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Presenters

William Calokerinos, Barrister, 2 Wentworth Chambers
Mr Calokerinos, a barrister, practising from 2 Wentworth Chambers, accepts instructions from Solicitors both in practice and in-house Counsel. He is a chartered tax adviser, chartered accountant ca. Mr Calokerinos prides himself on his attention to detail in all his professional work. In his early career, Mr Calokerinos spent around six years working in management and director reporting roles as a senior management accountant in the telecommunication industry (Vodafone and Macquarie Telecom) prior to his experience working in the Big Four in tax consulting. As a Barrister, Mr Calokerinos currently practices in both criminal and civil jurisdictions. Mr Calokerinos has significant expertise in the following areas of law: tax law advisory and litigation, commercial advisory and litigation, commercial leasing advisory and litigation, corporate insolvency advisory and litigation, bankruptcy advisory and litigation, criminal law litigation (serious complex crime and indictable criminal matters), planning and environmental advisory and litigation and building and construction, advisory and litigation. Mr Calokerinos is constantly maintaining his tax knowledge and he is a current CTA (Chartered Tax Adviser) member with the Tax Institute of Australia and a full member and Chartered Accountant (CA) with CAANZ. Mr Calokerinos is also a lecturer and teacher with the Tax Institute in the CTA3 GST program. Mr Calokerinos is a current casual academic at UTS Law School teaching Construction Law in the UTS LLB Program (Bachelor of Laws) and a current casual academic at Western Sydney University teaching immigration law. Mr Calokerinos is a long-standing member of the Master Builders Association with a Cert IV in Building and Diploma of Building.


Nick Chadwick, Principal, Chadwick Workplace Law
Nick Chadwick has practised in employment law and industrial relations for 35 years. Nick's entrée into the world of industrial relations in 1989 was at a time when disputation and strikes were frequent.  He spent most of his time at the NSW Industrial Relations Commission or the Australian Industrial Relations Commission or in meetings with Unions.   Nick has run a small employment law practice for the last 16 years, predominantly representing small to medium sized business in all facets of industrial relations and employment law.  Nick’s practice covers all matters in connection with industrial and employment law - unfair dismissal; general protections claims; workplace investigations; strategic employment advice; dispute resolution and mediation; work health and safety; discrimination, bullying, harassment and Respect@Work; drafting policies and procedures and advocacy and representation in all tribunals and courts.


Caitlin Whale, Partner, Baker McKenzie
Caitlin Whale is a Partner in the IPTech team at Baker McKenzie. She advises on technology, data issues, cybersecurity, privacy, procurement and telecommunications issues. Her practice focusses on complex commercial transactions, particularly those which involve technology, data or cybersecurity issues. Caitlin has practised as a technology and intellectual property lawyer in both Sydney and London for over 17 years.


Chris Wilkinson, Partner, Brown Wright Stein Lawyers
Chris is a Partner at Brown Wright Stein Lawyers. He is primarily a problem solver, helping clients to resolve issues in the following areas: insolvency and bankruptcy; commercial disputes; and taxation disputes. Chris advises directors and business owners on all aspects of the business life cycle including stakeholder disputes and director's duties and provides tailored insolvency and restructuring advice when things don't go as planned. He acts for and advises insolvency professionals, as well as creditors and debtors, in both personal and corporate insolvency matters, including in relation to voidable transaction claims.


Daniel Emmerig, Barrister, 9 Wentworth Chambers
Daniel accepts briefs to advise and appear in all areas of law, with a particular focus on commercial and corporate law. Prior to coming to the Bar, Daniel was an Associate in the Disputes and Investigations team at Allens. Daniel has experience in a range of areas including commercial law, class actions, corporations and insolvency, civil penalty proceedings, superannuation, and environment and planning law. Daniel also has experience acting in regulatory matters, including investigations and proceedings conducted by ASIC, APRA, ATO, the AFP and the former Department of Planning and Environment. Daniel is also currently studying a LLM in International Corporate and Commercial Law at King's College London.


