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Presenters

Ms. Alexandra Vost, Legal Optimisation Manager,
Alexandra is a Manager in MinterEllison's Legal Optimisation consultancy practice. With a depth of legal industry experience and a background as a client relationship management professional, she supports in house legal teams to develop creative solutions and transform the way they engage with their broader organisation. She has supported a number of in house legal teams in both the public and private sector to improve their processes, leverage technology to create efficiencies and adopt a client-centric approach to their own service delivery. She is an AgilePM Practitioner, Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt and certified Josef Chatbot Designer and Builder. Alex also has experience in client data management, including through use of platforms such as PowerBI and Tableau.


Daniel Gosewisch, General Counsel - Commercial and Legal Affairs, The WorkPac Group
Daniel Gosewisch, General Counsel, The WorkPac Group Daniel Gosewisch has spent 20 years in-house working across government, resources, retail, and general corporate sectors. He holds degrees in Law and Environmental Science from Griffith University, a Master of Laws from Queensland University of Technology, and is a Fellow of the Governance Institute. He joined WorkPac as General Counsel in May 2022 and also acts as Company Secretary. Daniel advises on commercial and legal matters across the labour hire, recruitment, training and services businesses operated by WorkPac. He also publishes regularly on associated legal topics (including as editor of lawofcontract.com.au) and undertakes pro bono work privately.


Kiri Parr, Director, Kiri Parr Consulting
Kiri is an academic, speaker and independent consultant in the construction industry in Australia. Her work sits at the intersection of construction law, procurement strategy, human behaviour and governance. As well as operating her own consultancy practice, Kiri is a Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne law school lecturing in the Construction Law Master’s program in two courses “Construction Project Delivery” and “Major Projects – the Legal Interfaces”. In industry Kiri is a member of the FIDIC Contracts Committee and is actively involved locally with Consult Australia, the Dispute Resolution Foundation and the Society of Construction Law Australia. Prior to establishing her own company in 2020, Kiri spent more than 20 years’ as a construction lawyer, initially in private practice and followed by 15 years as the Regional General Counsel for Arup, a large international professional consulting company. During this time, Kiri was involved in numerous large projects in the region including Airport Link, Gold Coast Light Rail and Marina Bay Sands. From 2015 to 2019 Kiri was included in Doyle’s Leading In-House Construction Lawyers in Australia. Kiri was on the board of Consult Australia, the industry body for consultants in the built environment for 6 years, and was President from 2017 to 2019.


Anthea Faherty, Principal, McInnesWilson Lawyers
Anthea is a corporate and commercial lawyer. Anthea has been practising for thirteen years, and heads up McInnes Wilson Lawyers’ not for profit, pro bono and corporate social responsibility areas. Anthea’s expertise includes advising clients on corporate and commercial law, mergers and acquisitions, capital raising, taxation controversy matters and corporate governance issues. Anthea has a particular interest in acting for not-for-profits and her experience including advising on matters relating to establishment and structuring and endorsements for not-for-profits, governance, risk management and director liability risks through to advising on and assisting organisations to regulatory investigations and audits. Anthea serves on a number of not-for-profit boards and committees.


Mark Anning, General Counsel and Company Secretary, Ellume
Well-rounded senior lawyer having practised at Partner level in private practice, and “in-house” at CEO direct report level for several ASX listed companies. Highly developed commercial skills, excellent negotiator and drafter, with a high level of business acumen, managerial and interpersonal capability. 25 plus years in legal practice with national law firms (including 10 years with Allens) and several S&P ASX listed companies. Specialise in corporate and commercial law, dispute resolution, risk management, and corporate governance.


Jeanette Jifkins, Principal Lawyer, Onyx Legal
Jeanette Jifkins is the Principal Lawyer of Onyx Online Law, an Australian based law firm with the focus of supporting businesses with an online presence. She has extensive experience with a broad variety of corporate and commercial issues including contracts, mergers and acquisitions, business structures, employment and governance. She has over eight years experience in private practice mainly in mid-tier and a a further 8 years in-house. She is currently working with tech start-up iComplii providing general counsel services. Jeanette also has a keen interest in psychological services and is Chair of On The Line Limited which provides MensLine and other counselling services, and a member of the Queensland Board of the Psychology Board of Australia, a Board of the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency.


