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Newcastle, NSW, AU

Newcastle, NSW, AU

London

Secondment in the Real Estate team, as part of my final graduate rotation

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• completing rotations across the corporate and global financial markets team working with a range of market leading clients to deliver on major transactions
• M&A experience of working across deal stages from initial phases to signing, completion and post completion on both private and public M&A
• banking and finance experience with particular focus on leverage financing

Hamilton, New South Wales, Australia

• collaboratively working across business units in areas including legal, company secretariat, procurement and financial crimes
• working on the delivery of the merger of Greater Bank and Newcastle Permanent Building Society to create Australia’s largest customer-owned banks with 600,000 customers and A$20b assets
• reviewing high risk and business critical contracts and preparing correspondence and legal advice
• assisting in areas of program management including preparing and maintaining action logs, stakeholder engagement and using agile project management software
• engaging and advising on business as usual legal matters, such as areas like subpoenas, statutory notice responses and power of attorney matters
• assisting the company secretariat on the preparation of valuable deliverables

• contributing content ideas and responding to media briefs
• producing content for University’s social media pages, including Instagram videos and UoN Navigator Articles

Callaghan, New South Wales, Australia

• researching for the ‘Sustainable Energy Advocacy Coalition Project’ alongside researchers for the University of Newcastle and University of Melbourne as well as the commissioned extension of my Thesis research project
• conducting extensive background case study research, data mapping of over 500 state significant development projects and stakeholder mapping of key organisations and opinion leaders involved in energy-related projects;
• communicating with over 200 stakeholder organisations, co-ordinating interviews and field working schedules
• qualitative data gathering through conducting interviews with over 30 research participants

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• supporting multiple lawyers across large range of matters in areas including litigation, corporate, real estate, planning, approvals and environmental law
• conducting extensive legal research across areas of case law and legal policy, conducting and analysing a range of specialised legal searches
• preparing critical documents including correspondence, high-level written advice, contracts, quarterly legal updates, due diligences and court documentation from small to high profile legal matters
• working across complex and developing legal areas including climate change and energy transition
• managing client matters and billing and maintaining current awareness of legal changes for clients
• creating internal and external presentations for legal training purposes

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• assisting with KPMG's delivery of a key program relating to healthcare and governance
• working on a range of deliverables including tenders and high level research documents
• attending and planning internal, client, and reference group meetings, attending stakeholder roundtables and overseeing program delivery
• producing valuable materials, including email content, social media content and articles
• assisting on internal initiatives, including the implementation of KPMG's ESG framework

• completing over 100 volunteer hours providing pro-bono legal advice to the Newcastle community
• interviewing clients and conducting legal research, drafting documents and legal advice
• working across legal areas including criminal, family, traffic, animal, planning and native title law

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

• undertaking social and policy research in relation to potential impacts of the Climate Change (Action and Mitigation) Bill 2020 on regional economies
• navigating and applying qualitative and quantitative data to better understand the impacts of transition to low-carbon economies
• drawing key conclusions surrounding potential implications and mitigating actions
• providing a 4,000 word research report and associated presentation to the Australian National University and Zali Steggall MP of research findings

Newcastle, Australia

• conducting bi-weekly study sessions for groups of up to ten students
• engaging in lesson planning, maintenance of digital communication pages and record-keeping
• facilitating teamwork and group coordination

• completing a literature review of the entire foundation and development Sabatier’s Advocacy Coalition Framework, including its historical and current application to energy projects, to inform the background and project.
• compiling and producing literature findings into a excel spreadsheet
• leasing with researchers from the University of Newcastle and University of Melbourne

Bachelor Of Laws And Diploma Of Legal Practice, Law

Activities and Societies: University of Newcastle Law Students Association, University of Newcastle Legal Centre, United Nations Society.

International Climate Change Law And Policy, Cultural Identities Shaping Environmental Regulation: Energy And Climate Change Policy

International Study Experience at Kyoto University studying "Cultural Identities Shaping Environmental Regulation: Energy and Climate.

Australian National Internship Program, High Distinction

• Researching the impacts of transition on coal-dependent rural, regional and export-based communities and their economies in the context.

Bachelor Of Social Science (Sociology And Anthropology) (Honours), Social Science (Sociology And Anthropology), Distinction (Bachelors Degree) And First Class (Honours)

Activities and Societies: United Nations Society, University of Newcastle Law Students Association, FEUDA Intern• In June 2020, I.