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Examine cross-border contracts and disputes including the legal risk, enforcement and the strategies you need. As global transactions grow in complexity, you must be equipped to navigate jurisdictional challenges, enforce judgments across borders and manage IP, privacy and dispute resolution in international contracts. Walk away with practical insights and drafting strategies from leading experts to help you advise confidently in cross-border matters and mitigate legal risk.

Presenters

Nicole Murdoch, Partner, Thynne + Macartney Lawyers
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 trademarks, 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 Trademarks 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.

Jennifer K Mee, Barrister, 6 St James Hall Chambersx
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.


Daniel Allman, Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright
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 Norton Rose Fulbright, 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.