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Verran	Fehlberg	
	
	
	
Name:	 	 Verran	Fehlberg	 Mobile:		 0412	171	910	
Address:	 9	Bellevue	Avenue,	Dalkeith	 Email:	 verranfehlberg@gmail.com	
	
	
Professional	Overview	
	
§ Executive	with	20	years’	experience	in	management	roles	in	governance,	risk	and	law;	including	two	stretches	as	
General	Counsel,	Company	Secretary	and	Chief	Risk	Officer	of	a	national	ASX-listed	company	with	revenues	of	$1.4b.		
§ Practised	in	first	tier	law	firms	in	Australia	and	Asia.			
§ Experienced	board	advisor	and	executive	committee	participant.	
§ Supervised	and	coordinated	various	sized	teams,	directly	of	around	20	people	(own	team),	and	indirectly	of	circa	80.	
§ Experienced	in	regulatory	liaison,	including	with	APRA	and	other	prudential	regulators,	at	holding	company	level	and	
in	ADI,	life,	health	and	insurance	businesses	–	as	well	as	in	aged	care,	retirement,	and	financial	services	sectors.	
§ Oversaw	team	involved	in	successful	tender	for,	and	deal	execution	of,	the	privatisation	of	all	of	the	NSW	
government’s	home	care	business;	a	$100m	plus	acquisition	that	settled	in	February	2016,	and	saw	the	acquisition	
of	50,000	NSW	home	care	clients,	and	4,000	staff	across	140	branches.	
§ Instrumental	in,	and	helped	steer,	the	issue	of	Australia’s	first	‘simple	corporate	bond’;	a	$250m	ASX-listed	bond,	
that	was	joint	winner	(together	with	Apple’s	$2.2bn	‘Kangaroo	bond’)	of	Finance	Asia’s	‘Best	Local	Deal	of	2015’.	
	
Industry	networks,	board	appointments	&	community	positions	
§ Prior	Company	Secretary	for	Australian	Centre	For	Health	Research.	
§ Involvement	in	school	networks	for	3	young	children:		Orange	Nassau	School;	The	Hague	(Netherlands),	Australian	
International	School	(Singapore),	and	Dalkeith	Primary	School	(Perth).	
§ Fundraising	&	charity	involvement	with	FairShare,	Guide	Dogs	Australia,	and	other	community/school	programs.	
	
	
Qualifications	&	Certifications	
	
§ Bachelor	of	Law	–	Adelaide	University	(1991-1994)	–	admitted	to	practice	in	relevant	Australian	jurisdictions	
§ Bachelor	of	Economics	(Accounting)	–	Flinders	University	(1990-1994)	
§ Graduate	Certificate	in	Business	Administration	(certificate	level	in	MBA	course)	–	RMIT	(2007-2008)		
	
	
Career	Overview	
	
§ 02/2014	–	02/2016	 	 General	Counsel,	Company	Secretary,	and	CRO	 Australian	Unity		
§ 06/2012	–	09/2013	 	 Senior	Legal	Counsel	 	 	 	 AdventBalance	Lawyers	(Singapore)	
§ 02/2006	–	02/2009			 General	Counsel	and	Company	Secretary	 Australian	Unity	
§ 08/2000	–	02/2006	 	 Head	of	Legal,	and	other	legal/co	sec	roles	 Australian	Unity	
§ 01/2000	–	07/2000	 	 Corporate	Counsel	 	 	 	 Colonial	First	State	(secondment)	
§ 03/1996	–	01/2000	 		 Legal	roles	in	various	Australian	law	firms	 Minters,	Freehills,	Ashurst
Employment	History	
02/2014	–	02/2016	 	 Australian	Unity	
	 	 	 	 General	Counsel,	Company	Secretary	and	Chief	Risk	Officer	
Australian	Unity	is	a	mutual	company	with	300,000	members,	and	with	ASX-listed	bonds	on	issue	($250m),	with	
operations	throughout	Australia,	and	Hong	Kong.		The	company	has	annual	revenues	of	$1.4bn,	6,500	staff,	and	reaches	
around	1	million	customers,	through	its	businesses	aimed	at	solving	the	social	infrastructure	challenges	associated	with	
health,	ageing	and	chronic	disease.		These	include	business	operating	in	the	aged	care	and	retirement	living	sectors	
(developer/operator	of	aged	care	facilities	with	2,500+	beds,	with	a	$500m	development	pipeline	-	as	well	as	retirement	
communities,	and	a	large	home	care	business),	in	financial	services	(life,	ADI,	unit	trusts,	financial	planning	and	adjunct	
businesses	–	over	$7bn	funds	under	management,	and	$6bn	funds	under	advice),	private	health	insurance	(retail	and	
corporate	funds,	with	over	200,000	members),	and	an	emerging	trustee	business	to	service	‘middle	Australia’.		The	
company	is	APRA	regulated	at	4	levels;	in	the	holding	company,	and	in	the	life,	ADI	and	PHI	businesses.		
		
Position	Summary	
Oversaw	all	governance,	risk,	legal	and	company	secretarial	functions	and	teams	in	the	company,	reporting	to	the	CEO,	
with	joint	accountability	to	the	Chairman	and	board.		Directly	oversaw	20	employees	in	my	own	team,	and	around	80	in	
the	broader	governance	community	for	which	I	was	responsible.		During	the	two	stints	I	had	with	the	company	(totalling	
10	years),	revenues	increased	from	less	than	$250m,	to	around	$1.4bn,	and	the	business	was	substantially	re-balanced	
away	from	over-reliance	on	PHI,	towards	aged	care,	retirement	living	and	a	suite	of	financial	and	high-trust	services.	
	
Key	Responsibilities:	
§ Responsible	for	all	risk	management	functions	and	staff	in	the	company.	
§ Led	the	company	secretarial	team,	participated	in	all	board	and	senior	management	meetings;	member	of	ExCo.	
§ Trusted	advisor	to	the	CEO,	and	to	the	Chairman	and	board.	
§ Over	15	years,	recruited,	retained	and	developed	many	of	the	senior	legal,	risk	and	governance	staff	in	the	company.	
§ Responsible	for	development,	implementation	and	operation	of	the	risk	management	framework,	and	keeping	
framework	current	for	standards	required	by	prudential	regulators.	Co-ordinated	all	senior	APRA	engagement.	
§ Heavily	involved	in	numerous	M&As	over	15	years.		Mergers	included	with	Grand	United,	Lifeplan	Australia,	and	Big	
Sky	Building	Society	(formerly	BHP	and	BP	credit	union).		Acquisitions	include	the	NSW	Home	Care	business	($114m	
price,	4,000	staff,	50,000	customers),	a	trustee-services	business	(Flinders	Australia)	and	a	large	number	of	financial	
services,	health	and	allied-health	entities.		Sales	included	a	general	insurance	business,	and	a	pharmacies	division.	
§ Key	role	in	ensuring	the	board	“ran	on	rails”,	and	governance	processes	always	support	informed	decision-making.	
§ Manage,	and	successfully	resolved,	a	number	of	major	litigations	and	disputes	–	both	as	defendant	and	claimant.	
§ Assisted	the	Chairman	in	structured	board	renewal,	including	inducting/introducing	new	directors	to	the	company.	
§ Participated	in	all	elements	of	strategy-setting	for	the	company	over	time,	at	both	executive	and	board	level;	the	
broad	sweep	of	which	has	been	aimed	at	rebalancing	the	company’s	revenues	away	from	traditional	health	
insurance	(with	high	exposure	to	sovereign	risk),	towards	businesses	geared	towards	ageing	and	retirement.	
§ Responsible	for	direct	team	budget	of	$4m	per	annum,	together	with	external	provider	spend	(legal,	risk,	
compliance)	of	around	$10m	for	the	most	recent	year.		
§ Relocated	to	Perth	in	July	2015,	and	at	the	request	of	the	company,	continued	to	work	(remotely	and	traveling)	
through	to	Feb	2016,	in	order	to	allow	time	for	recruitment	of	qualified	successor,	and	handover	–	now	completed.	
	
Key	Achievements:	
§ Long-term	role	in	development	of	enterprise	from	$250m	revenue	p.a,	to	$1.4bn;	with	healthy	portfolio	rebalancing.	
§ Developed	and	maintained	positive	relationship	at	all	levels:	team,	peers,	CEO,	chair,	board	and	regulators.
11/2012	–	09/2013	 	 AdventBalance,	Singapore	
	 	 	 	 Senior	Legal	Counsel	
AdventBalance	is	a	legal	services	firm	operating	in	Australia,	Asia,	and	now	Europe.		Principally	the	firm	operates	on	a	
secondment	basis,	providing	legal	personnel/teams	for	short,	medium	and	long-term	placements	with	corporates	for	
specialist	roles/projects,	for	backfill,	peak	demand	(eg	M&A	projects)	or	other	needs.	
	
