I advise government and corporate clients across education, infrastructure, energy and resources, and financial services industries on their most significant disputes — those that carry substantial financial, operational and reputational consequences. I bring clarity to complex legal, commercial and regulatory issues, providing strategic direction through disputes with the potential to cause reputational damage or materially affect business operations. My experience encompasses matters that test regulatory boundaries and require considered stakeholder management. 

I represent clients across all stages of complex litigation and in a full range of binding and non-binding dispute resolution processes including court proceedings, arbitration, adjudication, expert determination and bespoke contractual mechanisms. I also have experience acting for clients in contentious engagements with Commonwealth and State regulators. 

My approach is collaborative and solutions-focused. I work closely with clients to identify the underlying commercial drivers of disputes and develop purposeful strategies for their resolution. I regularly assist clients in resolving disputes without proceeding to costly and reputationally damaging court proceedings — deploying pre-litigation strategy, ADR processes and negotiated settlements to achieve early resolution and commercially sound outcomes. 

I previously served as the Associate to the Honourable Justice Margaret McMurdo AC, then President of the Queensland Court of Appeal. 

Career highlights

• ASIC: acting in relation to significant and high-profile investigations and civil penalty proceedings, including litigation in the Federal Court and the High Court of Australia 
• Global mining major: advising in relation to a high-value dispute concerning the application of Petroleum Resource Rent Tax arising from a joint venture
• The University of Queensland: acted for the University, the Chancellor and former Vice-Chancellor in high-profile litigation alleging civil conspiracy, negligence, defamation, breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty and deceit
• Queensland Government: acted for government departments in a confidential arbitration involving complicated and sensitive political issues
• Brisbane City Council: acted in relation to a series of complex IT disputes with TechnologyOne, a company contracted to supply, implement and support a cloud solution
• Wilmar International Limited: acted for a subsidiary in the first deemed arbitration with sugar growers under the controversial amendments to the Sugar Industry Act 1999 (Qld), securing an award that the provision compelling the parties to arbitration was beyond the legislative power of the Queensland Parliament and therefore unconstitutional
• Recognised in Doyle's Guide's Commercial Litigation & Dispute Resolution 'Rising Stars' lists in 2024 and 2025