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Chris was admitted to practice in 1982. He has over 20 years broad experience as a commercial lawyer, more than 13 of which was as a partner of one of Australia's largest law firms.
He has particular expertise in:
access regime enforcement and interpretation - Chris provided extensive advice to privatized energy utilities and to their regulator, the Essential Services Commission;
the interpretation and enforcement of complex project documentation - Chris acted for the State in relation to the City Link project;
finance -Chris acted for the financiers in the M2 tollway project and Loy Yang B;
capital markets' documentation -Chris acted for the issuer in a recent note issue in the USA and advised on the large scale securitization of a pool of trade receivables;
banking ;
swaps and derivatives -Chris documented a number of the swaps undertaken by a then leading gold producer and has prepared for a bank standard foreign currency swap and option documentation;
administrative law -Chris was for several years a principal legal adviser to a statutory authority and, in that capacity, advised on FOI, tort liability, trade practices liability, procedural fairness and related issues;
state taxation.
Chris has authored in excess of 20 publications and is a member of the Law Institute's financial services committee and of its state taxes committee.
Professional Standards Act 2003 [Vic] "Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation."
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