Seminar tomorrow: Doing Deals - roles of law graduates in commercial transactions

Published 16 Apr 2012, 2:09 pm, by Valerie Wong

Tuesday 17 April

1-2pm, GM17

This is an important seminar for those applying for clerkships this year!

Come to this seminar and pick up some useful information to impress your interviewers on your knowledge of what commercial lawyers do.

Facilitator: Andrew Godwin, Melbourne Law School

Some information below about our confirmed speakers:

Brett Todd, Partner, Tax Services - Mergers & Acquisitions, Deloitte

Brett is an M&A Tax Partner with 14 years experience in dealing with Australian taxation matters. He leads our M&A tax team in Melbourne and has extensive experience in advising on tax due diligences, private equity structures, cross border structuring, corporate restructures and inbound investment. His role at Deloitte is to provide specialist taxation advice on mergers and acquisitions, tax structuring issues, IPOs and private equity investments.

Brett also worked with JPMorgan Chase in London where he was involved in several large banking and financing projects.

Peter Stirling, Partner, Mallesons Stephen Jaques

Peter has been a corporate lawyer for over 15 years. During that time, he has worked in large national and international law firms both in Australia and overseas. Peter specialises in mergers and acquisitions and equity capital markets work. For the last eight years, he has been a partner of a large national firm leading a team of lawyers working for clients such as GE, ANZ Bank, BHP Billiton and ExxonMobil on a variety of domestic and cross border transactions. Peter has been recognised in Chambers and AsiaLaw for his work and was recently listed in the AFR list of Best Lawyers for 2012 in the M&A Category.

John Harrison, General Counsel, GE

John is the General Counsel for General Electric Australia and New Zealand. GE's global operations range from infrastructure to financial services and over the last 20 years it has made a number of significant acquisitions and dispositions in this region.

Prior to joining GE John was a senior lawyer at a major Australian bank and before that was in private practice.