Mr Martin Ross > Hall & Wilcox > Melbourne, Australia > Lawyer Profile
Hall & Wilcox Offices
LEVEL 11, RIALTO SOUTH TOWER
525 COLLINS STREET
MELBOURNE, VIC 3000
Australia
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Mr Martin Ross
Work Department
Corporate and Commercial
Position
Martin is a Partner at Hall & Wilcox, and leads the firm’s national Corporate and Commercial team.
Martin practices commercial law with extensive experience in contracts and commercial litigation. He focuses on corporate, commercial, regulatory and private clients, with particular expertise in the sports and media sectors.
Martin’s expertise includes complex commercial contracting, intellectual property and mergers and acquisitions. He has worked on high-profile and complex transactions and litigation, including media rights transactions, major sponsorship agreements, M&A in sport, governance, and rules and regulations.
Career
Martin joined Hall & Wilcox as a Partner in 2012, having previously been a Partner at Browne & Co.
Memberships
President of the Australian and New Zealand Sports Law Association (ANZSLA) and a founding and current member of the Law Institute’s Sports Law Committee.
Education
LLB (Hons), BEcon, LLM
Lawyer Rankings
Australia > Media and entertainment
(Leading partners)The team at Hall & Wilcox ‘offers commercial, agile and sound advice and support’ across the breadth of media and broadcasting matters. The practice is led by Martin Ross, who assists key sports and media clients. Other practitioners to note are James Deady, who is experienced in sports licensing work and media rights transactions; and Mark Lebbon, who is ‘reliable, personable and great at his craft’.
Australia > Corporate and M&A
With a highly experienced team, Hall & Wilcox attracts clients from across a host of industries, and – through its recent expansion into Western Australia – the department has a corporate offering across Australia’s major states. The group includes Oliver Jankowsky, who specialises in high-value cross-border deals, Ed Paton, head of the Southeast Asia desk, and Martin Ross, the sports and entertainment practice leader. Chris Brown and Jacqui Barrett deal with matters overseas, with Brown heading the UK desk and Barrett coordinating the US desk.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading partners Australia > Media and entertainment
- Media and entertainment Australia
- Corporate and M&A Australia
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Data protection
- Dispute resolution: litigation
- Environment and planning
- Fintech and financial services regulatory
- Insurance
- Media and entertainment
- Real estate
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Tax
- Corporate and M&A
- Energy (transactions and regulatory)
- Labour and employment
- Transport: shipping
- Banking and finance
- Infrastructure projects and construction