Breanna Davies

Breanna specialises in corporate transactions (including disposals, sales, fundraisings and shareholder, and joint venture arrangements), and the drafting and negotiating of commercial agreements for clients across the private and government sectors. Highly valued by her clients for her whole of business approach to legal advice and relationships between stakeholders, Breanna has extensive experience in mergers […]

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Sarah Toohey

Sarah has more than 25 years’ experience as a commercial lawyer, advising private and public sector clients in a large range of industries. She appreciates the complex and challenging environments in which our clients operate, and enjoys solving problems in a practical and commercial manner. Her recent work has been focussed on employment, workplace health and […]

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Michael Owens

Michael has more than 25 years of experience in corporate litigation, dispute resolution, and intellectual property. He advises rights owners and users on the development, protection and management of their intangible assets including inventions, brands, business secrets, copyrights, contracts, and reputations. He also advises on competition matters, including restrictive trade practices, consumer regulation and non-compete […]

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Lionel Hogg

Lionel Hogg is the head of our Corporate Advisory Group in Brisbane and is a key member of our Government Services Team. He has twenty five years of partner experience and a wide-ranging commercial practice, particularly in major contracts, having drafted a number of industry-standard agreements in various sectors. His recent work includes – Acting for […]

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Kane Jacobson

Kane is a multiskilled lawyer with keen commercial acumen who specialises in commercial, corporate and business law. With legal skills complemented by finance, Kane brings his dual-aspect expertise to matters. His passion is combining those skills to obtain commercial outcomes while protecting against risk. Kane has over 20 years’ experience in contract law, business conveyancing, […]

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Doug Goodman

Doug has over 30 years’ experience in a broad range of corporate and commercial matters, with particular emphasis on capital raisings (including initial public offerings, rights issues, placements, share purchase plans, and private equity raisings), takeovers, corporate reconstructions, mergers and acquisitions, asset sales and purchases, due diligence, joint ventures, privatisations and advising in relation to […]

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David Smith

David works with clients on a range of commercial intellectual property, technology and consumer law matters and has a leading trade promotions and marketing law practice. David has broad experience in intellectual property and technology law. He has a particular focus on: Consumer law (misleading conduct; consumer warranties; product safety; unfair terms). Information technology and […]

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Michael Kenny

Michael specialises in equity capital markets and mergers & acquisitions. Michael advises on a range of corporate and commercial matters, including the ASX Listing Rules, Corporations Act, commercial contracts, joint ventures, employee share ownership plans and securities law matters. Clients enjoy working with Michael because of the commercial results driven approach that he brings to […]

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Jol Rogers

Jol’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, equity capital markets and other corporate advisory work, including advising domestic and international clients on: negotiated mergers and acquisitions including share and asset acquisitions and disposals; regulated mergers and acquisitions, including takeovers and schemes of arrangement, with experience acting for both bidder and target; equity capital raisings including […]

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Peter Poulos

Peter has 26 years’ experience in tax, and was previously a specialist Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Tax Partner at KPMG and served as chair of KPMG’s Global M&A Tax practice. Peter’s experience encompasses roles in the tax structuring and/or tax due diligence for circa 500 transactions, covering all transaction sizes and industry sectors with a […]

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Jeremy Smith

Jeremy is Gadens’ National Chairman, as well as the Chairman of our Melbourne and Sydney partnership. His practice involves advising clients on a range of corporate and commercial law matters. Jeremy advises listed and private companies on a range of corporate and commercial matters, including mergers and acquisitions, capital raising and IPOs, joint ventures, general […]

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Patrick Walsh

With 30 years’ experience in various State Supreme Courts, Courts of Appeal, the Federal Court, the Full Court of the Federal Court and the High Court of Australia, including cross border and international disputes, Patrick leads our Disputes practice and continues to achieve maximum returns for his clients. Recognised as a leading disputes lawyer, Patrick […]

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