Family law financial settlements are becoming increasingly complex. Strengthen your ability to manage the most complex of financial settlement matters with confidence. You’ll gain practical strategies for dealing with overseas assets and cross-jurisdictional disputes, navigating capacity issues, death and substitute decision-makers, challenging business and corporate valuations and protecting your client’s position when bankruptcy affects the asset pool. Gain guidance from leading experts and strategic insights to better equip you to achieve effective outcomes in high-value and technically demanding matters. 

Presenters

Daniela Naidenov, Associate Director, Kerrs Law
Daniela is an Associate Director at Kerrs, specializing in personal insolvency and family law with over 19 years of experience in insolvency and litigation disputes. She brings a wealth of knowledge from her successful tenure operating her own law firm to her current role. Daniela's expertise lies in the nuanced intersection between bankruptcy and family law, as well as property matters such as partition orders for trustees Australia-wide. She is highly regarded among bankruptcy trustees for her pragmatic yet decisive approach. With a focus on representing trustees in bankruptcy, liquidators, trustees for sale, court-appointed receivers, secured creditors, and bankrupts, Daniela is known for her ability to efficiently and cost-effectively bring closure to legal matters. She holds a New South Wales solicitor's admission and is a professional member of Australian Restructuring Insolvency & Turnaround Association (ARITA) and a member of the International Association of Restructuring, Insolvency & Bankruptcy Professionals (INSOL). Additionally, Daniela is certified as a mental health first aider by Mental Health First Aid Australia and is skilled in mediation. Outside of her legal practice, Daniela is deeply committed to mental health advocacy, serving as a speaker and ambassador for Beyondblue. This commitment translates into her legal work, where she adopts a tailored approach to address not only the technical legal aspects but also the mental health concerns of involved parties. Her multifaceted expertise and dedication to both her clients and broader community make her a highly respected professional in her field.


Charlotte Symes, Partner, Lander & Rogers
Charlotte is dual qualified to advise on Australian and English family law. She is a lawyer, mediator and collaborative practitioner, assisting clients who face complex financial, property and parenting issues arising from separation and divorce. After a decade at top tier London firm, Family Law in Partnership, Charlotte joined Pearson Emerson, bringing a wealth of international experience. Charlotte enjoys the variety that being both a family lawyer and mediator brings to her practice and strongly believes these skillsets complement each other. As a family lawyer, she advises clients in contested court proceedings as well as through amicable negotiations. As a family mediator she works with couples to reach agreements with mediation taking place either alongside or outside of the court process.

Bronia Tulloch, Barrister, Foley’s List
Bronia was admitted to practice in 1996 and joined the Bar in 1998. Bronia’s areas of experience include residence and contact, contravention proceedings, child support, property (including de facto relationships), child and spousal maintenance, intervention orders, enforcement proceedings and costs disputes. She has a particular interest in relocation cases, financial matters which involve family businesses and appeals. She appears regularly in Federal Circuit Court, the Family Court and the Full Court sitting in Melbourne, on circuit and interstate. Bronia is also available for paperwork and advice in all areas of family law, including the preparation of written submissions and Notices of Appeal. Bronia is frequently briefed as a mediator and on behalf of a party in mediations and settlement negotiations.

Kirrilly Waring, Partner, Valuations & Forensic Accounting, Hall Chadwick
Kirrilly Waring is a Chartered Accountant with over 25 years of specialised experience in valuations and forensic accounting across a broad range of industries and legal contexts. Kirrilly began her career in audit and assurance at Arthur Andersen before moving into forensic accounting at Horwath (NSW) Pty Ltd, focusing on economic loss reports for personal injury and dust disease matters. For over two decades, Kirrilly worked with the specialist valuations firm Lonergan Edwards & Associates Limited, collaborating closely with Wayne Lonergan, a respected authority in Australian business valuations. In 2024, Kirrilly joined Hall Chadwick’s Forensic division in the Sydney office, contributing her expertise in the areas of; Valuations for matters in dispute, such as shareholder disputes and oppression, contractual fallouts, family law settlements and compulsory acquisitions; Quantification of damages and consequential loss for matters relating to institutional abuse, insurance litigation and personal injury, commercial litigation, workplace disputes and class actions; Fraud investigations and reporting; and Investigations, accounts reviews and discovery projects on an ad-hoc basis for the in-house Insolvency division.