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Catherine has had over 20 years experience as a lawyer in private practice. Her areas of expertise include trade practices, privacy, intellectual property and company law issues and in commercial property particularly retail and commercial leasing. She has been a preferred legal counsel for one of Australia’s largest private health insurers for many years. A large part of Catherine’s practice involves acting in relation to commercial contracts of all kinds, including drafting, reviewing and negotiating, and advising on interpretation and rights, obligations and remedies. These contracts include IT and other IP licences, terms of sale, service, agency and distribution agreements, and construction contracts. She also has experience in mergers and acquisitions, corporations law and corporate governance issues, corporate policy advice and restructuring of organisations, including reviewing and replacing company constitutions. Her work in the last 24 months has included preparation of tender documents for the sale of state owned businesses and land, the corporate restructuring of a golf course and country club development, policy development in health insurance, drafting and negotiation of supply agreements for goods and for services for a range of clients, preparation of joint venture documentation including shareholders agreements, review of and advice on IT agreements and electronic trading partner agreements in health and the building products industry, and resolution of domain name disputes. She is currently advising an internet product provider on corporate, IP, privacy and contractual issues pre-launch. Catherine has also acted for commercial research collaborators in negotiating and finalising collaboration agreements and in other aspects of IP management including IP management reviews, licensing and confidentiality, and trademark applications, infringements and dealings with trademarks. Catherine has an interest in medical ethics issues and is a member of Calvary Hospital’s Research and Ethics Committee. Catherine is a graduate in science (biochemistry) and law. Her range of clients includes large and small, listed and unlisted public companies, global companies, family businesses, partnerships and joint ventures, government and non-government organisations, sporting and charitable and non-profit organisations. |