As a mem­ber of the cor­po­rate, com­mer­cial and intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty prac­tice I am pas­sion­ate about help­ing my clients achieve their goals. My focus is on cor­po­rate and com­mer­cial trans­ac­tions, busi­ness advice, com­mer­cial­i­sa­tion of intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty rights, and brand pro­tec­tion strategies.

Hav­ing com­plet­ed legal sec­ond­ments to Ram­say Health Care and the Lib­er­al Par­ty of Aus­tralia (NSW), I pro­vide guid­ance and advice that is well-con­sid­ered and commercial.

I was a Coun­cil­lor (direc­tor) of the Law Soci­ety of NSW in 2021 – 2022, the state’s peak pro­fes­sion­al body rep­re­sent­ing over 35,000 mem­bers, hav­ing pre­vi­ous­ly held anoth­er non-exec­u­­tive direc­tor­ship with the Auro­ra Group, Ruby Foun­da­tion Lim­it­ed, a NSW based char­i­ty, for five years.

I have indus­try focus­es in the phar­ma­cy, health care, lux­u­ry goods, FMCG and tech­nol­o­gy spaces, and act for a num­ber of multi­na­tion­al com­pa­nies look­ing to expand into Aus­tralia, as well as a num­ber of local SME and ASX list­ed com­pa­nies look­ing to grow both here and overseas.

I was pre­vi­ous­ly named ​‘Aus­tralian Young Lawyer of the Year’ by the Law Coun­cil of Aus­tralia for not only my tech­ni­cal legal abil­i­ty but also my con­tri­bu­tions to the legal pro­fes­sion in the areas of well­be­ing, diver­si­ty, and inclusion.

I have also won a ​‘30 Under 30’ Award for com­mer­cial law, hav­ing also been a final­ist for a num­ber of oth­er awards across Aus­trala­sia since 2015, includ­ing ​‘Young Pri­vate Prac­tice Lawyer of the Year’ and ​‘Young Gun of the Year’. 

Exper­tise

  • Com­mer­cial
  • Cor­po­rate
  • Cyber
  • Fran­chis­ing
  • IP & Technology

Sec­tors

  • Health­care & Allied Health
  • Man­u­fac­tur­ing & Industrials
  • Retail & Wholesale
  • Ser­vices Pro­fes­sion­al & Non-professional
  • Tech­nol­o­gy & Media 

Expe­ri­ence

  • Data Pro­tec­tion & Security
  • Draft­ing, pros­e­cut­ing and advis­ing on trade mark and cer­ti­fi­ca­tion mark appli­ca­tions in Aus­tralia and inter­na­tion­al­ly, and advis­ing on brand pro­tec­tion strate­gies for domes­tic and multi­na­tion­al clients includ­ing man­ag­ing trade mark portfolios.
  • Nego­ti­at­ing, advis­ing on and con­duct­ing IP infringe­ment actions.
  • Draft­ing IP licence and assign­ment documents.
  • Draft­ing and advis­ing on soft­ware licences, SAAS agree­ments and oth­er tech­nol­o­gy arrangements.
  • Draft­ing and advis­ing on spon­sor­ship agree­ments, con­fi­den­tial­i­ty agree­ments, ser­vice agree­ments and oth­er com­mer­cial agreements.
  • Draft­ing and nego­ti­at­ing group pro­cure­ment agree­ments and terms of trade.
  • Con­duct­ing all aspects of share sale and busi­ness sale transactions.
  • Pro­vid­ing cor­po­rate sec­re­tar­i­al assis­tance and advice.
  • Draft­ing and advis­ing on share­hold­er agree­ments and oth­er cor­po­rate struc­ture documents.
  • Draft­ing pri­va­cy poli­cies and advis­ing on pri­va­cy and data pro­tec­tion matters.

Roles mem­ber­ships and education

  • Juris Doc­tor, Law, Uni­ver­si­ty of New South Wales, 2012
  • Inter­na­tion­al Stud­ies (Glob­al), Uni­ver­si­ty of NSW, 2009
  • Inter­na­tionale Beziehun­gen, Poli­tik und Gesellschaft, Rheinis­che Friedrich-Wil­helms-Uni­ver­sität Bonn, Ger­many, 2009
  • Coun­cil­lor (Direc­tor) – The Law Soci­ety of NSW (2021−22)
  • Exec­u­tive Coun­cil­lor – NSW Young Lawyers
  • Mem­ber – Intel­lec­tu­al Prop­er­ty Soci­ety of Aus­tralia & New Zealand (IPSANZ)
  • Chair-Elect – Emerg­ing Lead­ers Advi­so­ry Board, Mer­i­tas Law Firms Worldwide
  • Mem­ber – Com­mer­cial­i­sa­tion of Brands Com­mit­tee, Inter­na­tion­al Trade­mark Asso­ci­a­tion (INTA)

Direct Contact

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Publications

Using the Olympics in mar­ket­ing can be legal­ly risky

Three years (rather than the usu­al four) hav­ing elapsed since the COVID-deferred 2021 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Olympic fever has…

Mer­i­tas — An Intro­duc­tion to Tem­po­rary Changes Affect­ing Busi­ness­es in Aus­tralia and New Zealand

Look­ing for busi­ness and legal guid­ance regard­ing COVID-19 updates and pro­grams in Aus­tralia & New Zealand? This doc­u­ment has cov­er­age across…

Halo, it’s Rumi and Sir Carter — Bey­on­ce’s babies set to run the world

What more could a famous celebri­ty with an impres­sive for­tune want – a trade mark reg­is­tra­tion for their new­born chil­dren! Wel­come to…

In the News

Sona Pan­choly, Pres­i­dent of Mer­i­tas presents to Swaab

We are thrilled to be host­ing the 2024 Mer­i­tas ANZ Region­al Meet­ing! Sona Pan­choly, Pres­i­dent of Mer­i­tas, deliv­ered an engag­ing…

Press Release | Swaab Earns Recer­ti­fi­ca­tion in Mer­i­tas, the Pre­mier Glob­al Net­work of Inde­pen­dent Law Firms

Syd­ney, NSW (11 July 2024) – Swaab, a Syd­ney-based law firm, today announced that it has been award­ed recer­ti­fi­ca­tion in Mer­i­tas…

Reflec­tions on a Suc­cess­ful Mer­i­tas Annu­al Meet­ing – Char­lotte, North Carolina

The meet­ing offered unpar­al­leled oppor­tu­ni­ties for rep­re­sen­ta­tives from the glob­al Mer­i­tas net­work of 172 firms across more than 89 coun­tries…

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