Lawyers in Australia

David Davies

Special Counsel

Thomsons

David Dickens

David's expertise covers workouts, creditor claims, directors’ duties, voluntary administration, deeds of company arrangement, receivership, liquidation, distressed debt trading and acquisitions, and bankruptcy. David is a trusted adviser to banks and other lenders on all aspects of security enforcement. David also advises on property matters, acting for national landlords, significant tenants, investors and developers in real estate disputes. As a commercial litigator, he regularly acts for clients in disputes involving complex contractual issues, trusts, misleading and deceptive conduct and regulatory obligations. He has appeared in the Supreme Court of Victoria, the Federal Court and VCAT and represents clients in mediations and arbitrations. David is a regular presenter on topics relating to restructuring, insolvency and real estate.

Hall & Wilcox

David Ellenby

Partner

Corrs Chambers Westgarth

David Fixler

Partner

Corrs Chambers Westgarth

David Gandolfo

Partner

Moray & Agnew

David Gaszner

Partner

Thomsons

David Goldman

Partner

Norton Rose Fulbright

David Harris

5 Wentworth Chambers

David Hastie

Principal Solicitor - Construction & Infrastructure

KHQ Lawyers

David Larish

5 Wentworth Chambers

David McIntosh

David is a partner with extensive experience advising banks, financial institutions, insolvency practitioners and corporate clients on a wide range of restructuring and insolvency issues. David has represented a number of major Australian and international banks and financial institutions, insolvency officeholders, creditors, shareholders, security trustees, note holders and directors, advising on all aspects of corporate and debt restructuring, as well as local and cross-border insolvency processes and issues. In addition, he has extensive experience advising clients generally on all aspects of loan and security structuring, recovery and enforcement.

Dentons

David Mitchell

Director Co-Head of M&A (Private) and ECM (Private)

Kain Lawyers

David Murray-Nobbs

Partner

Thomsons

David Newman

Partner

Maddocks

David Perks

Minter Ellison

David Porter

Partner

Norton Rose Fulbright

David Schiavello

Partner

Thomsons

David Slatyer

Partner

Mills Oakley

David Starkoff

Partner

Piper Alderman

Deanna McMaster

Minter Ellison

Deborah Chew

Deborah has extensive experience across a broad range of commercial transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, equity capital markets and other corporate transactions, equity investments, shareholders and joint venture arrangements, management equity arrangements, ASX listed company advice, and a wide variety of commercial arrangements. Deborah’s major clients span a range of industries, with particular focus on the technology and biotech industries, and on agribusiness, and vary in size from start-ups to Australian industry leaders. Deborah began her legal career in New York, where she practised corporate and commercial law for over 10 years. She relocated to Australia in 1999. Deborah combines a deep knowledge of her clients and the industries they operate within with a familiarity with corporate transactions that is based on over 25 years of experience in both Australia and the United States

Hall & Wilcox

Deborah Tomkinson

Deborah is the Director of Corporate Strategy at Peter & Kim, responsible for strategic development and special projects. She also brings her expertise in international arbitration to case work as Counsel. Prior to joining Peter & Kim, Deborah was the Secretary-General of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (ACICA). In that role for over 12 years, Deborah was instrumental to ACICA’s strategic growth and development and its recognition as a leading arbitral institution. Deborah has also held roles at national and international law firms both in Australia and the UAE, with a focus on dispute resolution and management, primarily in the construction & infrastructure and energy & resources sectors. She has served as a Council Member of the International Federation of Commercial Arbitration Institutions (IFCAI), a Vice President of the Asia Pacific Regional Arbitration Group (APRAG), a R.E.A.L Ambassador and as a member of the ICCA Cross Institutional Task Force on Gender Diversity in Arbitral Appointments and Proceedings and the ERA Search Committee. Deborah is recommended in Doyle’s Leading Arbitration Lawyers (Australia) for 2025 and in Lexology Index – Australia & New Zealand – Arbitration, 2025. She was recognised by Who’s Who Legal as an Arbitration Future Leader from 2021 to 2024, was a finalist for the Lawyers Weekly, Women in Law Awards (Executive of Year) in 2024 and was included in The Legal 500: Private Practice Powerlist – Arbitration for Australia and New Zealand in 2022. Deborah sits on various ACICA committees including the ACICA Judicial Liaison Committee, ACICA Sustainability Taskforce and ACICA South Pacific Taskforce. Representative Cases Representing a large oil pipeline consortium in relation to multi-million-dollar LCIA arbitral proceedings concerning the operation of a quality bank system. Representing a Dutch industrial services company in Dubai International Arbitration Centre (DIAC) proceedings with respect to claims relating to wrongful termination and defective work on an offshore project. Acting for a Dubai-based property developer in DIAC arbitration proceedings in relation to claims for breach of contract and misrepresentation regarding a multi-million dollar purchase of land. Acting for a Kuwaiti-based aviation company in relation to DIFC-LCIA proceedings with respect to the breach of a services agreement. Advising a US Hotel Management corporation in relation to the enforcement of arbitral awards and issues of sovereign immunity in the UAE. Acting for an Australian steel corporation in Abu Dhabi Commercial Conciliation and Arbitration Centre (ADCCAC) proceedings in connection with an investment services contract. Advising a major Australian oil and gas exploration and production company in relation to arbitral proceedings in relation to a network of contracts subject to an umbrella arbitration agreement. Acting for an Australian state government agency in a facilitation process to resolve multiple disputes related to defects arising under a design, construct, operate and maintain deed for a road project. Representing a Dubai based property developer in DIFC Court proceedings in relation to claims in excess of AED180M. Acting for a foreign property developer in relation to multiple proceedings brought by off-plan purchasers in the First Instance Court of Dubai, Dubai Court of Appeal, and the Dubai Court of Cassation. Acting for and advising a US-based pharmaceutical company in relation to an FCPA due diligence review of an acquired company with respect to its operations in the UAE, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Nigeria. Acting for a Turkish construction company in relation to circa AED200M claims for extensions of time, additional works, and delay costs. Advising in relation to the commencement of arbitral proceedings under UAE law. Acting for a large Australian construction contractor in relation to a circa AUD150 million claim in respect of the renovation and construction of a shopping centre in the Supreme Court of NSW and NSW Court of Appeal. Acting for a large Australian commercial contractor in respect of a damages claim for misleading and deceptive conduct in relation to a dam spillway project, including proceedings run in the Supreme Court of NSW and resisting an application for special leave to appeal to the High Court of Australia.

Peter & Kim

Deborah White

General Counsel

Corrs Chambers Westgarth

Demetrios Christou

Partner

Thomsons