Commercial disputes

Leading Juniors
Leading juniors are those with significant experience of key cases, strong market recognition from both peers and clients, and are seen as future candidates for silk.
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Emma Beechey
New Chambers
'Great intellect, and very hard working.'
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Nico Burmeister
List G Barristers
'Excellent written and oral advocacy skills on industrial relations matters. Highly responsive. A pleasure to work with.'
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Melanie Cairns
Alinea Chambers
'Melanie displays exceptional attention to detail in her work and is incredibly hard working. She is able to quickly grasp complex legal issues and get to the heart of a matter. In addition to her impressive technical legal knowledge, Melanie has an excellent understanding of her clients’ commercial drivers and is highly regarded by her clients, briefing solicitors and peers.'  
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Caspar Conde
New Chambers
‘Caspar is a pleasure to work with – professional, a team player, hard-working and insightful. Caspar does an excellent job of cross-examining company director witnesses.’
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Patrick Holmes
Alinea Chambers
'Patrick is highly diligent, dependable and simply a pleasure to work with.  He is also commercial and focused on meeting clients goals.'
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Leigh Howard
List G Barristers
'Leigh is an extremely smart and pragmatic operator.  He is involved in the leading cases across Australia working with some of the most experienced senior counsel. You have great trust and confidence putting Leigh before the most sophisticated clients to run their most sensitive and important matters.'
1
Justin Mereine
Foley's List Barristers
'Justin is a tenacious and skillful barrister. His advocacy skills are persuasive and always on point. His analytical and strategic skills are exceptional, and his extensive technical knowledge is an asset, particularly when dealing with complex litigation. As a client, he is easy to work with, and he is a trusted pair of hands for contentious matters.'
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Greg O’Mahoney
New Chambers
‘Greg has a very strong black letter understanding of the law, balanced with the understanding to be commercial.  Greg is very good with clients and is very strong on his feet in the court room and in mediations.  He is always cross the details of the case and relevant law.’
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Andrew Pollock
List G Barristers
'Andrew is a highly accomplished counsel that has either run or been involved in all the leading cases.'
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Chris Peadon
New Chambers
'Very personable, great relationships with all sides including revenue authorities, able to explain complex technical issues to clients succinctly. Very good at explaining commercial risks of approaches to non-tax technical people.  In court has a very confident demeaner and comes across as authoritative on his technical arguments to support his cases.'
2
Kate Anderson
Young's List Barristers
‘Kate has been an excellent advocate in dealings with the regulators, with a calm and confident approach, while demonstrating sound knowledge of the regulator’s strategic objectives. She provides pragmatic, commercial advice to the client. Her written submissions and advice are excellent – clear, precise and succinct.’  
2
Andrew Byrne
7 Wentworth Selborne
'Andrew is very easy to work with. He is also great at getting the crux of the issue and providing his views on strategy in a way that is easily digestible for the client.' 
2
Fiona Cameron
Young's List Barristers
‘Fiona has excellent judgement, well-developed advocacy skills and a wide-ranging knowledge of tech law.’  
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Tom Clarke
List G Barristers
'Tom is considered and practical. He brings complex issues back to the discipline of the pleadings and relevant source material and cuts through the noise. Tom is a persuasive advocate but never puts propositions too highly.  He is a market leader in the energy sector.'
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Rebecca Davern
List G Barristers
'Her strengths are her work ethic, attention to detail in case preparation, and a superb sense of pragmatism. I cannot identify any weaknesses. Above all, she is a nice human who is so easy to work with and understands and has empathy for her instructing solicitors and their workload.'
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Courtney Ensor
New Chambers
'Courtney is extremely thorough and precise, who's knowledgeable of the law.'
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Dion Fahey
List G Barristers
‘Dion is super smart, hard working, knowledgeable across all areas of class action work and on the rise. He has appeared in a diverse range of interlocutory issues in three high profile class actions over the last year on which he has led the full spread of the work for the barristers’ team including the advocacy – and against leading silks instructed by the banks. Dion has more than held his own. His written work is outstanding and has the distillation and focus of the best barristers.’ 
2
Simon Fitzpatrick
7 Wentworth Selborne
‘Simon is strategic in his thinking, as well as commercial, which clients very much appreciate.  He is clever, yet not arrogant.  His drafting is second to none.  He is very reliable, responsive and easy to deal with.  His preparation for appearances is always thorough and his advocacy is persuasive and clear.’
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Matthew Follett
Dever's List Barristers
‘Matthew is a leading junior barrister who will surely in future succeed as a senior counsel.’
