A highly skilled commercial lawyer, with over 20 years’ experience spanning both private practice and in-house.

Nicholas commenced his career at Mallesons Stephens Jaques (now King & Wood Mallesons), widely regarded as Australia’s pre-eminent law firm. He spent 7 years at Mallesons, working in both the IT / IP and corporate departments. In 2009 he held the lead senior associate role on the Australian M&A Deal of Year – the merger between Lion Nathan and Kirin by scheme of arrangement.

Moving in-house, he has worked for a range of blue-chip organisations – SUEZ (French multinational), WiseTech Global and Macquarie Telecom.  

Nicholas covers a wide range of practices areas:

• General commercial work;
• Contract drafting and negotiation;
• Business sales and acquisitions;
• Business startup – advice on formation and structuring of business vehicles;
• Corporate governance;
• Technology related matters;
• Privacy / data protection;
• Waste industry matters;
• Intellectual property; and
• Dispute resolution.

Prior to a career in law, Nicholas worked as a software engineer, and so will bring a deep level of understanding and knowledge to technology-related matters.

Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation.