Key Responsibilities: • Strategic Legal Leadership: Oversight of all legal functions, including commercial, corporate, and operational matters, while aligning legal strategies with business objectives to drive growth and innovation. • Risk Management & Compliance: Developed and implemented comprehensive compliance frameworks, ensuring adherence to regulatory requirements across diverse jurisdictions. Proactively identified and mitigated legal, operational, and reputational risks. • Mergers & Acquisitions: Provided strategic counsel on complex transactions, integrations, and partnerships, supporting the business in achieving long-term objectives. • Contract Management: Negotiated and structured a wide range of contracts, including procurement, sales, employment, real estate, and licensing agreements, ensuring favorable outcomes for the organization. • Dispute Resolution: Led effective strategies for managing disputes, including litigation and alternative dispute resolution, to protect the company’s interests and minimize exposure. • Governance & Corporate Advisory: Advised on corporate governance, ethics, and decision-making processes, promoting transparency, accountability, and compliance with best practices. • Leadership & Mentorship: Served as a key member of the global and regional executive leadership teams, fostering collaboration across functions and empowering legal talent through mentorship and development initiatives. • Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: Champion for diversity and inclusion initiatives, supporting programs that empower underrepresented voices and enhance team engagement. • Crisis Management: Played a pivotal role in cross-functional teams to ensure business continuity during critical situations, safeguarding operational stability. • Legal Technology & Innovation: Implemented legal tools and processes to optimize efficiency, streamline workflows, and reduce external legal spend.

Highlights: • Advised on M&A transactions valued at over AUD $2B, including the demerger of Amcor Australasia’s $1.4B business. • Seconded as Acting Counsel for Amcor, City West Water, and Schweppes. • Led commercial contracting and corporate governance projects for major clients.

Focused on intellectual property, litigation, and commercial law across sectors such as fashion, energy, and agriculture.Key Projects: • Advised major fashion retailers on brand protection and IP commercialization. • Managed high-stakes disputes and commercial restructuring.

Corporate - M&A/Capital Markets.Litigation and IP - Commercial Litigation and Dispute Resolution.Industries: Mining, banking, gaming / racing, not-for-profit.

Intellectual property and media law.

Intellectual property, media and communications law.

Competition and corporate (M&A) law.

Intellectual property law.

Document management and research for litigation, energy and resources and construction law groups.

Telecommunications, general commercial, competition and IP law.

Microbiology, immunology and proteomics.