The New Order Begins! With the most significant overhaul of M&A regulation in nearly 50 years just passed by Federal Parliament and set to take effect in 2025, the timing of our 4-hour webinar couldn’t be better. Stay informed, compliant, and ready to navigate the new regime ahead. Join us to explore what this means for your deals in the next 12 months. Dive into procedural changes, financial and IP due diligence, integrating intangible assets, compliance with anti-competition rules, and strategies to boost deal certainty and accelerate closures. Additionally, hear from Dawna Wright on Purchase Price Adjustments & Post-Acquisition Disputes, offering strategies to avoid, minimise damage, or use these disputes strategically to your advantage. Plus, Help the expert to help you. Hear from Dawna Wright on purchase price adjustments & post-acquisition disputes, offering expert strategies to avoid, minimise damage, or use these strategically.  

Presenters

Amanda Comelli, Partner, Brown Wright Stein
Amanda Comelli is a Law Society of NSW Accredited Specialist in Business Law and currently sits on the Law Society's Specialist Accreditation Advisory Committee for Business Law. With more than 10 years' experience as a business lawyer, Amanda provides commercial and corporate law, tax law and estate planning advice to businesses and business owners. Amanda likes to keep her practice broad, to provide her clients with well-rounded and practical legal advice. Amanda has acted for a range of clients including both private and public companies, accountants, financial planners, retailers, business owners, manufacturers, individuals (including high net worth individuals) and not-for-profit organisations. She is also a founder of the Women in Tax Discussion Group, which is hosted monthly by Brown Wright Stein, as a forum for female tax professionals to meet and discuss recent key changes in tax law in a relaxed and supportive environment. Outside of work, Amanda enjoys travel, fitness, and spending time with her family. She has also represented Australia in several international karate tournaments!


Dr Martyn Taylor, Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright
Dr Martyn Taylor is a corporate and commercial Partner in the Sydney office of global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright. He has some 30 years’ experience in competition law. He sits on the board and also heads the telecommunications and media group, and the Australian competition and trade group. He is described as “smart, efficient, friendly”. Martyn’s practice covers transactional, contentious and advisory. He is a well-known TMT, infrastructure, energy, competition and regulatory lawyer. Martyn is recommended by the key legal directories and has been named as one of the ‘top 10’ TMT legal advisors in Asia. Martyn has won numerous prizes and awards, including recently for the $15 billion merger of Vodafone with TPG Telecom (M&A deal of the year 2021). He has attended Harvard University and Oxford University. He has published well over 100 publications, including the award-nominated book 'International Competition Law'. Qualifications: PhD(Law), CME(Harvard), LLM(Law), MFin(Corporate Finance), LLB(Hons), BA(Economics)(Hons), BSc, GAICD.


Dietrich Marquardt, Special Counsel, Norton Rose Fulbright
Dietrich is a competition and regulatory lawyer at Norton Rose Fulbright in Sydney. He also regularly acts for clients in the telecommunications, media and technology space, having acted for clients on a number of advisory and transactional matters, including in relation to M&A/JVs, infrastructure rollouts, satellite and tower deals, market entry, and access spectrum, whilst also advising upon strategies to mitigate risks associated with such matters, and ensuring regulatory compliance. Dietrich is recognized as an expert in his field, having been awarded winner of the Competition, Trade & Regulation category in the 2020 Lawyers Weekly 30 Under 30 awards, whilst being a finalist in the Media & Telecommunications category. He is currently undertaking is Masters of Law at Melbourne University.


Nicole Murdoch, Partner, Thynne + Macartney
Nicole is a Partner at Thynne + Macartney and leads the firm’s IP, Technology, Cyber, and Privacy Law practice group. She provides advice on a wide range of legal matters including Intellectual Property litigation, covering trade mark, patent, copyright, and domain name disputes, as well as related issues such as misleading and deceptive conduct, confidential information, and passing off disputes. She also acts in cyber matters to protect confidential information and trade secrets, and acts in fraud cases. Additionally, she provides Privacy Act advice, assists clients with data breach cases, advises on mandatory data breach notifications, and prosecutes insider threats. As a qualified Lawyer, Electrical Engineer, and Trade Marks Attorney, Nicole’s diverse qualifications and practical experience enable her to fully understand the intersection of law, technology, and business. This allows her to provide advice that is both commercially sensible and technically practical. Before her legal career, Nicole spent a decade in the IT industry. She has held key roles in industry organizations, including the Australian Information Security Association, auDA and the Queensland Law Society Cyber Security working group. She is an AICD Graduate. Nicole has been recognized as a Leading Queensland Intellectual Property Lawyer in the Doyles Guide for the years 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, and 2018.


Vinod Parasuraman, Partner, Head of Transaction Services, Pitcher Partners
With a career spanning 17 years, Vinod (Vin) is a corporate finance expert specialising in financial due diligence (including vendor due diligence), carve outs, SPA assistance, data room support, transaction advisory, and Investigating Accountants Reports for IPOs. He built his expertise over many years in a ‘Big 4’ Deals/Transaction Services team, managing clients and leading engagements in Australia and internationally. Vin also held a senior management role in a listed company within the personal transport sector. Known for his hands-on and methodical approach, Vin has a passion for connecting data with commercial insights. He is proactive in guiding clients on their growth journey, with a focus on becoming their trusted advisor. Vin joined Pitcher Partners Sydney Corporate Finance team as a Client Director in 2022 and was admitted to the partnership in 2024.


Dawna Wright, Senior Managing Director, Head of Australia Forensic & Litigation Consulting, FTI Consulting
Dawna Wright specialises in the interpretation of complex data and financial information and providing expert opinions for non-financial clients, particularly lawyers, Courts and Boards of Directors. With over 30 years of experience in auditing and forensic accounting, Dawna is valued for her hands-on approach and accessibility. A Chartered Accountant, Dawna has worked across Canada, the United States, France and Australia, holding Partner roles in both ‘Big Four’ and boutique firms. As an independent expert witness, consulting expert and expert determiner, Dawna has led numerous cases, particularly in post-acquisition disputes - a field she entered during her early forensic career in New York. Over the past 25 years, she has worked on several dozen disputes, including working capital adjustments, earn out disagreements, warranty and indemnity insurance claims and litigation involving misleading or deceptive conduct. Dawna represents both purchasers and vendors and serves as a neutral expert determiner accredited by the Resolution Institute. Dawna has provided expert testimony in all major Australian jurisdictions, as well as in Singapore, Hong Kong and Bermuda. Her expertise has been recognised with the title of ‘Forensic Accountant of the Year’ by Lexology in both 2021 and 2024.