Position	Summary	
One	long-term	secondment	at	AdventBalance,	to	Chandler	Corporation	(a	global	private	investment	firm	with	investable	
assets	of	several	billion	dollars),	to	assist	with	managing	an	arbitration	over	a	failed	retail	and	residential	development	in	
Saigon,	Vietnam	(‘The	Vista’);	Chandler	Corporation	was	the	investor,	in	dispute	with	the	builder.	
	
Key	Responsibilities:	
§ Managed	lengthy	and	involved	internal	discovery	process,	dealing	with	senior	stakeholders,	including	all	relevant	
executives.		Managed	interface	with	the	external	legals,	Norton	Rose.		
§ Kept	senior	management	advised	of	key	findings	during	discovery	process,	and	worked	through	implications	for	
running	of	the	matter.	
Key	Achievements:	
§ Developed	a	trusted	advisor	relationship	with	senior	management.	
§ Ran	matter	effectively	and	efficiently.	
§ Helped	strengthen	bonds	between	my	firm	(AdventBalance)	and	its	client.	
	
Note:			
§ In	mid	2013,	our	family	decided	to	move	back	to	Melbourne,	to	support	my	wife’s	career	with	a	global	miner.		On	
our	return	to	Melbourne,	I	was	asked	to	return	to	my	previous	role	at	Australian	Unity,	which	I	did.			
§ Between	early	2009	and	mid	2012	(most	of	which	time	our	family	lived	in	Holland)	I	was	largely	“home	dad”	for	our	
3	young	children;	to	support	our	family,	and	my	wife’s	executive	career.	
	
	
08/2000	–	02/2009	 	 Australian	Unity		
	 General	Counsel	and	Company	Secretary	(from	2007)	
Prior	to	2007,	various	more	junior	legal	and	company	secretarial	roles	
Company	description	as	above.		At	the	time	of	joining,	the	company	had	revenues	of	circa	$250m,	primarily	in	private	
health	insurance,	and	with	other	sub-scale	operations	in	pharmacies,	general	insurance	and	traditional	life	insurance	
bonds.		At	the	time	of	leaving,	the	company	was	substantially	larger	in	scale,	with	a	healthy	re-balanced	portfolio.	
	
Position	Summary	
Commenced	in	2000	as	Corporate	Solicitor.		Promoted	to	Head	of	Legal	Services	in	2005.	Promoted	to	General	Counsel	
and	Company	Secretary	in	2007.	
	
Key	Responsibilities	and	Achievements	
§ Largely	as	above.		Developing	relationships	of	trust	and	confidence	with	multiple	CEOs,	Chairmen,	directors,	peers,	
team	members,	and	throughout	the	company,	is	my	main	point	of	pride.
01/2000	–	07/2000	 	 Colonial	First	State,	Sydney	
	 	 	 	 Corporate	Counsel	(Secondment)	
Colonial	First	State	was	at	that	time	a	listed	fund	manager,	of	significant	scale,	and	I	was	seconded	to	CFS	from	Minter	
Ellison	lawyers.		CFS	was	acquired	by	CBA	during	the	period	of	the	secondment.	
	
Position	Summary	
Tasked	to	migrate	various	property	funds	(with	several	billion	dollars	of	property	assets)	onto	the	new	managed	
investment	scheme	legislation;	the	principal	change	in	which	was	the	new	role	of	the	custodian,	and	the	redefined	the	
role	of	the	responsible	entity.	
	
Key	Responsibilities	and	Achievements	
§ Tendered	the	legal	services,	chose	an	external,	and	ran	the	transition	process	effectively	-	in	the	face	of	a	significant	
degree	of	noise,	including	dealing	with	many	transactions	“in	progress”	over	the	course	of	the	transition,	which	
added	significantly	to	complexity.	
§ Developed	relationship	of	trust	and	confidence	with	senior	management,	including	General	Counsel	of	CFS,	who	
asked	if	I	would	stay	on	as	Deputy	GC.		I	needed	to	decline;	as	the	role	was	in	Sydney,	and	I	then	lived	in	Melbourne.	
§ Helped	strengthen	bonds	between	my	firm	(Minter	Ellison)	and	its	client.	
	
