Vice President
Kalinda
Cobby BA, LLB FCLA
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
David
O'Bryen B Ec, LLB FCLA
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
Richard
Porter FCA, FCPA, ACIS, AAIM, FCLA
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) FCLA
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 SF Fin FCLA
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 was a long time task force member for Finsia Education (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 FCLA
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 FCLA
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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Edmund
Finnane BA and LLB(ANU) LLM (Corporate & Commercial Law) UNSW
Edmund Finnane, Barrister-at-Law, was called to the NSW Bar on 14 February 1997 and has a wide ranging practice in Insolvency and corporate law; Equity; Commercial, Contract matters; Property (Relationships) Act and related remedies; Mortgage and Security Law and Trade Practices. He is a member of the Commercial Law Association of Australia and the NSW Bar Association and currently serves on the CLA’s Legislative Review Task Force. Edmund was appointed to the Board of Directors, Commercial Law Association of Australia on the 10 July 2009. His published works include Finnane, Newton, Wood, Equity Practice and Precedents, 2008, Thomson.
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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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