Adelaide Hayes, Special Counsel, Cooper Grace Ward Lawyers
Adelaide is a special counsel in the corporate and commercial team with wide ranging experience in transactional and corporate advisory work such as complex mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance advice, shareholder issues and agreements and business sale and share sale transactions. Adelaide also regularly assists clients with matters related to competition and consumer laws and has extensive experience in delivering training to clients on these laws. Adelaide’s expertise also extends to advising on trade mark registration and protection, intellectual property ownership and licensing, technology matters, privacy and the establishment and operation of not-for-profit and charitable organisations (and related tax advice). Australasian Lawyers listed Adelaide as a Rising Star of 2020.


Rohen Cullen, Principal, Franklin Athanasellis Cullen
Rohen is consistently ranked as one of the leading lawyers in Queensland and Australia by both Doyles’ Guide to the Australian Legal Profession and the Australian Financial Review sponsored Best Lawyers Guide. Rohen has appeared in every edition of Best Lawyers since 2012, and was Best Lawyers' 'Lawyer of the Year' in Labour and Employment in Brisbane in 2013, 2017 and 2019. Rohen’s expertise spans all areas of employment law and industrial relations including industrial disputes, enterprise bargaining, industrial action, termination of employment, restructures and redundancies, discrimination, workplace investigations including Crime and Corruption Commission investigations and all aspects of executive employment. Rohen is an experienced litigator and has acted in significant, high profile litigation test-cases during his career, including in the High Court. He has successfully obtained orders to stop industrial action, defended adverse action and unfair dismissal claims, obtained and defended civil penalty orders and defended discrimination claims. Rohen’s long standing clients span the mining (coal and metalliferous), transport (and particularly rail), construction, gas, sugar, maritime, health and education industries. He also has considerable experience acting for State and Federal Governments and their various government owned enterprises


Murray Procter, Principal, Franklin Athanasellis Cullen
Murray is recognised as one of Queensland's leading employment, industrial relations and safety lawyers. Operating in the field since 1997, Murray has extensive experience advising leading Australian companies and government departments on industrial relations, workplace health and safety and employment law, including enterprise bargaining, individual engagement methods, anti-discrimination, termination of employment and dealing with ill and injured workers. He advises on workplace relations legislation in the private and public sectors, as well as employment contracts, privacy, protection of confidential information and restraint of trade. Other areas of expertise include restructuring and transfer of business issues, and executive remuneration., Murray is an advisor to the Queensland Government as a Board member of Workplace Health and Safety Queensland. He is consistently ranked by the Australian Financial Review's 'Best Lawyers', and by Doyle's Guide to the Australian Legal Profession, as a leading lawyer in the field


Rebecca Hoare, Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright Australia
Rebecca Hoare is an environment and planning lawyer based in Brisbane. Winner of the 2008 UDIA Women in Development Excellence Award for her achievement in environmental law, Rebecca's principal areas of expertise are environmental, climate change, native title, cultural heritage and planning law. Her deep interest in environmental law has led her to focus particularly on this area. Rebecca has undertaken complex environmental due diligence for many development, infrastructure and resources and energy clients. This work involves forensic analysis of legislation relevant to the client's business and identifying legal and commercial risks that could arise from the application of such legislation. Rebecca provides high level and detailed advice to clients during the start up phase of their project to ensure that all required environmental planning approvals are identified and obtained and other environment risks are managed. Environmental enforcement agencies are proving themselves more willing to investigate and enforce potential non-compliance. Rebecca has a great deal of experience in assisting clients and their staff during this often difficult time. Her relationships with the enforcement agencies allow her to work constructively with these agencies in the interests of the client. Rebecca has a particular interest in climate change. She assists clients to take advantage of business opportunities which arise out of the latest developments in this area.