Todd has practiced at the Bar for 30 years and as Senior Counsel since 2003. He is predominantly a trial advocate with extensive experience across all jurisdictions in all Superior Courts of Australia, with emphasis in equity and commercial law. He also appears regularly in the Court of Appeal, the Court of Criminal Appeal and […]
Commercial Arbitration
Michael Christie SC
Michael is a Senior Counsel practising primarily in commercial law. He has acted for major Australian and overseas corporations in a wide variety of matters, including a broad range of contractual disputes. He has an extensive practice in complex contractual disputes in the construction industry (including those involving large infrastructure projects and the mining and […]
Kristina Stern SC
Kristina graduated in law from Melbourne University (first class Honours) in 1987. She then worked as a solicitor before completing a PhD from Cambridge University and lecturing in law at King’s College and University College London. She spent ten years at the London Bar at 39 Essex Street, practising in both public and private law. […]
Matthew White SC
Matthew was called to the Bar in 1999 and appointed Senior Counsel in 2013. He was admitted as a solicitor in New South Wales in 1987. After obtaining a Bachelor of Civil Law at Oxford University in 1989 he practised as a solicitor for over 9 years with Minter Ellison, Phillips Fox and Rowe & […]
Michael O’Meara
Michael was called to the Bar in 2005. Prior to coming to the Bar he was a Senior Associate at Minter Ellison. Michael graduated from the Australian National University as a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) in 2000, winning the University Medal in Law and the Supreme Court Judges’ prize. He […]
David Thomas
David appears across Australia in complex commercial, corporate, revenue, trade practices and constitutional matters. He has appeared in High Court appeals in each of these areas. Clients for which David has acted include 20 banks in Australia’s largest commercial dispute (the Bell litigation), NAB in market misconduct proceedings concerning the Bank Bill Swap Rate, Woolworths […]
James Arnott
James joined the NSW Bar in 2008. James practises in all areas of commercial law, with a focus on large commercial disputes and class actions, competition and consumer law, corporations law, professional negligence and regulatory investigations (including by the ACCC and ASIC). Before coming to the Bar, James was a Senior Associate at Allens. James […]
Pouyan Afshar
Pouyan came to the Bar in 2012. He practised as a Senior Associate in the Dispute Resolution group at Baker & McKenzie and worked as a solicitor in the Dispute Resolution and Tax groups at Allens. As a solicitor, he practised primarily in commercial litigation, including large-scale litigation, in a wide range of industries and […]
Patrick Meagher
Patrick commenced practice at the Bar in 2014 after spending five years in New York as a commercial litigator at Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP. He is briefed in a broad range of commercial matters, and has appeared in the Federal Court, the NSW Supreme Court, and federal and state tribunals. Currently, he is junior […]
Brent Michael
Brent accepts briefs in commercial and public law matters. Before coming to the Bar in 2015, he practised in the litigation group at King & Wood Mallesons, where he acted in a diverse range of matters for private corporations, government entities and individuals. Prior to that he was an associate to Justice David Hodgson AO […]
Claire Palmer
Claire was admitted to practice in 2007 and called to the Bar in 2017. She accepts briefs in all areas, and has particular interests in constitutional, administrative, international and commercial law. Claire has a doctorate from the University of Oxford, which she attended on a Clarendon Scholarship. During her time at Oxford, Claire taught law […]










