Justin joined PMC Legal as a consultant in 2019. Justin has over 25 years professional practice experience in the funds and financial services industries in Europe and Asia Pacific.
His practice focuses on structuring and executing transactions in the property industry. His experience is deep and broad, covering simple asset and share deals through to highly complex multi-jurisdictional leveraged transactions.
Justin advises trustees, managers and corporates on regulatory, compliance and governance matters and in practice has advised on, drafted, implemented, conducted due diligence and reported on policies and procedures both as external and as inhouse counsel to boards and management.
Justin’s experience was gained practising accounting, tax and law in private practices both domestically and overseas with top tier firms including PwC, Simmons & Simmons, Baker McKenzie and recently Withers. Justin has years of experience as an employed in-house corporate counsel to The Trust Company Limited (merged with Perpetual), an ASX listed financial intermediary.
With his strong combination of accounting, tax and legal experience and professional qualifications, Justin is particularly skilled at identifying and addressing relevant risks and finding practical commercial solutions to complex legal requirements.
His practice experience includes funds and trust structuring and investment, fund raising and debt capital markets, joint ventures and co-investment arrangements, mergers and acquisitions, reorganisations and restructures.
Justin is admitted to practice as a lawyer in New South Wales (Australia) and in England and Wales. Justin is also a chartered accountant with Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand, a chartered company secretary with Governance Institute of Australia and a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners.