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Alinta Briggs
Senior Associate
t: +61 2 9373 3589+61 2 9373 3589
o: Sydney
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Alinta primarily focuses on property development projects and property finance transactions. She is known for her commercial acumen as well as being able to close deals quickly and within budget. She is an efficient negotiator with a pleasant demeanour, well-liked by clients and fellow professionals who find her easy to deal with.
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Cormac Burke
Senior Associate
t: +61 2 9260 2837+61 2 9260 2837
o: Sydney
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Cormac provides regulatory and administrative law advice and representation to Commonwealth departments and agencies. His work often involves complex advice on regulatory processes and decision-making, compliance and issues of statutory interpretation. Cormac also conducts solicitor advocacy in the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, the Federal Circuit and Family Court and Federal Court.
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Seamus Burke
Partner
t: +61 2 4924 7607+61 2 4924 7607
m: +61 412 262 722+61 412 262 722
o: Newcastle
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Seamus likes being a workplace lawyer, which is fortunate given that he’s been one since 1996. Since that time, he’s worked on all aspects of the employment relationship, for employer clients. He’s passionate about the power of communication and always adopts a pragmatic, reasonable and value driven approach.
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Matthieu Byrnes
Senior Associate
t: +61 2 4924 7270+61 2 4924 7270
m: +61 407 563 656+61 407 563 656
o: Melbourne
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Matthieu is a construction lawyer with experience acting for principals, contractors and subcontractors in contentious and non-contentious matters.
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Suzy Cairney
Partner
t: +61 7 3016 5009+61 7 3016 5009
o: Brisbane
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With over 25 years’ experience in Australia and overseas, Suzy is a skilful major projects lawyer. She was born in Scotland, and after a few years travelling the world, she now calls Queensland home. Suzy is a recognised Legal Influencer for Infrastructure – Australasia (Lexology Content Marketing Awards for Q1 2019). She also serves on the Board of Professional Engineers Queensland, the Board of the Infrastructure Association of Queensland (and past Deputy Chair) and the Queensland Committee of Redkite.
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Alex Caldwell
Special Counsel
t: +61 2 4924 7230+61 2 4924 7230
o: Newcastle
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Alex is a property lawyer with a primary focus on property development and work in the mining and resources and agribusiness sectors.
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Max Calligeros
Senior Associate
t: +61 8 8415 9850+61 8 8415 9850
o: Adelaide
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Max specialises in state-based workers’ compensation litigation, advising both registered agents and self-insured clients. Max has extensive experience appearing before the South Australian Employment Tribunal.
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Liz Cameron
Senior Associate
t: +61 2 6263 6372+61 2 6263 6372
o: Canberra
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Liz is an administrative lawyer who focuses on Commonwealth compensation and administrative law. She also has an interest in work health and safety (WHS) law. She advises clients on a range of issues and represents clients in litigated proceedings before the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.
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Malcolm Cameron
National Practice Group Leader
t: +61 2 9373 1485+61 2 9373 1485
m: +61 417 240 076+61 417 240 076
o: Sydney
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Malcolm has particular experience in class actions, supplemented by specialist expertise in insurance, including providing coverage advice to insurers as well as acting to defend their insureds. He has an outstanding track record of achieving positive outcomes for clients by resolving their disputes in a timely and cost-effective fashion without litigation where possible, and by litigating to successful conclusions where necessary. His clients expect and receive proactive and early advice which focuses on setting a clear resolution strategy. His ability to get to the heart of a matter—regardless of complexity—quickly and efficiently, is one of his key strengths.
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Chris Campbell
Special Counsel
t: +61 2 9260 2423+61 2 9260 2423
o: Sydney
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Chris is a Planning, Environment and Local Government lawyer who works in our Sydney office. He advises and acts for clients in planning and environment matters, particularly in the Land and Environment Court and also advises clients on a wide range of matters concerning development and local government.
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Molly Campbell
Senior Associate
t: +61 2 6263 6337+61 2 6263 6337
o: Canberra
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Molly is an experienced administrative law practitioner, who specialises in Information Law (Information Release, Privacy and Freedom of Information (FOI)).
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Steven Canton
Special Counsel
t: +61 2 9260 2739+61 2 9260 2739
o: Sydney
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Steven specialises in professional indemnity matters with an expertise in health law and brokers negligence. He regularly assists clients in both litigious cases, and regulatory complaints before the professional councils. In 2020, he was recognised as a top health lawyer when he was awarded Lawyers Weekly’s 30 under 30 Health and Medical Award. Steven has also been appointed to the Human Research Ethics Committee of Concord Repatriation General Hospital (which approved clinical trials on patients).
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Steven Cardell
Partner
t: +61 7 3001 9239+61 7 3001 9239
m: +61 417 074 405+61 417 074 405
o: Brisbane
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Steven has extensive experience in all aspects of property law and specialises in development work involving complicated community titling and body corporate structuring and documenting those transactions. Steven has been consistently listed in the Doyle’s Guide of leading lawyers in the areas of “Property & Real Estate Lawyers”, “Leasing Lawyers” and “Retirement Living & Aged Care Lawyers”.
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Lani Carter
Special Counsel
t: +61 8 8415 9836+61 8 8415 9836
o: Adelaide
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Lani is an experienced commercial and insurance litigator, specialising in Professional Indemnity and Health. Lani leads the professional indemnity practice in South Australia and the Northern Territory.
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Theo Casimatis
Partner
t: +61 2 9260 2625+61 2 9260 2625
m: +61 414 908 141+61 414 908 141
o: Sydney
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Theo is a senior property partner with more than 30 years’ experience advising property industry participants on major property acquisitions, divestments, developments, structured purchases and joint ventures.
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Julien Castaldi
National Practice Group Leader
t: +61 2 4924 7605+61 2 4924 7605
m: +61 403 171 405+61 403 171 405
o: Newcastle
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Julien is a senior commercial litigator with more than 20 years’ experience advising on and acting in complex commercial matters involving contractual disputes, equity, defamation, trade practices matters, insolvency, partnership disputes, and property disputes. Julien's expertise spans strategic and succession advice as well as dispute resolution. Julien also focusses his practice on corporate and commercial law including acting regularly on buy/sell transactions and structuring advice for unlisted companies.
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Alex Chan
Special Counsel
t: +61 8 8415 9845+61 8 8415 9845
o: Adelaide
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Alex is an administrative lawyer and solicitor advocate who regularly appears for Commonwealth departments and agencies in the Federal Courts and Tribunals. Alex is also an experienced educator who designs legal training and educational programs.
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Bill Chapman
Consultant
t: +61 2 9260 2587+61 2 9260 2587
o: Sydney
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Bill is a highly experienced and credentialed finance lawyer with more than 30 years’ experience advising domestic and offshore banks and financial institutions. His experience covers all forms of financing from syndicated secured and unsecured lending, bilateral and club loans as well as asset financing. Bill has been involved in a number of major project financings, including PPPs. He also has a well established reputation in the surety bonding/performance guarantee space. Since the introduction of the Offset Regime under the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 (Cth) in 2008, Bill has become one of Australia’s leading film finance lawyers. He represented the U.S. based banks providing funding for the award-winning Hacksaw Ridge and Russell Crowe’s The Water Diviner to name just two of the productions he has been involved with.
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