 Partner
BA, University of Queensland 1979
LLB, University of Queensland 1981
Grad Dip Legal Practice, Queensland University of Technology 1981
LLM, University of Queensland 1992
Registered Migration Agent (No 9475192)
Member of the Migration Institute of Australia
(Member No: 58)
Ph: 61 7 3292 9710
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Areas of practice
Contract law
Construction law
Project development including managed investment schemes
Corporate advice
Telecommunications
Experience
Robin has advised on all aspects of contract law for over 20 years - acting for Australian and international clients in the construction, mining, tourism, energy, property and telecommunications industries. He specialises in advising companies and joint venture partners on the most effective contract and financial arrangements to achieve business objectives, whilst minimising risks.
Corporate advice
- Providing advice to public and private company boards regarding openness of tendering, contracting, compliance with statutory requirements (including privacy issues) and directors' duties
- Structuring and undertaking due diligence for company prospectuses and project finance
- Developing standard contracts, joint venture agreements and management agreements for government, mining, construction and engineering clients. This includes developing contracts for of a coal processing plant in Indonesia and a nickel mine in New Caledonia
- Advising on intellectual property issues including advising a joint venture agreement with Queensland University of Technology and Sugar Research Institute
- Advising various engineers and architects about minimising risk in specific project contracts with consulting engineers.
Property
- Managing the conveyancing for the sale of three residential apartment complexes, Festival Towers, Southport Central and Charlotte Towers, to several hundred purchasers, based nationally and internationally
- Acting for K1 Holdings Pty Ltd in the development of two residential towers in Redcliffe including negotiating contracts, dealing with the financiers, establishing the body corporate and attending settlement
- Acting for Daikyo Australia Pty Ltd, the subsidiary of a Japanese developer, in its acquisition and construction of a number of hotel, apartment buildings and golf courses on the Gold Coast and in Cairns
- Advising on the development of a residential community on the Gold Coast for Hong Kong based investors
- Acting for of a Japanese developer, in its acquisition and construction of a number of hotel, apartment buildings and golf courses on the Gold Coast and in Cairns
- Acting for Vodafone regarding the implications of the Telecommunications Act, including issuing of notices for access and negotiating leases for construction of telecommunications facilities in Queensland
- Acting for private owners of commercial buildings and undertook duty and securities issues, facility agreements, multi-jurisdictional lending and preparing commercial space leases, fit out deeds, incentive agreements and other lease documentation, including negotiating leases with Government tenants.
Professional memberships and appointments
Australia China Business Council
Australia Japan Society - Queensland Inc
Australian Mining & Petroleum Law Association
Hong Kong-Australia Business Association
Infrastructure Association of Queensland
Inter-Pacific Bar Association (Former Chairman of International Construction Projects Committee, current Regional Coordinator for Asia and South America)
Migration Institute of Australia (Member No 58)
Queensland Korean Chamber of Commerce & Industry (President from 1997 - 2004)
Queensland Law Society
South Brisbane Immigration and Community Legal Service (Committee Member for 10 years)
Presentations and publications:
- "Supplier Agreements", presentation at the Television Education Network Conference, October 2007.
- "Going International - Export Advisory Training" Austrade, August 2007
- "Early Termination Rights" August 2007
- "Practical Contract Law", Voss Contracts presentation, March 2007
- "Australia/US Free Trade Agreement: Opportunities for Australian companies to tender for US Government contracts", presentation at Inter-Pacific Bar Association Conference in Sydney, May 2006
- "Issues to consider in Resort Hotel Development Projects", presentation at Inter-Pacific Bar Association Conference in Bali, April 2005
- Master of Laws Dissertation on Foreign Investment Law in Australia, University of Queensland.
- "The role of construction professionals", presentation at Inter-Pacific Bar Association conference, Auckland 1997
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