Lawyers in Australia

Anthony Willis

Partner

Maddocks

Anton Harris

Partner

Ashurst

Anton Vucak

Anton practices in all areas of insurance with a focus on workers’ compensation, medical treatment and public/property liability. He provides strategic advice on professional risks including health and safety law, employers’ indemnity claims and general insurance litigation. Anton has advised and appeared in various courts on behalf of insurers, brokers, hospitals, mining clients and several of Australia’s largest companies and stakeholders. He regularly appears as counsel in the Arbitration Service of WorkCover WA and the District Court of Western Australia. Anton is regarded as a senior specialist insurance practitioner with proven experience in dealing with complex insurance litigation, provision of concise and reliable indemnity advice and has assisted insurers with the drafting of policy wordings. Anton has also provided advice to the Insurance Council of Australia (WA). Anton has dedicated experience in complex contractual indemnity and recovery claims and regularly provides advice on construction, engineering and geotechnical claims. Anton is listed as a leading workers' compensation and public liability lawyer, and as a recommended professional indemnity, CTP and medical negligence and malpractice lawyer in WA in Doyle's Guide to the Australian Legal Profession. He is also a recommended insurance lawyer in The Legal 500 Asia Pacific.

Hall & Wilcox

Antonia Li

Principal

Piper Alderman

Ariel Borland

Partner

Mills Oakley

Arjunan Puveendran

Partner

Thomsons

Arlene Colquhoun

Partner

Maddocks

Armando Scenna

Partner

Thomsons

Arthur Koumoukelis

Partner

Thomsons

Arvind Dixit

Partner

Corrs Chambers Westgarth

Ashleigh Le

Principal Solicitor - Corporate & Commercial

KHQ Lawyers

Ashley Jones

Partner

Norton Rose Fulbright

Ashley Watson

Principal

Piper Alderman

Barbara Callanan

Partner

Thomsons

Barbara Phair

Barbara's highly regarded Indirect Tax practice is based on over 30 years' industry experience. Barbara's practice includes all areas of Australian State taxes, including stamp duty, payroll tax and land tax, as well as GST, which she has advised on since its introduction in 2000. Barbara advises on tax issues surrounding asset and business acquisitions and sales, reorganisations and mergers, property investment, infrastructure projects and financings. She is highly experienced advising on the implications of Australian indirect tax legislation, including GST, across a broad range of transactions, and assisting clients on disputes with revenue authorities. Barbara has a reputation for working closely across client and adviser teams to carefully identify and manage issues as they arise.

Ashurst

Baron Alder

Partner

Moray & Agnew

Barry Sherriff

Partner

Norton Rose Fulbright

Bart Oude-Vrielink

Minter Ellison

Beau Weigand

Partner

Piper Alderman

Belinda Harvey

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Norton Rose Fulbright

Ben Allen

Ben is a partner with almost 20 years as a litigator and dispute resolution lawyer. Ben has acted in complex and sensitive commercial disputes for both government and private sector clients, including class actions, financial services representative proceedings, financial products and technology procurement disputes. Ben also leads the Australia region White Collar & Government Investigations team, acting for clients in all areas of organisational risk including fraud, bribery and corruption, data privacy and corporate wrongdoing. Ben acts for clients in a broad range of disputes relating to property, contracts, corporations law, equity and tortious claims with a particular industry focus on commercial disputes relating to the property, technology and health care sectors. Ben’s experience includes managing complex and reputation-sensitive commercial disputes in the Federal Court and Supreme Courts of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland and the Australian Capital Territory. He is also highly skilled in dispute negotiation, alternative dispute resolution, conciliation and mediation. Ben also acts for clients facing regulator investigations of alleged corporate wrongdoing and white collar crime offences, as well as those facing enforcement actions by regulators. Ben regularly advises clients in relation to fraud, data privacy, bribery and corruption and Corporations Act breaches, and assists with policy development (including whistleblowing, cyber breach preparedness, anti-bribery fraud control management and regulator responses). Ben also helps organizations prepare for and conduct internal investigations of corporate wrongdoing and resultant recovery actions, including asset-tracing and asset preservation.

Dentons

Ben Constance

Partner

Holding Redlich

Ben Coogan

Partner

Thomsons

Ben Cotter

Ben is an experienced construction lawyer with more than ten years’ experience acting for clients in both transactions and disputes in both the public and private sectors. He acts for asset owners, developers, contractors, consultants and financiers in respect of construction, engineering and infrastructure projects. With a grounding in property law and planning law, Ben is proactive in identifying and addressing potential issues before they become problematic. He is pragmatic, clear, and concise, and always looks to achieve commercially sound outcomes for his clients. His experience includes drafting and negotiating a range of agreements including construction contracts, consultancy agreements, project development agreements and supply contracts (with and without installation). Ben also regularly assists clients in administering their contracts and advises clients in relation to claims and disputes arising from their projects (including security of payment claims).

Hall & Wilcox