	
06/1998	–	07/2000	 	 Minter	Ellison,	Melbourne	
	 	 	 	 Legal	Counsel		
Minter	Ellison	is	a	full-service	law	firm	operating	primarily	in	Australia,	and	within	Asia.	
	
Position	Summary	
Property	lawyer	–	acting	on	all	forms	of	property	transactions:	due	diligence,	sales,	acquisitions,	leases,	and	licences	
among	others.		Moved	to	Minters	as	part	of	a	large	team,	from	Freehills.	
	
Key	Responsibilities	and	Achievements	
§ Major	transactions	included	various	lease	arrangements	for	initial	set-up	of	Docklands	stadium,	acting	on	a	number	
of	sale-and	leasebacks	for	Woolworths,	with	the	expansion	of	its	Marketplace	concept	at	the	time.		Acted	on	the	
sale	of	some	major	office	buildings	on	St	Kilda	Road	and	Collins	Street.	
§ Developed	relationship	of	trust	and	confidence	with	partners	and	peers	at	Minter	Ellison,	and	established	numerous	
career-long	relationships.	
§ I	was	‘stale’	in	my	career	as	a	property	lawyer,	and	looking	for	new	challenges	towards	the	end	of	this	period.		
Minters	was	good	enough	to	assist	me	with	a	secondment	(to	CFS),	which	allowed	me	to	broaden	my	skills,	and	later	
approach	the	market	for	much	broader	corporate	and	commercial	legal	roles.
06/1997	–	06/1998	 	 Herbert	Smith	Freehills,	Melbourne	
	 	 	 	 Legal	Counsel		
Herbert	Smith	Freehills	is	a	full-service	law	firm,	previously	known	as	‘Freehill,	Hollingdale	and	Page’,	and	then	operating	
principally	in	Australia.	
	
Position	Summary	
Property	lawyer	–	acting	on	all	forms	of	property	transactions:	due	diligence,	sales,	acquisitions,	leases,	and	licences	
among	others.			
	
Key	Responsibilities	and	Achievements	
§ Major	transactions	included	due	diligence	and	transaction	work	as	part	of	the	gas	privatisation	process	then	
underway	in	Victoria.		Other	work	included	acting	on	the	sale	of	office	buildings	on	St	Kilda	Road	and	Collins	Street,	
and	in	Melbourne’s	inner	East.	
§ Developed	relationship	of	trust	and	confidence	with	clients,	and	with	partners	and	peers	at	Freehills;	which	led	to	
me	leaving	with	a	large	team	to	Minters,	as	part	of	a	bulking	up	of	the	Minters	property	and	planning	team.		
	
02/1996	–	06/1997	 	 Ashurst,	Canberra	
	 	 	 	 Legal	Counsel		
Ashurst	is	a	full-service	law	firm,	previously	known	as	‘Blake	Dawson	Waldron’,	and	then	operating	primarily	in	Australia.	
	
Position	Summary	
Property	lawyer	–	acting	on	all	forms	of	property	transactions:	due	diligence,	sales,	acquisitions,	leases,	and	licences	
among	others.		Most	work	was	in	support	a	push	by	the	firm	into	the	commonwealth	government	legal	market,	which	at	
that	time	was	being	opened	up	to	competition	from	private	practice	(previously	being	a	government	monopoly).	
	
Key	Responsibilities	and	Achievements	
§ Major	transactions	included	due	diligence	and	transaction	work	as	part	of	the	privatisation	process	for	the	Federal	
Government’s	extensive	property	portfolio,	held	at	the	time	in	the	Department	of	Administrative	Services;	this	
process	involved	substantial	innovation	in	establishing	a	legal	mechanism	for	the	Commonwealth	to	sell	this	land.		
§ Other	work	included	a	residential	conveyancing	practice,	and	substantial	sales/purchases	of	commercial	property.	
§ Developed	relationship	of	trust	and	confidence	with	partners	and	peers	at	Blakes.	
§ Left	due	to	an	offer	to	work	with	an	iconic	partner	at	Freehills,	and	to	pursue	a	life	and	career	in	Melbourne.	
	
