Melissa Phillips

Melissa acts for a broad range of corporate, government and not-for-profit clients with a particular focus on unregulated and regulated mergers and acquisitions and equity capital markets. Melissa has extensive experience in relation to large scale acquisitions and disposals, equity capital raisings (including initial public offerings and secondary offers), joint ventures and shareholder arrangements, corporate […]

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Andrew Mackenzie

Andrew practices across the full gamut of commercial property, including commercial and industrial leasing, commercial sales and acquisitions, and logistics estate and high-rise developments. He has leading experience in logistics and commercial office leasing, acting for some of Australia’s largest institutional landlords in their Queensland and New South Wales portfolios, including some of Brisbane’s largest […]

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Deivina Peethamparam

As an Accredited Workplace Relations Specialist, and experienced senior legal practitioner, Deivina uses a combination of commercial acumen, technical knowledge and a client centric approach to drive positive outcomes. Deivina most recently held the position of Group General Counsel for a privately owned Australian building services specialist. In this role she practiced across all areas […]

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Kate Mills

Kate has broad experience in company mergers, acquisitions, contested takeovers (including Takeovers Panel matters), capital and debt raisings, continuous disclosure, and general corporate advisory work. Kate is a specialist in corporate governance and regulatory matters and investigations, including compliance and regulation of credit, financial markets and services, funds management, prudential and financial services executive accountability […]

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Vaughan Petherbridge

Vaughan has over 20 years of experience at top-tier law firms and in-house in Australia and the United States. Specialising in corporate and commercial law, Vaughan’s work focuses on mergers and acquisitions (M&A), early stage investing, joint ventures, complex business separations and transitional arrangements, and general corporate advisory work. Vaughan has successfully led and closed […]

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Matthew Trinca

Matthew acts for banks, financial institutions and borrowers in financing and lending transactions. His areas of expertise include property and construction finance, corporate and acquisition finance, aged care and retirement village financing, gaming and hospitality financing and the Personal Property Securities Act. Matthew has a broad range of experience including advising clients in relation to […]

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Anna Koumides

Anna is experienced in banking and finance litigation and regularly acts for financial institutions and specialises in security enforcement proceedings, property disputes, misleading and deceptive conduct, sale at undervalue, fraud, forgeries, subrogation and restitution. Anna also regularly advises clients as to the implications, interpretation and applicability of the National Credit Code and the Banking Code […]

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Mark Pistilli

Mark is the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Partner of Gadens. A qualified lawyer, Mark has a wealth of experience in building and managing high-performance law firms and teams. Mark joined Gadens from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), where he was a practising lawyer and sat on PwC’s legal leadership team. Mark was a managing (and founding) partner […]

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Winnie Sinn

Winnie acts for a broad range of corporate clients with a particular focus on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and commercial. Winnie advises clients in a range of industries including transport and logistics, consumer brands, technology and hospitality within the Asia-Pacific region. She has a broad range of experience including advising on large scale acquisitions, […]

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Louise Schmid

Louise specialises in litigation and insolvency, practising primarily in the area of dispute resolution including corporate and personal insolvency and commercial litigation in all Victorian and Federal Courts, the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal and the High Court of Australia. Louise works closely with large banking and funds management clients and their customers in relation […]

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Dudley Kneller

Dudley is a highly experienced lawyer with international and domestic experience, Dudley advises on commercial, regulatory and technology matters with specialisations in financial technology, cyber risk, privacy and strategic sourcing and supply projects. Dudley has advised a variety of clients on major technology arrangements, and he has over 20 years’ experience practising across Australia, Europe […]

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Edward Martin

Edward specialises in major, complex disputes and investigations and has extensive experience acting for corporates ranging from multinational and ASX listed companies to not-for-profits, as well as for government entities. Edward regularly advises on complex commercial disputes, contentious regulatory cases, investigations and commissions of inquiry, particularly those relating to the financial services, education and healthcare […]

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