Paul has more than 25 years' experience in all aspects of property, town planning and environment law—acting for developers, government and statutory authorities, landlords, fund managers and investors. He has a wealth of experience in major mixed use and community strata title projects. Paul has acted for some of Australia's largest developers in landmark Queensland projects. He advises on all aspects of a project, from due diligence, site acquisition, to development, titling, body corporate structuring, and project sales.
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Edwina is a corporate and commercial lawyer specialising in private and public mergers and acquisitions (M&A), corporate governance and company secretarial matters.
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Christopher specialises in public and administrative law. He regularly appears as a solicitor advocate in the Federal Court and Federal Circuit Court and Family Court in judicial review proceedings and the Administrative Appeals Tribunal in merits review proceedings.
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Emanuel is a senior commercial lawyer who specialises in property development and leasing matters. His extensive knowledge on all aspects of complex property, finance, environmental, commercial, corporate, leasing and telecommunications matters is highly valued by his clients.
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Heather is an experienced defence lawyer, with a focus on personal injury claims (including workers’ compensation claims). In addition to Heather’s tort law and statutory interpretation expertise, she worked in the London Treasury Solicitor’s Office in 2006 and 2007, defending a large variety of claims.
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Matthew is an experienced banking and finance lawyer across a range of industries and the full range of debt products, with a focus on business banking, real estate finance, leveraged and acquisition finance, food & beverage, construction, project and infrastructure, and asset finance. Matthew also has expertise in cross-border club and syndicated financings as well as security and restructuring issues, including intercreditor and subordination arrangements.
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For more than 20 years, Joanne has managed an extensive insurance litigation practice in the mining industry. She frequently appears before relevant Commissions and Courts and assists large self-insured companies.
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Marie specialises in the defence of claims for professional negligence, coronial inquiries, professional conduct complaints and disciplinary proceedings and criminal matters on behalf of medical indemnity insurers, medical practitioners, nurses and healthcare facilities.
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Rossana regularly advises and represents the public and private sector on work health and safety (WHS) issues, compliance and WorkCover prosecutions. Having worked as the principal lawyer in the prosecutions branch of WorkCover NSW, Rossana understands what this regulator is striving to achieve and how to engage with it.
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​Koreen is an experienced property lawyer, with a background in conveyancing and planning law. She specialises in property acquisitions and disposals for a range of clients, leasing matters, strata titling and property disputes.
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Adam is an experienced commercial, technology and privacy lawyer.
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Belinda has more than 10 years’ experience in commercial dispute resolution, including construction disputes. She is quick to identify risks and opportunities and seeks the best outcomes for her clients by considering both legal arguments and commercial realities.
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Jess is an employment and industrial relations lawyer with a particular focus on providing plain language advice to clients and working with them to find practical and commercial solutions to workplace issues.
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Eleanor is a disputes and investigations lawyer with experience in the areas of commercial and financial services litigation, white collar defence and investigations, and financial regulatory and compliance.
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Shannon is the National Service Line Leader of the Intellectual Property & Technology Team. She has more than 20 years' experience representing clients in patent, trade mark, copyright and design disputes in the Federal Court and litigation arising from misleading and deceptive conduct and protecting trade secrets. Shannon was the 2017 Lawyers Weekly Women in Law Awards winner and named Intellectual Property Partner of the Year at the 2016 Lawyers Weekly Partner of the Year Awards. She was a finalist for the same award again in 2017. Shannon was awarded NSW Patent Litigator of the Year at the 2016 Intellectual Property Awards hosted by Acquisition International and was also recognised as an IP Leading Lawyer by AsiaLaw in 2015 and 2014. In 2015 our IP team was nominated by Lawyers Weekly as "Best IP Team".
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Scott joined the Corporate & Commercial team as a partner in October 2023. Scott has been admitted to practice for over 30 years and is a specialist corporate and commercial lawyer, having worked in senior roles at a number of firms throughout new South Wales. He is based in Newcastle.
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Darren specialises in advising on, documenting and negotiating construction and infrastructure projects in the commercial, university, mining, maritime, water industry, retail and residential sectors.
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Bernadette is a highly experienced and respected Commonwealth administrative law advocate who has represented Commonwealth agencies in thousands of merits review, judicial review and statutory interpretation matters for more than three decades.
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