	
Personal	Attributes	
§ People-focused,	with	a	friendly	demeanour	–	a	relationship	builder.		A	rigorous	and	fair	broker,	with	an	
understanding	that	terrain	is	often	contested	legitimately.	
§ Decisive,	accountable,	able	to	lead	large	and	diverse	teams	and	drive	change,	able	to	handle	large	amounts	of	
complexity	and	ambiguity.	
§ Our	family	has	enjoyed	travelled	extensively,	living	at	times	in	Holland,	Singapore,	Melbourne	and	now	Perth	–	
where	we	have	permanently	relocated	for	my	wife’s	work	with	a	newly	listed	major	Australian	miner.		
	
	
Referees	
§ Referee	details	are	available	upon	request.

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  • 1. Verran Fehlberg Name: Verran Fehlberg Mobile: 0412 171 910 Address: 9 Bellevue Avenue, Dalkeith Email: verranfehlberg@gmail.com Professional Overview § Executive with 20 years’ experience in management roles in governance, risk and law; including two stretches as General Counsel, Company Secretary and Chief Risk Officer of a national ASX-listed company with revenues of $1.4b. § Practised in first tier law firms in Australia and Asia. § Experienced board advisor and executive committee participant. § Supervised and coordinated various sized teams, directly of around 20 people (own team), and indirectly of circa 80. § Experienced in regulatory liaison, including with APRA and other prudential regulators, at holding company level and in ADI, life, health and insurance businesses – as well as in aged care, retirement, and financial services sectors. § Oversaw team involved in successful tender for, and deal execution of, the privatisation of all of the NSW government’s home care business; a $100m plus acquisition that settled in February 2016, and saw the acquisition of 50,000 NSW home care clients, and 4,000 staff across 140 branches. § Instrumental in, and helped steer, the issue of Australia’s first ‘simple corporate bond’; a $250m ASX-listed bond, that was joint winner (together with Apple’s $2.2bn ‘Kangaroo bond’) of Finance Asia’s ‘Best Local Deal of 2015’. Industry networks, board appointments & community positions § Prior Company Secretary for Australian Centre For Health Research. § Involvement in school networks for 3 young children: Orange Nassau School; The Hague (Netherlands), Australian International School (Singapore), and Dalkeith Primary School (Perth). § Fundraising & charity involvement with FairShare, Guide Dogs Australia, and other community/school programs. Qualifications & Certifications § Bachelor of Law – Adelaide University (1991-1994) – admitted to practice in relevant Australian jurisdictions § Bachelor of Economics (Accounting) – Flinders University (1990-1994) § Graduate Certificate in Business Administration (certificate level in MBA course) – RMIT (2007-2008) Career Overview § 02/2014 – 02/2016 General Counsel, Company Secretary, and CRO Australian Unity § 06/2012 – 09/2013 Senior Legal Counsel AdventBalance Lawyers (Singapore) § 02/2006 – 02/2009 General Counsel and Company Secretary Australian Unity § 08/2000 – 02/2006 Head of Legal, and other legal/co sec roles Australian Unity § 01/2000 – 07/2000 Corporate Counsel Colonial First State (secondment) § 03/1996 – 01/2000 Legal roles in various Australian law firms Minters, Freehills, Ashurst
  • 2. Employment History 02/2014 – 02/2016 Australian Unity General Counsel, Company Secretary and Chief Risk Officer Australian Unity is a mutual company with 300,000 members, and with ASX-listed bonds on issue ($250m), with operations throughout Australia, and Hong Kong. The company has annual revenues of $1.4bn, 6,500 staff, and reaches around 1 million customers, through its businesses aimed at solving the social infrastructure challenges associated with health, ageing and chronic disease. These include business operating in the aged care and retirement living sectors (developer/operator of aged care facilities with 2,500+ beds, with a $500m development pipeline - as well as retirement communities, and a large home care business), in financial services (life, ADI, unit trusts, financial planning and adjunct businesses – over $7bn funds under management, and $6bn funds under advice), private health insurance (retail and corporate funds, with over 200,000 members), and an emerging trustee business to service ‘middle Australia’. The company is APRA regulated at 4 levels; in the holding company, and in the life, ADI and PHI businesses. Position Summary Oversaw all governance, risk, legal and company secretarial functions and teams in the company, reporting to the CEO, with joint accountability to the Chairman and board. Directly oversaw 20 employees in my own team, and around 80 in the broader governance community for which I was responsible. During the two stints I had with the company (totalling 10 years), revenues increased from less than $250m, to around $1.4bn, and the business was substantially re-balanced away from over-reliance on PHI, towards aged care, retirement living and a suite of financial