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10 CARRINGTON STREET
SYDNEY NSW 2000
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Angela Pearsall
Position
Angela Pearsall has extensive experience in dispute resolution. She specialises in large-scale commercial litigation and class actions, as well as contentious regulatory litigation and investigations.
Angela regularly handles complex financial reporting litigation, having acted for global accounting and auditing firms for more than a decade. She has led litigation including class actions arising out of major corporate collapses, IPOs, capital raisings, complex financial instruments and financial services’ obligations including AML/CTF. She regularly represents banks, large corporates, preeminent global accounting and auditing firms and directors.
Career
Australian National University (Bachelor of Laws) 1994
Admitted as a solicitor in Australian Capital Territory 1994
Admitted in the High Court of Australia 1994
Admitted as a solicitor in New South Wales, Australia 1996
Admitted as a solicitor in Western Australia 2005
Joined Clifford Chance as Partner 2016
ARITA Advanced Certification Course with distinction 2017 (University of Technology Sydney in conjunction with ARITA (Australian Restructuring Insolvency & Turnaround Association)
Lawyer Rankings
Australia > Dispute resolution: class actions
Representing both plaintiffs and defendants, the class action team at Ashurst has been active in complex class actions and acting for clients in major disputes, including shareholder, securities and employee class actions. Within the common fund order space, the firm has challenged the conventional approaches to class actions, having led the first Federal Court matter on whether common fund orders should be made early in class actions, as well as appearing in High Court joint appeals from separate Full Federal Court and NSW Court of Appeal decisions in relation to common fund orders. Ian Bolster heads the dispute resolution side and co-heads the class actions team, and has acted in complex disputes for high-profile clients. John Pavlakis specialises in shareholder class actions, as well as consumer class actions and class actions against governmental bodies, while Mark Bradley also co-heads the class actions practice and is active in commercial disputes. Sally-Anne Stewart and Ellena Cavell are names to note, and Angela Pearsall recently joined the firm from Clifford Chance.