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Catherine Hamilton-Jewell
Alinea Chambers
‘Catherine has an amazing attention to detail and ability to recall information. She is an excellent lawyer and always very well considered. Her work product is always of a very high standard and she is very user-friendly. She is an incredibly calm and considered advocate and does not fluster easily.’ 
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Laura Hilly
List G Barristers
'Laura is an exceptional junior who brings unique regulatory experience and background to complex commercial disputes matters.'
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Tamasin Jonker
Alinea Chambers
'Tamasin is incredibly smart, hard-working and prepared to roll up her sleeves and be an active part of the overall legal team.'
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Helena Mann
7 Wentworth Selborne
'Helena is strategic and considered. Her advocacy is clear and purposeful. She always provides excellent support and is user-friendly.' 
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Michael May
Level Twenty Seven Chambers
'Michael is a very clear thinker with strong technical ability and excellent strategic and tactical sense.  His paperwork is very good and he has a smooth and engaging style on his feet.  He is hard working, efficient, and a pleasure to work with.'
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Karen Petch
New Chambers
'Karen is a great strategic thinker, highly responsive and hard-working. She is widely admired for her insolvency work but her practice extends to all areas of commercial law. She is often the first choice as a commercial junior in large cases.'
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Ben Petrie
Young's List Barristers
‘Ben is very effective at identifying strong, strategic positions at the outset of a matter.  In contractual disputes in particular, Ben is adept at articulating clear, compelling interpretation arguments, drawing on both the technical and the commercial aspects.  He is very approachable and responsive to instruct, and takes a practical approach. As an advocate he is calm and measured, confident and tactical.’ 
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Leanne Rich
Alinea Chambers
‘Leanne has a number of strengths. She has an exceptional knowledge of the law and judgement, and she is dedicated and extremely hard working.  Her written work is also very good.’ 
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Benjamin Ryde
List G Barristers
‘Ben is clever, analytical, measured and considered. He relates easily to all, and inspires trust and confidence. He is excellent given his intelligence, efficiency and the quality of his written and oral work. As an advocate, he is calm, reasoned and able to make complex issues seem simple. He quickly earns a judge’s confidence by limiting himself to ordered and well reasoned propositions without pressing weaker points.’
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Philip Santucci
New Chambers
‘Philip is very intelligent, responsive and easy to work with. Clients have been happy with Philip’s performance in mediation.’
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Adam Segal
List G Barristers
‘Adam is very easy to work with. He is very attentive – responds quickly to enquiries and turns work around promptly.  Adam is a very capable advocate and strategist.  He has a confident assured manner, is very organised in court, reads the room well and has a good rapport with the judiciary.’  
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Sonia Tame
New Chambers
‘An excellent lawyer with commercial approach. Very good judgement, including regarding how to approach different judges.’
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Premala Thiagarajan
List A Barristers
‘Premala gives advice that is considered, to the point and appropriately delivered.’  
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Stewart Webster
Level Twenty Seven Chambers
‘Strong in all aspects. Among the leading junior counsel in Queensland.’
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Derek Wong
Alinea Chambers
‘Derek is extremely smart and articulate. He is also hard working. However, what instructing solicitors appreciate most about Derek is his common-sense and commerciality – this sets him apart as a true star amongst his colleagues.’
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Brin Anniwell
7 Wentworth Selborne
'Excellent advocacy, suburb attention to detail, prompt delivery, highly intelligent, easy to work with, responsive to instructions.' 
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Thomas Bagley
Ninth Floor Selborne Chambers
 ‘Incredible breadth of legal knowledge in a range of practice areas.  Strong advocacy skills unled.  His advocacy style is calm, measured and focused, leading the Court through the client’s points methodically and purposefully.  Very strong in drafting pleadings and submissions.’
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Shipra Chordia
New Chambers
'Shipra has excellent legal and analytical skills, writes well, has excellent attention to detail and is a pleasure to work with. She conducts a diverse and busy practice and is highly regarded.'
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Shaun Clement
Young's List Barristers
‘Shaun demonstrates a high level of legal knowledge and expertise in his field and displayed a commendable level of preparation and thoroughness in handling the matter. Shaun consistently provides timely and comprehensive responses to questions and concerns.’ 
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Keni Josifoski
New Chambers
'Keni is very intelligent, and a very hard worker. Excellent barrister.'
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Kane Loxley
List G Barristers
'Very practical and commercial.  Able to explain complex issues in a digestable manner. Great team player.'
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Julia Roy
Sixth Floor Selborne Wentworth Chambers
Rising stars
Rising stars at the Bar are defined as barristers between four and eight years’ call who are seen as up-and-coming members of the Bar in their respective practice areas by clients and peers alike. They will already be instructed in high-profile, complex, and high-value contentious and non-contentious matters, working with and opposite more experienced leading counsel.

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