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Presenters

Brendan Ashdown, Barrister, John Toohey Chambers
Brendan Ashdown has been admitted to legal practice for over 25 years. After founding his own firm, and later joining a mid-sized City firm, Brendan commenced practice at the bar in 2005 at John Toohey Chambers. Brendan undertakes trial and appellate work in a wide range of areas with an emphasis on equity & trusts, insolvency, contested wills & estates, and family law property matters (appeals, trust, company & third party issues).


Peter Beekink, Partner, Lavan
Peter Beekink is an internationally recognised lawyer practising in property law in Australia. Peter has represented the state of Western Australia and a number of its departments in significant land development projects in Western Australia. These projects have resulted in the delivery of some of Perth’s best known residential suburbs. Peter has also acted on significant land projects (both built form and vacant land) for private sector clients, some of these projects have been the largest transactions of their type in Western Australia. Peter often acts for offshore clients buying and selling significant real estate assets in Western Australia and has provided innovative solutions and structuring to effect land acquisitions and developments in Western Australia. These solutions have delivered significant wealth benefits to his clients. Peter has also advised on some of the largest agribusiness transactions in Western Australia. Peter acts for a number of landlords with respect to their leasing requirements in Western Australia. This covers retail, industrial and commercial leasing. Peter is the Western Australian editor of Thomson Reuters Retail Leasing in Australia. He is also on the editorial panel for the Australian Property Law Bulletin, his articles on real estate law are published throughout Australia. Peter regularly speaks to industry forums including events by the Property Council of Australia. He is in demand as a speaker on real estate law in Western Australia.


Matt Lenhoff, Principal, Zafra Legal
Matthew is an experienced commercial litigator and practises in a broad range of areas including corporate and partnership disputes, Corporations Act advice, property and lease disputes, consumer and competition law and insolvency. He has significant experience in building and construction matters including adjudications under the security of payment legislation and arbitration hearings. Matthew regularly appears as counsel in contested matters in State and Federal Courts as well as the State Administrative Tribunal.


Simon Moen, Partner, K&L Gates
Simon is an experienced real property lawyer. For the duration of his career, he has practised in all areas of real estate, strata titling and land development law. Simon has an in-depth knowledge of the land subdivision process, the acquisition and disposal of major parcels of land, shopping centres and office buildings. Simon advises property developers, local governments and not for profit organisations in relation to the structuring and implementation of real estate projects and drafts joint venture agreements, development agreements, real estate related service agreements, project delivery agreements and land development agreements. He also has particular expertise in the area of anchor tenant leasing, having acted for major retail and commercial tenants and landlords.


Tom Webb, Barrister, Quayside Chambers
Tom is a barrister practising in commercial and public law, with particular experience in international and domestic arbitration, construction law, property law, and corporate and financial regulation. He has acted for clients in a range of industries, including energy, mining, infrastructure, banking, telecommunications and technology. He has specialist experience in international arbitration. He sits on the ACICA Rules Committee and has, for several years, been a guest lecturer on the International Commercial Arbitration course at the University of Western Australia Law School. Tom also has extensive experience of mediation and expert determination. Before coming to the Bar, he was a partner of a global law firm based in Perth. Earlier in his career, he spent several years working at top-tier law firms in London and Sydney. In 2012, he became qualified as a Solicitor-Advocate (Civil) in England and Wales. Tom has a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws (with first class honours) from the University of Adelaide and a Master of Law from the University of Cambridge (where he was awarded a Cambridge Commonwealth Trust bursary).