Chair
Brenda Tronson, Barrister, Level 22 Chambers
Professional Skills
Due Diligence for Business and Property Purchases
- Inputs to due diligence planning including risk analysis
- Contracts conditional on due diligence or preliminary terms permitting due diligence
- The disclosure being fairly disclosed: case examples
- Example lists of issues for DD for business and property purchases
- A workshopped hypothetical
Presented by Selwyn Black, Partner, Carroll & O’Dea Lawyers; Accredited Specialist in Business Law
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD hour in Professional Skills
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Presenters
Selwyn Black, Partner, Carroll & O’Dea Lawyers
Selwyn Black is one of Australia’s most experienced commercial law partners. He has significant business acumen, enabling him to work together with clients to achieve practical solutions. Selwyn listens carefully to clients to get the best understanding of their business, industry and goals. This enables him to help clients succeed. Selwyn has particular expertise in the establishment, sale and/or purchase and restructuring of companies, trusts and businesses. He has worked in the pharmaceutical, food, media, IT, engineering and transport industries. Selwyn is also a determined advocate and strategist in any dispute including business, compliance and estate disputes. He has also provided legal advice to a range of property developers and investors and has undertaken an extensive range of projects involving hotels, shopping centres and offices. Selwyn closely understands the needs of not-for-profit organisations. He acts for 2 industry associations, and has carried out innovative restructures, managed acquisitions and other commercial complex arrangements. He also assists with fiduciary, disciplinary, compliance and outsourcing issues. Selwyn is on the board of St Vincent’s Curran Foundation, and carries out significant pro bono work for charities.
Brenda Tronson, Barrister, Level 22 Chambers
Brenda Tronson is an education focused Senior Lecturer and 2025 Nexus Fellow at UNSW Law and Justice and a barrister at Level 22 Chambers. As an academic, she primarily teaches ethics, and is currently leading an education research project. As a barrister, Brenda acts in matters concerning ethics, professional conduct and administrative law, advising and representing a range of clients in a variety of courts and tribunals. Before starting at the Bar in 2008, Brenda worked for Freehills in Sydney and as an associate to Justice Crennan in the High Court. She completed her undergraduate degrees at UNSW, where she won the university medal for Chemistry. She also holds a BCL (Dist) and MPhil in Law from Oxford University.
