Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD hour in Substantive Law
This program is based on NSW legislation
Chair
The Honourable Stephen Robb KC, 7 Wentworth Chambers
Navigating Property Transactions in Australia for Foreign Investors and Foreign Owned Entities
- Overview of FIRB as it relates to property transactions
- Registration of property transactions on the Register of Foreign Ownership of Australian Assets administered by the ATO
- Best practice when contracting with foreign counterparties
Presented by Marcus Clark, Partner, Johnson Winter Slattery – Canberra; Co-author, ‘Foreign Investment in Australia’ (Thomson Reuters); Deputy Chairman of the Foreign Investment Committee of the Business Law Section of the Law Council of Australia
Presenters
Marcus Clark, Partner, Johnson Winter Slattery – Canberra
Marcus Clark is a partner of Johnson Winter Slattery, based in Canberra. He has previously practised law in Bangkok, Gold Coast, Hong Kong, New York, Singapore and Sydney. Marcus is an author of Foreign Investment in Australia, published by Thomson Reuters, and serves as the Deputy Chairman of the Foreign Investment Committee of the Law Council of Australia
The Honourable Stephen Robb KC, 7 Wentworth Chambers
The Hon. Stephen Robb KC practices as a mediator and arbitrator and will make expert determinations in matters within his expertise. Formerly, he was a trial judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales between June 2013 and February 2024. He was appointed to the Equity Division and sat principally in General Equity, dealing with commercial and contract cases, real property, trusts and succession as well as corporations law matters. He was admitted to the NSW Bar in 1978 and appointed a Queens Counsel in 1992. He enjoyed an extensive commercial practice at the Bar, principally in the Supreme and Federal Courts, at trial and on appeal, and appeared in appeals to the High Court of Australia. He practised in commercial and equity matters, trade practices and consumer law, regulation, corporations, insolvency, trusts, insurance, professional negligence and some building and construction matters. Mr Robb is an associate member of Seven Wentworth Selborne Chambers.
