomen’s Australia and New Zealand Practices.

Teresa has particular experience in advising international and national companies across a range of industries on immigration and visa program usage, obligations and management, compliance and international mobility. She has assisted clients with audits and compliance issues with the Department of Immigration and sits on Fragomen's Global Compliance Committee. She has provided specific advice and advice on immigration work agreements, including with respect to the recruitment of overseas workers for large scale projects.

Teresa is a member of the Migration Advice Industry Advisory Group, a government-formed and -nominated group that provides strategic advice to the Australian government regarding the migration industry and potential reforms to the legislative framework governing the industry.

Teresa has significant experience in assisting business people and high net worth individuals in visa options to enable them to settle in Australia for the purposes of establishing a business or investing in Australia.