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 About Us > Board of Directors
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President
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Stephen Lamy BA LLM
Stephen became President of the CLA in February, 2006. He was admitted as solicitor
in NSW 1974 and England and Wales 1979. He had a variety of private practice involving
commercial and revenue work before moving to corporate law in 1990. Stephen's
corporate career has included roles with AMP and St George Bank and from 2002 with
CBA. He has had 17 years in funds management with emphasis on superannuation. Stephen
has a strong interest in legal education and developments in areas outside of his
specialisation. Stephen joined the CLA's board of directors in August 2002.
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Vice President
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Kalinda Cobby BA, LLB
Kalinda Cobby graduated in Arts/Law from the University of New South Wales. Kalinda
joined Hicksons Lawyers in 2006 as a Partner and is a former Partner Lane &
Lane. She practices in various areas of commercial law, (including Corporations
Act, compliance, shareholder and unit holder agreements, director's duties,
franchising) and property law (including conveyancing, leasing, community state
and company title, rural and Crown land. Kalinda is a former member of the Advisory
council to the Minister for Fair Trading and of the Law Society's Business Law
Committee. She is proud of her involvement with a number of charitable organisations.
Kalinda currently serves as the CLA's Vice President and New Graduates Program
Chair.
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Treasurer
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David O'Bryen B Ec, LLB
David is a solicitor specializing in financial services and commercial law generally.
Prior to going into private practice, David was Legal Counsel with the Promina insurance
and financial services group for over 14 years. He has had over 25 years experience
in commercial law including corporations, securities, superannuation and funds management.
David also has experience in advising on acquisitions, mergers and other financial
services projects. Prior to his appointment to the Promina Group he was a Senior
Manager in the Legal Division of Westpac Banking Corporation. David is a Director
and Honorary Treasurer of the CLA. He initially became involved with the Association
through his Chairmanship of the Legislative Review Committee and he became a Councillor
in 1989. David is the Associations longest serving Director.
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Directors
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Dr. John Keogh LLB SJD
Dr Keogh was the President of the CLA from February 2001 to February 2006. During
2002 he re-established the Association's Legislative Review Task Force and is
the LRTF's current deputy chair. John was called to the NSW Bar in 1990 and
has a wide-ranging practice in property, planning and environmental law and commercial
matters. He is also an ADR specialist holding appointments to a number of jurisdictions
and panels. John's practice at the Bar has been augmented by his interest in
academic matters. From 1992-2002 he lectured in the property economics program (BCom)
at UTS, presented the Law & Management series for MGSM during 2001 and also
presented the Commercial Arbitration (Domestic) postgraduate course for UTS in 2001.
He has chaired the Law Alumni foundation and was its inaugural chair from 1999 to
2007.
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Richard Porter FCA, FCPA, ACIS, AAIM
Richard Porter is a Corporate Recovery and Litigation Partner in the Chartered Accountancy
firm of Moore Stephens. He is a Fellow of the institute of Chartered Accountants
in Australia(F.C.A), Associate of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries and Administrators(A.C.I.S),
Fellow of the Australian Society of Accountants(F.C.P.A) and Associate of the Australian
Institute of Management. Richard is also a Registered Official Liquidator, Tax Agent
and Real Estate Agent. Richard's main professional areas of interest are corporate
recovery and litigation. He was appointed as a Director of the Commercial Law Association
in 2003 and is currently serving on the Publications Committee.
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Jenny Wily LLB (Hons) BCL (Hons)
Jenny has recently commenced practice on her own account at Wily Legal and Consulting
Pty Limited, having formerly been a Partner with Deacons for a number of years.
In her current practice, Jenny provides legal and consulting services primarily
in the areas of funds management, AFS licensing, compliance and corporate structuring
and governance. In addition to being a Director of the Commercial Law Association,
Jenny is also on the board of a number of public companies that provide financial
services.
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Anthony J Dreise Dip Law F Fin
Tony is a consultant lawyer in private practice specialising in financial markets
regulation and the financial services legislation. He was admitted to practice in
1977. For many years he was General Counsel of the Sydney Futures Exchange (now
part of ASX). Prior to joining the futures exchange, Tony held senior legal positions
with the NSW Corporate Affairs Commission (now ASIC). He is a long time task force
member for Finsia Education/Kaplan (previously the Securities Institute of Australia)
in its financial markets courses and has lectured on financial market and regulatory
topics. He is the Chairman of the Legislative Review Task Force of the CLA and is
a longstanding member of the Association.
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Stephen P McMahon B Comm, CA F Fin
Stephen is a Chartered Accountant and a fellow of the Financial Services Institute
of Australia (Finsia). He is a founding principal of McMahon Worth Forensic Accountants.
His firm specialises in forensic and investigative accounting, litigation support,
investigating and solving complex financial and business issues which require the
application of a combination of accounting and detective skills. Stephen's interests
are in the Commercial Law and Finance sectors. He was appointed as a Director to
Council in 1998 and currently serves as the Membership Chairman.
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Jane Ann Gray
Jane Ann Gray is Special Counsel within the Corporate Advisory, M & A and Equity
Capital Markets group at Chang, Pistilli & Simmons. She was admitted as a solicitor
in NSW in 1979. She practised for 20 years as a corporate and commercial partner
first at Baker & McKenzie then at Atanskovic Hartnell, KPMG Legal and Middletons
before joining CP&S in July 2006. Jane Ann's principal areas of practice are mergers
and acquisitions including under Chapter 6 of the Corporate Act; business structuring
and restructuring including schemes of arrangement; capital raisings; corporate
regulation including for listed entities; and the legal aspects of the tax consolidations
regime, in particular, tax sharing and funding arrangements.
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Norman Donato
Norman is a partner in the Corporate & Commercial Group of the firm of Makinson
& d'Apice Lawyers. He has practised since his admission in 1987 and his qualifications
include Bachelor degrees in Laws and Economics, as well as a Master in Laws. Norman
has extensive corporate and finance experience obtained from advising national and
international clients including government bodies, major banks, public companies,
SMEs and entrepreneurs. He has presented many papers on corporate finance, ecommerce,
IT and IP issues at various industry conferences. Prior to joining the firm, Norman
was the national practice leader for the Ecommerce and Intellectual Property group
of a national law firm. Norman's clients range across a number of industries, but
he has specialist knowledge of the finance, retailing and media industries and is
associated with a number of industry bodies. Norman is the Secretary of the Legislative
Review Task Force and was appointed to the board in May 2008.
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Max Wilson Chief Executive Officer
Max Wilson joined the Association as Chief Executive Officer September 2000. He
is a Graduate of Macquarie University, and the Commonwealth ASIA Pacific Centre,
India. He was awarded a Graduate Certificate in Management Communication in June
2001. Max is an associate Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management and a
member of the Australian Society of Association Executives, the Public Relations
Institute of Australia, and the Australian Marketing Institute.
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