Lauren Gidley, Legal Practitioner Director, Glass Goodwin
Lauren Gidley was admitted as a solicitor in July 2010. She holds a Masters of Applied Law, majoring in Wills and Estates, and in October 2017, she became an Accredited Specialist in Wills & Estates Law. Lauren has been working in the wills and estates area for over 15 years. She worked in various positions at the NSW Trustee and Guardian and a private trustee company, before moving into private practice in 2013. In March 2015, Lauren joined Glass Goodwin. She was appointed as a Senior Associate on 1 July 2017 and was named as a Rising Star in the Doyle's Guide - Wills & Estates Litigation, Sydney in 2017.


Rebecca Mulae, Conclave Facilitator, R3 Resolutions
Rebecca has over 20 years’ experience as a litigator and now brings her expertise to facilitating conclaves of expert witnesses. She chairs meetings of experts to ensure that they address the questions that are put to them by the parties' legal representatives, ensure each expert’s opinion is heard, areas of agreement are identified, and reasons for any differences of opinion are recorded in the joint expert report required by the Court. The final years of her practice as a litigator were as a partner of a prominent Australian law firm, where she managed and mentored a team of litigation lawyers. She has extensive experience in a variety of litigated claims with a focus on liability and professional indemnity matters, including claims involving medical professionals, owners and occupiers, construction companies, public authorities, councils, property managers, large scale corporations and small businesses. With extensive experience in litigated claims involving nervous shock, psychiatric illness, personal injuries, catastrophic injuries, birth injuries, economic loss, and property damage, she is able to understand, and be engaged in, the technical issues often discussed by the experts, yet able to facilitate the conclave with a focus on neutrality and timely production of the final joint report.


Ian McKnight, Special Counsel, Pobi Lawyers
Ian McKnight is a Practice Group leader and widely regarded as a doyen of strata law in New South Wales. His standing has been earned over the course of a 43 year career bestriding property law and strata management. Unique amongst property lawyers, Ian is a genuine specialist. Strata and community title law is not a part time pursuit, it forms the core of his day-to-day legal practice. He brings firsthand experience of the strata challenges to his advice from his time as a director of a corporate strata management firm. A sought after keynote speaker, Ian provides regular education sessions to the Real Estate Institute of Australia and on occasion to Strata Community Australia. He publishes widely on the subject of strata law. Ian counts among his clients strata managing agents, owners corporations, developers, building managers, property professionals, real estate investors and regulators.


Stephen Ipp, Barrister, Greenway Chambers
Stephen Ipp is a barrister specialising in arbitration, building and construction, commercial, corporations and insolvency law. He acts in a wide range of disputes involving shareholders, commercial fraud, real property transactions, complex recoveries for financiers and liquidators, engineering and infrastructure disputes, general building and strata defect claims. Stephen advises on trial strategy at all stages of the litigation process and works closely with instructing solicitors. He has more than 25 years of experience working with experts across a wide range of professional disciplines. Stephen is recognised in The Best Lawyers in Australia 2021 to 2024 for his expertise in Insolvency and Reorganization Law, for Insurance Law in 2023 and 2024 for Banking and Finance in 2024. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK) (FCIArb).


David Mackay, Barrister, PG Hely Chambers
With nearly 20 years combined experience as a barrister and solicitor, David advises and appears for corporate clients and individuals on instruction from top-tier, mid-tier law and boutique law firms, as well as in-, house legal departments. While he maintains a broad practice, David has acquired specialist knowledge and expertise in the areas of commercial law and equity, corporations law, insolvency and bankruptcy, real property and leasing law and commissions and inquiries. David's prior experience as senior associate at a top-tier law firm in Sydney extends to having acted in a large number of retail leasing and commercial disputes. Since being called to the Bar in 2007, David has continued to build on his expertise in this area. Matters in which he has advised on and appeared in include, acting for landlords and lessees in claims for relief against fortfeiture, specific performance and estoppel, options to renew, retail lease disputes in mediations in the retail tenancy unit, and disputes regarding rent reviews and outgoings. His extensive experience in commercial and leasing matters extends to appearing at trial and appellate level in various jurisdictions, including the Supreme Court of New South Wales and inferior courts, as well as the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal (formerly the Administrative Decisions Tribunal). Complementing his practise as an accomplished advocate, David also appears on behalf of clients at mediations. David holds a Master of Laws, Bachelor of Laws (with Honours) and Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) from the University of Sydney. Prior to being called to the Bar, he gained considerable experience as a solicitor in the Commercial Litigation Department of MinterEllison for almost a decade, during which time he acted for clients in complex and high profile matters.