and high-trust services. Key Responsibilities: § Responsible for all risk management functions and staff in the company. § Led the company secretarial team, participated in all board and senior management meetings; member of ExCo. § Trusted advisor to the CEO, and to the Chairman and board. § Over 15 years, recruited, retained and developed many of the senior legal, risk and governance staff in the company. § Responsible for development, implementation and operation of the risk management framework, and keeping framework current for standards required by prudential regulators. Co-ordinated all senior APRA engagement. § Heavily involved in numerous M&As over 15 years. Mergers included with Grand United, Lifeplan Australia, and Big Sky Building Society (formerly BHP and BP credit union). Acquisitions include the NSW Home Care business ($114m price, 4,000 staff, 50,000 customers), a trustee-services business (Flinders Australia) and a large number of financial services, health and allied-health entities. Sales included a general insurance business, and a pharmacies division. § Key role in ensuring the board “ran on rails”, and governance processes always support informed decision-making. § Manage, and successfully resolved, a number of major litigations and disputes – both as defendant and claimant. § Assisted the Chairman in structured board renewal, including inducting/introducing new directors to the company. § Participated in all elements of strategy-setting for the company over time, at both executive and board level; the broad sweep of which has been aimed at rebalancing the company’s revenues away from traditional health insurance (with high exposure to sovereign risk), towards businesses geared towards ageing and retirement. § Responsible for direct team budget of $4m per annum, together with external provider spend (legal, risk, compliance) of around $10m for the most recent year. § Relocated to Perth in July 2015, and at the request of the company, continued to work (remotely and traveling) through to Feb 2016, in order to allow time for recruitment of qualified successor, and handover – now completed. Key Achievements: § Long-term role in development of enterprise from $250m revenue p.a, to $1.4bn; with healthy portfolio rebalancing. § Developed and maintained positive relationship at all levels: team, peers, CEO, chair, board and regulators.
  • 3. 11/2012 – 09/2013 AdventBalance, Singapore Senior Legal Counsel AdventBalance is a legal services firm operating in Australia, Asia, and now Europe. Principally the firm operates on a secondment basis, providing legal personnel/teams for short, medium and long-term placements with corporates for specialist roles/projects, for backfill, peak demand (eg M&A projects) or other needs. Position Summary One long-term secondment at AdventBalance, to Chandler Corporation (a global private investment firm with investable assets of several billion dollars), to assist with managing an arbitration over a failed retail and residential development in Saigon, Vietnam (‘The Vista’); Chandler Corporation was the investor, in dispute with the builder. Key Responsibilities: § Managed lengthy and involved internal discovery process, dealing with senior stakeholders, including all relevant executives. Managed interface with the external legals, Norton Rose. § Kept senior management advised of key findings during discovery process, and worked through implications for running of the matter. Key Achievements: § Developed a trusted advisor relationship with senior management. § Ran matter effectively and efficiently. § Helped strengthen bonds between my firm (AdventBalance) and its client. Note: § In mid 2013, our family decided to move back to Melbourne, to support my wife’s career with a global miner. On our return to Melbourne, I was asked to return to my previous role at Australian Unity, which I did. § Between early 2009 and mid 2012 (most of which time our family lived in Holland) I was largely “home dad” for our 3 young children; to support our family, and my wife’s executive career. 08/2000 – 02/2009 Australian Unity General Counsel and Company Secretary (from 2007) Prior to 2007, various more junior legal and company secretarial roles Company description as above. At the time of joining, the company had revenues of circa $250m, primarily in private health insurance, and with other sub-scale operations in pharmacies, general insurance and traditional life insurance bonds. At the time of leaving, the company was substantially larger in scale, with a healthy re-balanced portfolio. Position Summary Commenced in 2000 as Corporate Solicitor. Promoted to Head of Legal Services in 2005. Promoted to General Counsel and Company Secretary in 2007. Key Responsibilities and Achievements § Largely as above. Developing relationships of trust and confidence with multiple CEOs, Chairmen, directors, peers, team members, and throughout the company, is my main point of pride.
