Sparke Helmore has recruited a Brisbane-based partner from Holding Redlich with corporate and dispute resolution experience.
Johnson Winter Slattery has nabbed a Jones Day partner to work coast to coast at its Brisbane and Perth offices, bolstering the ranks of its disputes and insolvency team.
Commonwealth Bank of Australia has recruited Clayton Utz partner and executive chair Karen O’Flynn to replace the outgoing Carmel Mulhern as the bank’s group general counsel.
The NSW Supreme Court will welcome two prolific commercial silks to the bench, including a barrister known as an advocate for gender equality at the bar.
Ashurst has poached two Gilbert + Tobin partners for its corporate team, as the firm expands its offering in the public and private M&A markets in Australia and abroad.
The Victorian government has elevated an Associate Justice who has overseen class actions and a senior counsel who assisted the Victorian royal commission into Crown Resorts to serve as judges on the Supreme Court of Victoria.
Johnson Winter Slattery has appointed senior tax specialist Don Spirason, former Vice President of Tax at BHP, as a special counsel based in Melbourne. Spirason joins JWS with more than 20 years’ tax experience, including more than 10 years at BHP and 5 years at Foster’s Group. Beginning his career at Corrs Chambers Westgarth, he…
Clifford Chance has added former Clayton Utz competition and consumer law partner Elizabeth Richmond to the firm’s global antitrust team in Sydney.
Boutique litigation firm Banton Group has hired Laura Keily and Ryan McCrosson as name partners, as as the firm eyes expansion into the US, UK and Cayman markets.
A judge from the Supreme Court of Victoria has been selected to lead the successor to the troubled Administrative Appeals Tribunal, which will be abolished following allegations the former government appointed political allies with no expertise.