Anthea Kennedy, Partner, Bridges Lawyers
Anthea has been in practice as a solicitor since 1992. She has presented seminars and workshops in the areas of Wills and Estates law from 2002 onwards. Her work is mainly litigation, a high proportion of which is contested Probate, Family Provision cases and other Equity work together with estate planning advice. Anthea is an accredited specialist in Wills and Estates Law and is a past Chair of the Advisory Committee for Specialist Accreditation in Wills and Estates. Anthea is listed in the Doyle’s Guide of Leading Wills & Estates Litigation Lawyers 2024 as Preeminent in Australia and Market Leader in NSW. She is also listed as Preeminent in Leading Wills, Estates & Succession Planning Lawyers, NSW in 2024.


Olga Ganopolsky, General Counsel - Privacy and Data, Macquarie Group Limited
Olga Ganopolsky is Macquarie Group’s General Counsel - Privacy and Data and is versed in the subject of data protection with extensive experience in detailed privacy policy challenges, law reform and ongoing management of legal and strategic issues. Much of Olga’s work involves implementing new technologies and addressing privacy requirements in an increasingly complex co-regulatory and sometimes contentious environment. Most recently this has included work on implementations of GDPR and the reforms to Security of Critical Infrastructure Act and related regimes, artificial intelligence, CPS 234, Covid-19 related matters, the Consumer Data Right and addressing cross border issues considering the Schrems II Decision of the European Court of Justice and the newly updated Standard Contractual Clause as approved by the Commission.


Max Bonnell, Partner, Henry Williams Lawyers
Max Bonnell is a highly experienced, commercially-focussed litigator, with expertise in all forms of dispute resolution. He acts in a wide range of commercial disputes, including matters arising in the banking, corporate, mining, resources and construction sectors. He has consistently been ranked among the leading international arbitration lawyers in Australia, and has appeared as counsel in arbitrations in Europe, Asia and Australia. He teaches international law at the University of Sydney as an Adjunct Professor.


Jennifer Shaw, Partner, Bartier Perry
Jennifer is a Partner in Bartier Perry’s Dispute Resolution & Advisory team with over 20 years of experience in the legal profession. Jennifer has in depth experience in professional disciplinary matters. She is a panel member of the Law Society’s Professional Conduct Advisory Panel and she acts for and advises solicitors who are subject to disciplinary complaints, show cause events, suspensions and related proceedings. She has also acted for and advised peak professional bodies in relation to the prosecution of disciplinary matters before specialist Tribunals in NSW and the ACT. In her broad disputes practice she has a particular focus on: elder financial abuse, civil recoveries arising from fraud related events, debt recovery, contract disputes, professional negligence, construction disputes, intellectual property disputes and family provision/estate disputes.


Simone Blackadder, Special Counsel, Baker McKenzie  
Simone Blackadder is a special counsel in Baker McKenzie's IP Tech team in Sydney. Simone has been with Baker McKenzie since 2010. In her time at Baker McKenzie, Simone has spent 3 years working in London (2017-2020). Simone focuses on providing commercial contracting advice for service and outsourcing arrangements. Simone also provides advice on regulatory and privacy issues for IT, online, financial services and technology businesses. Simone regularly advises on cyber security, including compliance and cyber response incidents. While in London, Simone worked with many businesses seeking to navigate its obligations under its contracting arrangements as well as data, tech regulatory and GDPR implementation. Key industry sectors in which Simone works are TMT, consumer goods and retail and financial sectors.

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