  • 4. 01/2000 – 07/2000 Colonial First State, Sydney Corporate Counsel (Secondment) Colonial First State was at that time a listed fund manager, of significant scale, and I was seconded to CFS from Minter Ellison lawyers. CFS was acquired by CBA during the period of the secondment. Position Summary Tasked to migrate various property funds (with several billion dollars of property assets) onto the new managed investment scheme legislation; the principal change in which was the new role of the custodian, and the redefined the role of the responsible entity. Key Responsibilities and Achievements § Tendered the legal services, chose an external, and ran the transition process effectively - in the face of a significant degree of noise, including dealing with many transactions “in progress” over the course of the transition, which added significantly to complexity. § Developed relationship of trust and confidence with senior management, including General Counsel of CFS, who asked if I would stay on as Deputy GC. I needed to decline; as the role was in Sydney, and I then lived in Melbourne. § Helped strengthen bonds between my firm (Minter Ellison) and its client. 06/1998 – 07/2000 Minter Ellison, Melbourne Legal Counsel Minter Ellison is a full-service law firm operating primarily in Australia, and within Asia. Position Summary Property lawyer – acting on all forms of property transactions: due diligence, sales, acquisitions, leases, and licences among others. Moved to Minters as part of a large team, from Freehills. Key Responsibilities and Achievements § Major transactions included various lease arrangements for initial set-up of Docklands stadium, acting on a number of sale-and leasebacks for Woolworths, with the expansion of its Marketplace concept at the time. Acted on the sale of some major office buildings on St Kilda Road and Collins Street. § Developed relationship of trust and confidence with partners and peers at Minter Ellison, and established numerous career-long relationships. § I was ‘stale’ in my career as a property lawyer, and looking for new challenges towards the end of this period. Minters was good enough to assist me with a secondment (to CFS), which allowed me to broaden my skills, and later approach the market for much broader corporate and commercial legal roles.
  • 5. 06/1997 – 06/1998 Herbert Smith Freehills, Melbourne Legal Counsel Herbert Smith Freehills is a full-service law firm, previously known as ‘Freehill, Hollingdale and Page’, and then operating principally in Australia. Position Summary Property lawyer – acting on all forms of property transactions: due diligence, sales, acquisitions, leases, and licences among others. Key Responsibilities and Achievements § Major transactions included due diligence and transaction work as part of the gas privatisation process then underway in Victoria. Other work included acting on the sale of office buildings on St Kilda Road and Collins Street, and in Melbourne’s inner East. § Developed relationship of trust and confidence with clients, and with partners and peers at Freehills; which led to me leaving with a large team to Minters, as part of a bulking up of the Minters property and planning team. 02/1996 – 06/1997 Ashurst, Canberra Legal Counsel Ashurst is a full-service law firm, previously known as ‘Blake Dawson Waldron’, and then operating primarily in Australia. Position Summary Property lawyer – acting on all forms of property transactions: due diligence, sales, acquisitions, leases, and licences among others. Most work was in support a push by the firm into the commonwealth government legal market, which at that time was being opened up to competition from private practice (previously being a government monopoly). Key Responsibilities and Achievements § Major transactions included due diligence and transaction work as part of the privatisation process for the Federal Government’s extensive property portfolio, held at the time in the Department of Administrative Services; this process involved substantial innovation in establishing a legal mechanism for the Commonwealth to sell this land. § Other work included a residential conveyancing practice, and substantial sales/purchases of commercial property. § Developed relationship of trust and confidence with partners and peers at Blakes. § Left due to an offer to work with an iconic partner at Freehills, and to pursue a life and career in Melbourne. Personal Attributes § People-focused, with a friendly demeanour – a relationship builder. A rigorous and fair broker, with an understanding that terrain is often contested legitimately. § Decisive, accountable, able to lead large and diverse teams and drive change, able to handle large amounts of complexity and ambiguity. § Our family has enjoyed travelled extensively, living at times in Holland, Singapore, Melbourne and now Perth – where we have permanently relocated for my wife’s work with a newly listed major Australian miner. Referees § Referee details are available upon request.