Presenters

Angela Pearsall, Partner, Ashurst
Angela has extensive experience in dispute resolution and is widely recognised as one of the leading litigation lawyers in Australia. She specialises in large-scale commercial litigation and class actions, as well as contentious regulatory investigations and litigation. Angela regularly handles complex litigation, having acted for global accounting and auditing firms for more than a decade. She has led litigation including class actions arising out of major corporate collapses, IPOs, capital raisings, complex financial instruments and financial services' obligations. She regularly represents banks, large corporates, preeminent global accounting and auditing firms and directors. Chambers Asia Pacific describes her as “an absolute standout" and “she's commercial, knows her field well and knows her matters inside out.“

Jeremy Zimet, Principal Lawyer, Phi Finney McDonald
Jeremy is a highly experienced litigator, with a significant track record in commercial litigation and class actions. Jeremy specialises in shareholder and consumer law class actions and has had care and conduct of more than a dozen class actions across the Federal Court and Supreme Court jurisdictions, acting for thousands of claimants in complex, multi-party disputes. Jeremy is also a media and communications law expert, who has advised and acted for high profile individuals, government ministers, directors and companies throughout Australia, on matters relating to defamation/libel, reputational risk management, pre-publication advice and privacy law.


Greg Williams, Group Lead Partner, Clayton Utz
Greg Williams is an experienced practitioner with over 25 years’ experience in Australia's premier product regulatory practice. He has been involved in the defence of product liability claims and class actions involving pharmaceuticals and medical devices, financial services and automobiles. He has significant experience in running large complex matters to a contested hearing. He was a member of the team that defended the Australian Vioxx class action. He led the team which defended and ultimately settled the Australian Volkswagen diesel emissions class actions, as well as the team which defended and settled the Takata Airbag litigation against Subaru Australia. He acted for Bayer in the defence of the Australian Essure class action and was entirely successful in the first instance trial. He is currently involved in defending class actions in the automotive, medical device and financial services industries.