This 4-hour session is packed with everything you need to know on cross-border contracts, covering topics from establishing jurisdiction and governing law in international agreements to managing supply chain disputes and identifying early signs of insolvency. You'll also explore arbitration mechanisms, consider landmark cases, the application of the Vienna Convention (CISG) for international sales, and crucial trans-border IP and privacy issues in contract drafting.  Additionally, you will focus on the new Privacy Act and the required clauses.

Presenters

Julia Dreosti, Partner, Clifford Chance
Julia is an experienced arbitration and litigation practitioner in our L&DR group in Australia, with over 15 years’ experience advising and representing clients on the full spectrum of contentious matters across a wide range of sectors including aerospace and defence, infrastructure, construction, energy, government and corporates. Julia acts as both counsel and arbitrator. She also regularly advises clients on dispute avoidance, contract administration and risk minimisation at all stages of the major project lifecycle. Her experience also includes advising clients on compliance and directors duties, and dealing with regulatory authorities in the context of various types of investigations and court proceedings. In addition to her experience in Australia, Julia has previously worked in Paris and Singapore. Prior to re-joining Clifford Chance, Julia was a principal in a boutique disputes firm for a number of years.


Jennifer K Mee, Barrister, 6 St James Hall Chambers
Jennifer Mee has a broad commercial and public law practice, with particular expertise in complex commercial, corporate, property, construction, environmental and administrative law litigation. She also has specialist expertise in energy law. Prior to commencing at the bar in 2017, she practised as a solicitor for over 20 years, over 15 of which were as a partner at national and global law firms. She brings to her role as a barrister the benefit of many years of business, commercial, legal and regulatory experience. Jennifer regularly appears in numerous Federal and State courts and tribunals, including the High Court of Australia, Federal Court of Australia, and Supreme Court of NSW.


Angus Macinnis, Director of Dispute Resolution, StevensVuaran Lawyers
Angus Macinnis is Director of Dispute Resolution at StevensVuaran Lawyers, a boutique commercial law firm in Sydney. Alongside his commercial dispute resolution practice, he has taught international sale of goods law at the University of Technology, Sydney, The University of Notre Dame Australia, and presently in the Thomas More Law School at the Australian Catholic University, where he holds the role of Legal Professional Mentor. He has also been invited to present lectures on the CISG for the international law practice course conducted by the International Law Section of the Law Council of Australia, and is a former co-chair of the Section’s International Trade and Business Law Committee.


Nicole Murdoch, Principal, EAGLEGATE Lawyers
Nicole is the Principal of EAGLEGATE Lawyers and a recommended Lawyer in the 2022, 2021, 2020 and 2018 listing of Leading Queensland Intellectual Property Lawyers - Doyles Guide. As a qualified Lawyer, Electrical Engineer and Trade Marks Attorney, Nicole's qualifications and practical experience allow her to fully comprehend the nexus of the law, technology and business to provide advice to her clients - which is both commercially sensible and technically practical. Nicole's legal experience includes Intellectual Property litigation including, trade mark, patent, copyright and domain name disputes and associated misleading and deceptive conduct, confidential information and passing off disputes. She also acts in Information Theft cases to prepare clients for data breaches, assists upon a breach, gives advice in respect of mandatory data breach notifications and prosecutes insider threats.


Daniel Allman, Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright Australia
Daniel Allman is a dispute resolution lawyer based in Sydney. Daniel specialises in cross-border dispute resolution. He has represented clients in international commercial and investment arbitration, and has experience in energy, finance, and infrastructure, among other industries. His domestic litigation practice has involved disputes with transnational implications as well as general commercial litigation. Prior to joining the firm, Daniel was an associate in the international arbitration practice of a global law firm in New York. He focused on international commercial arbitration arising out of projects in Latin America and investment treaty arbitration related to conflict in Eastern Europe. Daniel also worked as a consultant to a United Nations agency in relation to business and human rights issues in Southeast Asia, and as a solicitor at another international law firm in Australia and on secondment in China. Daniel is presently registered as an attorney in New York and also practises as a solicitor in New South Wales, Australia.